[macfantn]

to make a long story short I f'ed up transferring my library to an external 80 gig drive, and deleted half of my library. Anyway is there a way to export a playlist of about 2600 songs to a new folder on my external drive?

[macfantn]

the 2600 songs are mixed among stuff I don't want. Otherwise I'd just copy the itunes library folder. Thanks in advance

[Krusty]

What do you want to transfer ? The literal playlist (the list of songs ?) or the 2600 songs themselves? If you want to export the actual songs, you can just have them all in a playlist, chose Edit->Select All, and then drag and drop them to where you want them.

[macfantn]

Thanks, it is the actual songs I want to transfer. I am basically clearing out my itunes and starting fresh, with a new ibook and usb 2.0 external drive.

[macfantn]

i tried command-a to select all, and tried to drag them into a new folder and nothing happened. I tried doing one at a time though and it seemed to work, but there is no way I can sit there and do that 2600 times. Any suggestions?

[analogika]

Actually, Cmd-a and dragging them *should* work, though you might have to wait a while before the machine reacts (that's a lot of files!).

Alternately, you could just use shift-click to select, say, the first 100 files, drag those out, then the next 100, etc. Might be easier for your machine to handle.

[Krusty]

good point analogika ... 2600 songs is probably somewhere north of 10 gigabytes of data ... dragging and dropping that amount in one fell swoop is probably quite a chunk for the OS to bite off all at once.