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Posted 12 June 2012 - 09:05 PM

Hi guys, hope you can help. Just upgraded to a new Macpro now moving data from my old MacPro. Only drama is my iTunes , can't seem to transfer all my music. File comes up in safari and just numbers n letters. What is the easiest way.
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Posted 12 June 2012 - 09:17 PM

Normally the easiest way, is transfer all your music to your iPhone / touch or iPod and then sync it to your new Mac, failing that if you don't have an iOS devise, toss a DVD into your drive, go to your home folder ~ music, and copy the entire folder to your DVD, pop that into your new Mac, find the folder and import your music into iTunes.
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Posted 12 June 2012 - 09:58 PM

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 06:43 AM

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 08:07 AM

Thanks guys for your quick responses. It's telling me it will take up to a day to transfer all my music.
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Posted 13 June 2012 - 08:12 AM

Ouch how many songs do you have, and one last thing transferring music, is pretty damn slow
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Posted 13 June 2012 - 08:20 AM

Sounds a bit odd. All I've done in the past is copy the files from the iTunes directory from backup to machine and it works fine.
There is a very good article on moving iTunes libraries here http://www.ilounge.c...new-hard-drive/ it is very thorough and I can say that it has worked for me before.
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Posted 13 June 2012 - 10:02 AM

I have done the same as Jamie, a simple copy and paste of the iTunes folder (via removable HDD) and touch wood never had a problem when I've done clean installs or to a new Macbook.
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Posted 13 June 2012 - 10:04 AM

You could try iTunes Match too
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 05:54 PM

Thanks guys, downloaded to external hard drive then upload to new MacPro. Over 12000 songs
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 06:00 PM

Glad we could help :-)
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 06:11 PM

Wow know wonder it took so long...
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