Where do I put the iTunes folders?

I've got my iTunes folders backed up on an external hard drive. I want to
put it all on my new computer but don't know where to copy it to. Some
places I try that seem likely just give me the old "access denied" box & I
can't find how to change that either -- I keep getting an error on changing
the access.

(moving from XP, which is no longer available to me, to Win7-64bit)

I've looked back through some of the messages on the general "access denied"
topic & either I'm missing something or my eyes have completely glazed over
by this time. I seem to have gotten everything in "documents" relocated but
can't figure out the iTunes problem. (I really don't want to have to
"import" everything into iTunes -- not just a lot of individual items &
folders but I'd lose the playlists too.)
Thanks for any help.
bj

In article , bjones44
@bellatlantic.net says...

I've got my iTunes folders backed up on an external hard drive. I want to
put it all on my new computer but don't know where to copy it to. Some
places I try that seem likely just give me the old "access denied" box & I
can't find how to change that either -- I keep getting an error on changing
the access.

Where are you trying to put it? Why not create a folder off the root
called "iTunes Music", then copy the files there?

If you are the only one to use it, you can put it in your own Music
folder.

If you want it usable by all, put it in one of the Public folders.


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On 21 Apr 2011, "bj" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I've got my iTunes folders backed up on an external hard drive. I
want to put it all on my new computer but don't know where to copy
it to. Some places I try that seem likely just give me the old
"access denied" box & I can't find how to change that either -- I
keep getting an error on changing the access.

Maybe this will answer your question:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1364

Thank you, that does look promising.
bj

"Nil" wrote in message ...

On 21 Apr 2011, "bj" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I've got my iTunes folders backed up on an external hard drive. I
want to put it all on my new computer but don't know where to copy
it to. Some places I try that seem likely just give me the old
"access denied" box & I can't find how to change that either -- I
keep getting an error on changing the access.

Maybe this will answer your question:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1364

"bj" wrote in message
...
I've got my iTunes folders backed up on an external hard drive. I want to
put it all on my new computer but don't know where to copy it to. Some
places I try that seem likely just give me the old "access denied" box & I
can't find how to change that either -- I keep getting an error on
changing
the access.

(moving from XP, which is no longer available to me, to Win7-64bit)

I've looked back through some of the messages on the general "access
denied"
topic & either I'm missing something or my eyes have completely glazed
over
by this time. I seem to have gotten everything in "documents" relocated
but
can't figure out the iTunes problem. (I really don't want to have to
"import" everything into iTunes -- not just a lot of individual items &
folders but I'd lose the playlists too.)
Thanks for any help.
bj

Mine is here from a default install:
C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes

On 22/04/2011 04:17, KCB wrote:


Mine is here from a default install:
C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes

Think you'll find that's the PROGRAM files and not the actual music files...

I tried all the various suggested methods.
The Apple article was very clear, it just didn't work at least not for me.
I did what it said to do and...nothing happened, or it missed
a bunch of stuff (I tried more than once.)

So I went the Brute Force Method (which actually took less time than trying
all the "quick & easy" approaches) & have been importing folders & files
into iTunes, changing media types where the attributes got lost in
transition, & so on. OK, it took a long time to do the imports (since I was
also copying to my media directory from where the files had been stored)
but I didn't have to sit there watching it (& got some overdue
office-clearing done while I monitored the situation!)

I'd like to import my old playlists -- does anyone know where they are? or
what the filenames might look like? anything?

Not that rebuilding them is all bad -- getting things arranged as I want
them now, rather than changing & adjusting from all the old list. Rethinking
it all & doing some necessary housekeeping. At least I don't have to worry
about ratings & last-played, as I never use them.
bj

"bj" wrote in message ...

Thank you, that does look promising.
bj

"Nil" wrote in message ...

On 21 Apr 2011, "bj" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I've got my iTunes folders backed up on an external hard drive. I
want to put it all on my new computer but don't know where to copy
it to. Some places I try that seem likely just give me the old
"access denied" box & I can't find how to change that either -- I
keep getting an error on changing the access.

Maybe this will answer your question:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1364

On 23 Apr 2011, "bj" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I'd like to import my old playlists -- does anyone know where they
are? or what the filenames might look like? anything?

I went through a similar exercise after I posted the link to Apple's
instructions. I had built a new computer for a friend and installed a
fresh copy of iTunes on it. Then I copied all his music files from his
old XP computer to the new Windows 7 computer and told iTunes where
they were. iTunes then made a new Library out of them.

Then I shut down iTunes and copied two files from the old machine:
"iTunes Library.itl" and "iTunes Music Library.xml" and replaced the
versions on the new machine (after making a backup of the originals.)
All his playlists, statistics, and ratings reappeared.

On 4/23/2011, Nil posted:
On 23 Apr 2011, "bj" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I'd like to import my old playlists -- does anyone know where they
are? or what the filenames might look like? anything?

