I have my entire music library on an external hard drive, but iTunes is not able to find any of the songs there. I do not want to reimport them all if I don't have to (and I really do not want to have to find them one by one). I've tried under Edit:Preferences:Advanced:General to set the iTunes Music folder location to the hard drive Music folder directly, but that hasn't worked.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

thank you.

You could click on the file that all your music is in and drag it to iTunes or go to the Advanced tab and hit the key that says consolidate library.

Lothan said:

Thanks for the suggestions, Lothan
I tried dragging the files from the hard drive to iTunes, but it added them as new songs, it did not update the path from the originally downloaded songs.
I saw the consolidate library function, but I assumed it would copy it all to the C: drive, not the external hard drive. I'm holding it as a later option.

i thought there wqas something that asked if you wanted itunes to find all music available on you computer and add it to itunes

horatio said:

When you first boot up iTunes, it asks that question but, I learned last week that it doesn't take all your music and adds it.

Lothan said:

maybe throw out itunes application and re dowload it?

horatio said:

I just ended up dragging my music files there.

Lothan said:

oh, yeah

horatio said:

thanks, a friend & I talked about that and we figured that would delete any Playlists or history. I'm trying to avoid that if possible.

candyperfume said:

well yeah, but it doesnt deleat your music files from your drive