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[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

[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