Itunes Problem

[MeetJohnDoe]

I have a very large collection of podcasts, music, and videos that I have downloaded from iTunes. They all reside in the iTunes folder in my My Music folder within the My Documents folder on my c-drive.

Due to the large size of my My Music folder (almost 100 gig now, with iTunes up to about 50 gig itself) I moved the folder to an external drive (F-drive). Now, when I try to start-up iTunes, I get the message that it cannot find or create the iTunes folder; and that this folder is "required" and is normally found in the My Music folder. I still have a "shell" My Music folder in the My Documents folder on the C-drive but it is empty.

My Windows Media Player has no problem "seeing" the My Music folder on the external drive and loading and playing music from there. What's the problem with iTunes?

Also, in WMP and iTunes, I set the default and rip folders to the new external drive locations before and they were working fine. Now, iTunes won't load but WMP is fine

Edited February 28, 2009 by MeetJohnDoe

[Maigo6]

You have to reload them onto iTunes from where they are now.

Originally they were loaded from Drive C, so iTunes is looking in Drive C, not drive F.

I had the same problem myself before

I didn't delete the old titles from iTunes library first and ended up with 2 lots of song titles in the library, one working one not.

[MeetJohnDoe]

You have to reload them onto iTunes from where they are now.

Originally they were loaded from Drive C, so iTunes is looking in Drive C, not drive F.

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Thanks for reply but I get the error message before iTunes even loads-up so I can't do any library importing as the program is not running. Funny thing is I has it running on one external drive and then transferred the iTunes folder to another external drive and now it can't find it

[Beardog]

I had the same problem on a 40 gig 4th generation. Set up your library the way you want the ipod to load it. (after you find all the missing data) erase and uninstall you ipod program . With the Ipod clear(empty) reinstall your library . This should take it out of all errors as the ipod will be a clean install & should not recognize the old problem- unless it is an actual Ipod hardware problem ...Doubtful.I switched my Ipod to D-drive & the music library was in c-drive. Once the correct path is established the errors will cease.

Good luck it just takes a little time to get it right.