"Why does Matthew always cry?" "Because he always pushes buttons, and they have sharp corners."

[chicafrom3]

I have a new external hard drive! Thank you, eBay. This one's 500GB (in theory, 465GB in practice), so it should last me a good while (in theory).

It does however raise two questions, which I am thus passing on to you guys. Because I'm lazy that way.

1) New EHD needs a name. Previous EHDs are named Barbara and Toshiko, if that provides a guide. (iPod is named Martha. Laptop is named Sally. Sally is not named after Sally Sparrow, but aside from that, yes, it's probably the naming scheme you're thinking of.) Any suggestions?

2) What's the easiest way to transfer my iTunes library from internal hard drive to external without losing things like play counts? Anyone know?

But aside from that, I'm just excited to have storage space again. <3 <3 <3

Comments

[riviyan-questa.livejournal.com]

Yay for external hard drives! I just got one (for my birthday, which is in a month) from my parents. It's a terabyte, so I'm rather hoping it lasts awhile. LOL

I'm not sure how to transfer your iTunes library, though. I just leave the music for my iPod on my internal drive, since there's definitely enough space for it.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

I've got two 350gb externals, both of which were basically full. I'm working on transferring stuff to the new one to free up some space. I have major...space needs, right? LULZ. :D

My music library is about 60gbs right now. My internal drive can handle it? but I'd rather put it on an external now that I've got the space, to free up my laptop and hopefully make it work a little faster. If that makes sense. But not if it means losing my playcounts. I don't know, we'll see how it plays out.

[riviyan-questa.livejournal.com]

How many GB is your iPod? You could just leave the things that are on your iPod on the internal drive. I don't know about playcounts, though. I don't really pay attention to it.

What if you move your music to the external drive and leave iTunes where it is?

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Martha's 8gbs, which is a drop in the bucket of my library, even if I didn't regularly change up what I put on there. :/

What if you move your music to the external drive and leave iTunes where it is?

Sort of the plan, I just want iTunes to be able to recognize that my music has been moved to the external.

[riviyan-questa.livejournal.com]

I would think it should recognise that the music has been moved... but I'm not sure.

My iPod is 16 GB and I've only used up about 4 GB of it, so clearly I don't hoard music like you. XP

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

so clearly I don't hoard music like you.

That's probably a good thing! My ridiculous amounts of music is just...ridiculous. And unwieldy. And hard to backup. XD

Also I am jealous of your 16GB iPod. *nods*

[riviyan-questa.livejournal.com]

I just upgraded from a 4 GB, so most of the music I would want isn't on my computer anyway... I would burn things to CDs (or buy them), but I download a lot more now.

[ninja-headcrab.livejournal.com]

Thanks to you and your icon, I can't watch DN9 without giggles any more :D

<3

[riviyan-questa.livejournal.com]

XD

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure this is the link I followed and used when I first moved my iTunes library to my external.

Tips:

1) I know you know this, but BACK IT UP FIRST. On DVDs.

2) After it's moved to your external: If you ever unplug your external, and then open iTunes before you plug it back in, go to "Music", then the iTunes Folder, and then delete the folder labeled "iTunes Music" (or relabel it as something else); otherwise iTunes will get confused and won't know where your music is, because you'll have a folder on your HD and your EHD with the same name.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

...~60 gigs of music. That's, like, 12+ DVDs.

...sometimes I am reminded of why my packrat ways of collecting music are maybe not such a great thing.

(But, yes. Always a good thing to do. Will do.)

Good link, thank you! That will be very helpful. <3

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

What's great about iTunes is that after you do your ginormous initial backup, any subsequent backup only backs up what you've added SINCE the previous one. :D

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

BTW, I don't know if I lost my playcounts or not when I transferred it... not sure about that part. All my playlists remained, so I assume the other information would as well?

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

I guess we'll find out when I try it, won't we? *is nervous*

[snarkaddict.livejournal.com]

Oooo... Call it the Tardis, because it's bigger on the inside! ;)

And YAY for more storage space. But my 1TB external hard disk is a weakling that spoils after it's kicked lightly to the ground. Mofo! Grrrrr...

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Good suggestion! XD

Oh, that's sad! That makes me sad. :( My externals are pretty resilient. They'd have to be, to put up with me and my abuse.

[ninja-headcrab.livejournal.com]

I have found Lexa Doig porn... lots of it...

*cries at rule 34* Why internet?


Also, I love external drives... just got a terabyte one which is HUGE compared to my 130GB drives (but SLOWWWWWWW).

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Rule 34, man. We may not like it but it's there. :/

(but SLOWWWWWWW).

I know! Why is that? My 500gb seems ridiculously slow next to my 350gbs. :/ Is there an inverse proportion of storage space to speed or something?

[ninja-headcrab.livejournal.com]

I'll get back to you on that but your essentially correct.

Thought I'd bring this little snippet to you.

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Shyamalan is a racist in the same way as Russell T. Davies is dude.

No concrete proof and not someone you'd expect to be racist but 'odd' things keep creeping up that make you go 'hmmmm... k, that's a bit iffy maybe?'.

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[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that makes a painful amount of sense. It's not blatant, but it's...repetitive and icky and leaves you feeling unclean. :/