I went through a similar exercise after I posted the link to Apple's
instructions. I had built a new computer for a friend and installed a
fresh copy of iTunes on it. Then I copied all his music files from his
old XP computer to the new Windows 7 computer and told iTunes where
they were. iTunes then made a new Library out of them.

Then I shut down iTunes and copied two files from the old machine:
"iTunes Library.itl" and "iTunes Music Library.xml" and replaced the
versions on the new machine (after making a backup of the originals.)
All his playlists, statistics, and ratings reappeared.

Thanks! Excellent timing - this is my day to import iTunes files...

I'll try your method and report later.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 23 Apr 2011, Gene E. Bloch wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

On 4/23/2011, Nil posted:
I went through a similar exercise after I posted the link to
Apple's instructions. I had built a new computer for a friend and
installed a fresh copy of iTunes on it. Then I copied all his
music files from his old XP computer to the new Windows 7
computer and told iTunes where they were. iTunes then made a new
Library out of them.

Then I shut down iTunes and copied two files from the old
machine: "iTunes Library.itl" and "iTunes Music Library.xml" and
replaced the versions on the new machine (after making a backup
of the originals.) All his playlists, statistics, and ratings
reappeared.

Thanks! Excellent timing - this is my day to import iTunes
files...

I'll try your method and report later.

Don't forget this most important four little disclaiming words...

"Your Mileage May Vary"!

On 4/23/2011, Nil posted:
On 23 Apr 2011, Gene E. Bloch wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

On 4/23/2011, Nil posted:
I went through a similar exercise after I posted the link to
Apple's instructions. I had built a new computer for a friend and
installed a fresh copy of iTunes on it. Then I copied all his
music files from his old XP computer to the new Windows 7
computer and told iTunes where they were. iTunes then made a new
Library out of them.

Then I shut down iTunes and copied two files from the old
machine: "iTunes Library.itl" and "iTunes Music Library.xml" and
replaced the versions on the new machine (after making a backup
of the originals.) All his playlists, statistics, and ratings
reappeared.

Thanks! Excellent timing - this is my day to import iTunes
files...

I'll try your method and report later.

Don't forget this most important four little disclaiming words...

"Your Mileage May Vary"!

It looks like my mileage didn't vary...

It's already done (just 10 minutes ago), and that was after I spent 15
minutes figuring out where things were and realizing I had to alter the
setup, mostly in order to copy the data to this new computer instead of
leaving it on the old one; I used a clone backup drive, rather than
copying over the LAN.

Again, thanks. It was easy enough. Under 40 minutes for arond 21.5GB of
stuff.

Well, I haven't played anything yet. I'll try that first.

OK - I'm listening to Dies Irae from "Ego sum Resurrectio - Gregorian
chant for the dead", anonymous from (I'm guessing) around the XIIth
century, from my playlist "Dies Irae". Sounds great!

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 4/23/2011, Gene E. Bloch posted:
On 4/23/2011, Nil posted:
On 23 Apr 2011, Gene E. Bloch wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

On 4/23/2011, Nil posted:
I went through a similar exercise after I posted the link to
Apple's instructions. I had built a new computer for a friend and
installed a fresh copy of iTunes on it. Then I copied all his
music files from his old XP computer to the new Windows 7
computer and told iTunes where they were. iTunes then made a new
Library out of them.

Then I shut down iTunes and copied two files from the old
machine: "iTunes Library.itl" and "iTunes Music Library.xml" and
replaced the versions on the new machine (after making a backup
of the originals.) All his playlists, statistics, and ratings
reappeared.

Thanks! Excellent timing - this is my day to import iTunes
files...

I'll try your method and report later.

Don't forget this most important four little disclaiming words...

"Your Mileage May Vary"!

It looks like my mileage didn't vary...

It's already done (just 10 minutes ago), and that was after I spent 15
minutes figuring out where things were and realizing I had to alter the
setup, mostly in order to copy the data to this new computer instead of
leaving it on the old one; I used a clone backup drive, rather than copying
over the LAN.

Again, thanks. It was easy enough. Under 40 minutes for arond 21.5GB of
stuff.

Well, I haven't played anything yet. I'll try that first.

OK - I'm listening to Dies Irae from "Ego sum Resurrectio - Gregorian chant
for the dead", anonymous from (I'm guessing) around the XIIth century, from
my playlist "Dies Irae". Sounds great!

Then I connected the iPod...

A hundred songs could not be copied to the iPod because they couldn't
be found - and there's no way I have found (yet) to copy the list.

No - I did find a way. The window could be expanded, and the snip tool
did the rest (except I think I lost part of it due to a mis-click).

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 4/23/2011, Gene E. Bloch posted:
On 4/23/2011, Gene E. Bloch posted:
On 4/23/2011, Nil posted:
On 23 Apr 2011, Gene E. Bloch wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

On 4/23/2011, Nil posted:
I went through a similar exercise after I posted the link to
Apple's instructions. I had built a new computer for a friend and
installed a fresh copy of iTunes on it. Then I copied all his
music files from his old XP computer to the new Windows 7
computer and told iTunes where they were. iTunes then made a new
Library out of them.

