External hard drive shows up in iTunes but tracks don't show up...?

#1

Hi everyone :slight_smile:

Iā€™ve read a bunch of the messages about connecting iTunes to run off an external hard drive, but havenā€™t had any luck resolving my problemā€¦ To be fair though Iā€™m not that familiar/comfortable with a lot of programming terms so I may have missed something that was includedā€¦

I have an LG netbook with Windows XP Home and iTunes (updated to the latest version yesterday) and a My Book Live 2 TB external hard driveā€¦ In simple terms, I want to store/run iTunes off of the external hard drive and use my netbook or iTouch to listen to musicā€¦

I followed Appleā€™s instructions for moving iTunes to another drive - I consolidated the files, checked the box for keeping the files organized, changed the location for iTunes Media folder location to my external hard drive (when I ā€˜Get Infoā€™ for the tracks iTunes it shows them in the external hard drive), then deleted the original iTunes Media folderā€¦ My Book Live shows up in iTunes, but does not list any tracksā€¦ I moved all of my iTunes (tv, music, ringtones, etc) to a folder I created in the external hard drive called iTunesā€¦ I did move the music from iTunes to the Shared Music folder on the external hard drive, but neither location shows the tracks in iTunesā€¦

Itā€™s probably obvious that Iā€™m not strong at this sort of thing, I usually try a few things until I get it to workā€¦ With the size of iTunes though trying/moving things takes hours and Iā€™m hoping someone can give me some feedback on what Iā€™m doing wrong or forgetting to do :slight_smile:

Thanks in advance for any help or pointers :slight_smile:

#2

Did you turn ON MEDIA SERVING for that new share you created?

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#3

Hi,

I didnā€™t create a new share - I intended to have the iTunes accessible to everyone so had left just the Public share that was already thereā€¦ I will create a new share and see if that helpsā€¦ The only way I know of to access the dashboard (think thatā€™s the correct name) is to type ā€œmybookliveā€ in the address bar, but it doesnā€™t always openā€¦ Iā€™ll try setting up the new share once I can access it :slight_smile:

Thanks for the suggestion - fingers crossed itā€™ll work :slight_smile:

#4

It worked! - sort of :slight_smile: I have tracks showing up in iTunes under the shared/external drive but not all of the tracks are thereā€¦ I consolidated/moved all of iTunes at the same time and they all show up in the same folder in the external hard drive, but only 288 of the 700 tracks are showing up in iTunesā€¦ When I ā€˜Get Infoā€™ for the missing tracks it says itā€™s not found, offers to locate them, and locates them in the external hard drive folder next to the tracks that are showing upā€¦ Think this is an iTunes thing thoughā€¦ Can I just confirm that it is so I donā€™t keep bugging people on here about my hard drive :smiley:

Thanks :slight_smile:

#5

It does take a little while for files to show up in the index. Ā Ā