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Can you spare the time to explain? One person told me to use preferences, but all that happened was that I ended up with two locations for the actual media files: one in Music on the laptop and one on the external. Someone else said 'shift and open iTunes' to change library location. This failed because although the library ended up on the external, the media files, when I looked for them, were in Music on my laptop! I am going mad because I just want to set it up the way I mean to go on. Can you give any help? Easy method 1: Move or Copy entire working library from current location to the root of your external drive.

② To back up files to an external hard drive in Windows 10, click Destination section and choose a partition on the external hard drive as the storage path. Step 4: Go back to the Backup page, and hit Schedule feature to set up scheduled backup for the files or folders. How to format a WD hard drive to exFAT or FAT32 file system Answer ID 291 This answer explains how to format a drive in the exFAT or FAT32 file system. This allows the drive to be used on both Windows and macOS. If you have an external hard drive or USB flash drive that you’d like to use on both Macs and Windows PCs, choosing the right file system to format the drive can be confusing. Learn a few ways to make your drive Mac and PC friendly.

Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window. Click on the Erase button.

Plus, with all the time I've spent creating playlists and rating stuff and whatnot, I'd hate to lose that. My library file gets mirrored across 2 hard drives just like the actual music files do since I have the OWC RAID1 external drive thingy. So bilbo155, while this will not get the iTunes app itself onto your external, it will move everything else over there. So as long as your external drive isn't connected, there won't be any trace of the music on your laptop. And if your boss gives you crap about the iTunes app being on your computer, just tell him it's a part of the standard OSX install The only downside to this is that the external drive must be turned on and mounted otherwise iTunes won't even launch, it'll just give you an error and quit. So if the drive isn't connected, you won't be able to launch iTunes to browse the iTMS or listen to streaming audio or whatever. Not an issue for me since my external is always on FYI.a similar trick with aliases and the Movies directory can be done to get movies stored on your external drive to show up in FrontRow.