Part 1. What You Need to Do before Moving iTunes Library to External Hard Drive
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As iTunes media library contains different types of files downloaded directly from iTunes, imported or sync from other devices, some of them may exist on multiple folders on your computer. It could take a fairly long time if you search and copy them one by one to your hard drive manually. Fortunately, iTunes has the built-in features to help you locate the iTunes media folder and consolidate the media files within a few clicks.
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Find the iTunes Media Folder
The folder path may vary on different computers, but the default folder for Windows computer and Mac computer is as below:
Open your computer explorer on Windows or Mac > Click Users > [Your username] > Music > iTunes
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You will then find your iTunes media folder, however, if you can't locate the right iTunes media folder under that path, probably it has been changed. You can go to the settings of the iTunes to check the folder path too.
Launch iTunes > Click 'Edit' menu on Windows or click 'iTunes' top menu on Mac > Choose 'Preferences' > Go to 'Advanced' tab > You can customize the folder
Consolidate the files to the same folder
After finding the iTunes media folder, you can start to put all the iTunes media files together to this folder, it is easy.
Launch iTunes > Click 'File' menu > Click 'Library' > Choose 'Organize Library' > Check the option 'Consolidate files' > Click 'OK'
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It will copy the media files from other folders to the media folder automatically. Normally, it takes only a few seconds only.