[karent]

My startup disk is full. I thought I'd move my music library to an external disk to free up some space. How do I do that? Drag and drop is not working.

I'm not sure if I should post this here or in applications since the library is for iTunes.

Thanks

[Spheric Harlot]

If drag and drop is not working, something is broken.

You should be able to just drag the iTunes folder inside yourhomefolder/Music/ to the external and delete it from your home folder.

If that doesn't work, you've got problems.

Make sure the external drive is Mac-formatted, as Windows-formatted disks either have problems with long filenames/filepaths (FAT32 format) or cannot be written to at all without extra software (NTFS format - Microsoft never publicized the specs for that; install the commercial driver software Paragon NTFS to fully use NTFS volumes on the Mac).

[karent]

I will try again.
The first times I tried I drug the whole music directory and got error messages about the iTunes directory being locked.

[Spheric Harlot]

Make sure you QUIT iTunes BEFORE you try any of this.

[karent]

thanks, I'll try again when I get home from work.

k-

[karent]

I'm reformatting the external drive just to make sure it works. What kind of mac os formatting should I use?

[Spheric Harlot]

Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

[karent]

SH-thanks for your help.

I tried to use disk utility to erase the external disk to format it as you suggested with no luck. I forget the error message I got. I was able to partition it into two partitions. Not really what I wanted, but it worked. Before I get too far into moving the music over, is there another way to format the whole drive?

[Spheric Harlot]

Unfortunately, that really depends on the exact wording of the message that you got.