Then I shut down iTunes and copied two files from the old
machine: "iTunes Library.itl" and "iTunes Music Library.xml" and
replaced the versions on the new machine (after making a backup
of the originals.) All his playlists, statistics, and ratings
reappeared.

Thanks! Excellent timing - this is my day to import iTunes
files...

I'll try your method and report later.

Don't forget this most important four little disclaiming words...

"Your Mileage May Vary"!

It looks like my mileage didn't vary...

It's already done (just 10 minutes ago), and that was after I spent 15
minutes figuring out where things were and realizing I had to alter the
setup, mostly in order to copy the data to this new computer instead of
leaving it on the old one; I used a clone backup drive, rather than copying
over the LAN.

Again, thanks. It was easy enough. Under 40 minutes for arond 21.5GB of
stuff.

Well, I haven't played anything yet. I'll try that first.

OK - I'm listening to Dies Irae from "Ego sum Resurrectio - Gregorian chant
for the dead", anonymous from (I'm guessing) around the XIIth century, from
my playlist "Dies Irae". Sounds great!

Then I connected the iPod...

A hundred songs could not be copied to the iPod because they couldn't be
found - and there's no way I have found (yet) to copy the list.

No - I did find a way. The window could be expanded, and the snip tool did
the rest (except I think I lost part of it due to a mis-click).

Well, it tunes out that I didn't lose any part of the list, but oddly
enough, all of the songs exist on the iPod and in the iTunes files on
the computer. They represent part or all of the tunes on eight albums.

Apple.com Help, here I come :-)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 4/23/2011, Gene E. Bloch posted:
On 4/23/2011, Gene E. Bloch posted:
On 4/23/2011, Gene E. Bloch posted:
On 4/23/2011, Nil posted:
On 23 Apr 2011, Gene E. Bloch wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

On 4/23/2011, Nil posted:
I went through a similar exercise after I posted the link to
Apple's instructions. I had built a new computer for a friend and
installed a fresh copy of iTunes on it. Then I copied all his
music files from his old XP computer to the new Windows 7
computer and told iTunes where they were. iTunes then made a new
Library out of them.

Then I shut down iTunes and copied two files from the old
machine: "iTunes Library.itl" and "iTunes Music Library.xml" and
replaced the versions on the new machine (after making a backup
of the originals.) All his playlists, statistics, and ratings
reappeared.

Thanks! Excellent timing - this is my day to import iTunes
files...

I'll try your method and report later.

Don't forget this most important four little disclaiming words...

"Your Mileage May Vary"!

It looks like my mileage didn't vary...

It's already done (just 10 minutes ago), and that was after I spent 15
minutes figuring out where things were and realizing I had to alter the
setup, mostly in order to copy the data to this new computer instead of
leaving it on the old one; I used a clone backup drive, rather than
copying over the LAN.

Again, thanks. It was easy enough. Under 40 minutes for arond 21.5GB of
stuff.

Well, I haven't played anything yet. I'll try that first.

OK - I'm listening to Dies Irae from "Ego sum Resurrectio - Gregorian
chant for the dead", anonymous from (I'm guessing) around the XIIth
century, from my playlist "Dies Irae". Sounds great!

Then I connected the iPod...

A hundred songs could not be copied to the iPod because they couldn't be
found - and there's no way I have found (yet) to copy the list.

No - I did find a way. The window could be expanded, and the snip tool did
the rest (except I think I lost part of it due to a mis-click).

Well, it tunes out that I didn't lose any part of the list, but oddly enough,
all of the songs exist on the iPod and in the iTunes files on the computer.
They represent part or all of the tunes on eight albums.

Apple.com Help, here I come :-)

Actually, the tunes are *not* present on the hard drive, but they are
in the display in the iTunes window.

They were somehow lost from the hard drive on the old computer (or
before), but remain on the iPod from before that loss, and also remain
listed in the library database.

So now I need to find them or upload them from the iPod...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 23 Apr 2011, Gene E. Bloch wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

Actually, the tunes are *not* present on the hard drive, but they
are in the display in the iTunes window.

They were somehow lost from the hard drive on the old computer (or
before), but remain on the iPod from before that loss, and also
remain listed in the library database.

Actually, I forgot to mention one step I took. The last step was that I
selected all the songs in the iTunes library, then right-clicked on the
selection, and chose Get Info. That scanned the whole list of songs,
and indicated any that weren't present (there were just a couple in
this case.)

In your case, no knowing the history behind it, if some files were lost
on the original hard disk but they are still present on the iPod *DO
NOT* sync the iPod to the computer - it will erase them from the iPod
forever. If the only copy of those files is on the iPod, there are ways
to copy them off the iPod before syncing. You could then put them back
among the rest of the audio files in your iPod library, THEN sync. I'd
have to check out how to do it, though, I don't remember at the moment.
I'm not really well-versed in the ways of Apple.