[reemas]

i tried dumping all my music files into one folder on my external drive. i selected all tracks in itunes and dragged them to the external.

unfortunately, nothing copied over. if i do the tracks individually, they copy just fine. can anyone help me figure this out?

thanks.

[reemas]

please help.

[Randman]

You should copy the music folder itself, not the list in iTunes.

Then you need to go into iTunes > Preferences and reset the location of the iTunes Music library.

Open your Music folder and drag the entire iTunes folder to the external.

[reemas]

thanks for the reply randman. i actually just wanted the files them selves into a single folder, without organization by itunes. normally for several files i just drag them out of iTunes. but it wont work if i select ALL my files. hope you can help with this.

[Randman]

Why do you want that? Always better to let iTunes organize the music. And if you have an external, it'll serve double duty as a backup of your music.

[reemas]

i let iTunes manage the folders. but wanted a specific folder with just the aac / mp3 song files. i was hoping to drag this over to my ipod as DATA to dump elsewhere.

any suggestions on this? thanks again!