"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

[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