Move Itunes Library From External Drive To Mac
Mar 18, 2020 Your Photos library holds all your photos, albums, slideshows, and print projects. If your library is large, and you want to free up storage space on your Mac, turn on iCloud Photo Library and use Optimize Mac Storage, or move your library to an external drive. Before you start, be sure to. Your existing iTunes Library will be moved to the new drive and any new music, videos, or whatever you have in iTunes will be backed up to the new drive as well. Please keep in mind that you can go back to step 2 and change where your iTunes Library is stored—to your computer or a different external drive— at any time.
If you usually buy movies or TV shows from iTunes store, you will find most iTunes movies are in large file size, usually occupy more than 3G storage for each movie. So for iTunes movie lovers, it's neccessary to prepare an external driver and move the iTunes library to the external driver to avoid the hard drive is filled to the brim. In this article, we will walk you through how to move and copy your iTunes movies and TV shows to external driver on Mac OS.
Customize the iTunes Library Path to External Driver
The most popular method we use is customizing the iTunes library path to external driver. Then each time we download iTunes movies or music or other data from iTunes, they will be saved to external driver automatically.
Step 1Gather your files
Go to 'iTunes -> Preferences' and make sure the options 'Keep iTunes Media Folder organized' and ' Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library' are checked.
Step 2Change the iTunes library default path
On the same 'Preference' panel, click 'Change' button, then you can customize the iTunes library storage directory to your external driver path. Then everytime you download items from iTunes, it will be saved in the customized path automatically.
Mar 18, 2020 Your Photos library holds all your photos, albums, slideshows, and print projects. If your library is large, and you want to free up storage space on your Mac, turn on iCloud Photo Library and use Optimize Mac Storage, or move your library to an external drive. Before you start, be sure to. Jul 12, 2017 Apple’s new Photos application was released as part of a recent system update. By default, Photos creates its library in your Pictures folder, but it can be easily moved or newly created. There are any number of reasons you might want to create a new Photos library or move it to another location. Nov 03, 2010 Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.5.1) Posted on Nov 2, 2010 10:03 AM. But it will copy those photos from Album 1 to 2 by just dragging it over, seeing the '+' sign as you drag it over the Album 2 title. You do not need iPhoto Library Manager for this. Move Photos from one. Copy photos library from one mac to another mac.
Step 3Consolidate iTunes library
Go to 'File ->Library -> Organize Library ' and check the 'Consolidate files ' option. And then click 'OK'.
Done. Your existing iTunes Library has been moved to the new drive and any new music, videos, or whatever you load into iTunes will be downloaded to the new drive as well.
Backup iTunes Movies to External Driver without DRM Protection
For people who don't like the DRM protection attached in iTunes videos, you are recommended to strip the iTunes DRM protection and save the iTunes videos anywhere you want.
TunesKit iTunes DRM Media Converter for Mac is the strongly recommended application for Mac users to strip the DRM protection from iTunes videos. It's obviously there is no change to iTunes files in the first method we introduced above. iTunes videos are still encrypted by Fairplay DRM protection, which prevent us transfering our movies, TV shows to anywhere else like Andoid mobile devices, Windows Phone etc. But with TunesKit for Mac, we can easily get rid of the DRM protection from iTunes videos and watch them anywhere we like. TunesKit DRM Media Converter for Mac will help us convert iTunes M4V videos to unprotected MP4 format for playing on various mobile devices. It's worth to mention that TunesKit will retain all metadata of iTunes movies, including audio tracks,subtitles, closed captioning, 5.1 surround etc.
Step 1Download and Install TunesKit app on your Mac
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To run TunesKit for Mac successfully on your Mac, please make sure you are running Mac OS X 10.8 or later and have installed the newest iTunes.
Step 2Import iTunes videos to TunesKit for Mac
Click 'Add Files' button, then it will find your iTunes library automatically. Choose the videos you want to bypass the DRM from. You can also drag and drop the videos from iTunes library folder.
Step 3Remove DRM from iTunes videos and convert M4V to MP4.
Click 'Convert' button, then TunesKit will start to work. The conversion will be finished soon. Once it's done, you can find the output files under the 'Converted' tab or by clicking 'Open' button.
Save Itunes To External Hard Drive
Until now, you have successfully backup the iTunes videos without quality lose. You can copy the DRM free iTunes movies to external driver or everywhere you like. No worry at all for the storage space.
Move Itunes Library To External Drive
Dave Henry is a long-time TunesKiter who loves all technological things. In his free time, he likes reading about science and technology, writing for his blog, watching sci-fi films, and meditating.