Itunes and moving music to other partition

[ell]

Hi, I am not expert with itunes unfortunately, so I thought I would ask the best way to do this. I have a customer who called with a low disk space warning on his PC, he's a DJ at a local saloon. I went over and found his hard drive is partitioned and the C partition is down to 190 mb, while the D partition still has 68 gb left. Trouble is he has music folders on both partitions. He predominately uses itunes now, but it is installed on the C drive along with its library's, etc which are now full. Should I just copy and past the entire itunes music folders to the D partition, or just the music files? I will need to direct itunes to download and index to the D directory too, is there a special way to do this or will itunes find the new directories on the other partition on its own?

 

[Methical]

Not to sure on this one, its one of the many reasons I use MediaMonkey.
Have you tried it before ? I would recommend it to anyone with a large or substantial music collection over iTunes anyday of the week.

More to the point, vbs scripts can be created and loaded into MediaMonkey to help out with alot of the database management.

 

[ell]

Not to sure on this one, its one of the many reasons I use MediaMonkey.
Have you tried it before ? I would recommend it to anyone with a large or substantial music collection over iTunes anyday of the week.

More to the point, vbs scripts can be created and loaded into MediaMonkey to help out with alot of the database management.

I've found itunes can be pretty fussy about moving music around, (especially with a pc) don't want to screw up a DJ's biz, just thought I'd get some opinions from those who have actually done it. I did find this but not sure it really works! http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1364

 

[dbdawn]

Why not back up the D partition and then get rid of it and expand the C drive? After that put all the data from the D drive onto the C drive. That would be easier than messing with itunes.

 

[anonymous Mac Tech]

Should I just copy and past the entire itunes music folders to the D partition, or just the music files? I will need to direct itunes to download and index to the D directory too, is there a special way to do this or will itunes find the new directories on the other partition on its own?

Copying and pasting the music folder to another volume is comparable to just copying and pasting the registry hives to another volume and assuming Windows will naturally know where to go. This is what you are looking for. Also, even though I've done this before, google could have found this for you.

 

[ell]

Why not back up the D partition and then get rid of it and expand the C drive? After that put all the data from the D drive onto the C drive. That would be easier than messing with itunes.

I was wondering about that too, but I'm not sure if they have any programs associated with the D partition.

 

[ell]

Copying and pasting the music folder to another volume is comparable to just copying and pasting the registry hives to another volume and assuming Windows will naturally know where to go. This is what you are looking for. Also, even though I've done this before, google could have found this for you.

yes, I already had googled and pasted that link in my post above, just wondering if anybody had already done it successfully

 

[anonymous Mac Tech]

yes, I already had googled and pasted that link in my post above, just wondering if anybody had already done it successfully

I see that now, sorry. But this is not some crackpot scheme that someone devised up that may or may not work. This is straight from the horses mouth (Apple support KB), so to speak. I've done the same thing on Macs with iTunes and iPhoto libraries.

 

[ell]

I see that now, sorry. But this is not some crackpot scheme that someone devised up that may or may not work. This is straight from the horses mouth (Apple support KB), so to speak. I've done the same thing on Macs with iTunes and iPhoto libraries.

great, thanks, I just don't want to screw up with his play lists considering its his biz. Now I'm really considering copying the entire D partition, deleting it then expanding the C, pasting everything back into it. However I'm not sure if there are any programs associated with the D partition, that may make more sense maybe if all thats in it is music folders.

 

[seedubya]

Why not just shrink the D: partition and expand the C: into the free space created? Use Acronis Partition Manager or something similar?

 

[dbdawn]

You could always take a look and see what if any programs use the D drive, or like seedubya said to shrink the partition?

I was wondering about that too, but I'm not sure if they have any programs associated with the D partition.