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• Problems move iTunes to new computer Windows 10

  My apologies in for raising this issue again, but I searched here and all over the web and can't seem to find an answer to my question.

  My old laptop Win 7 died a few weeks ago.  My new laptop is Win 10.  Fortunately, although the old machine is kaput, I managed to remove the HARD disk and all data was still in tact and accessible.  I moved the folder the folder iTunes music on my old HDD to my music folder on my new computer.  I moved also all of my actual files of original music for the new computer; Once again, all in the same exact location.  I have also authorized the new computer in iTunes.

  However, when I run iTunes, even if all my albums appear, when I try to play a song that I get the dreaded dialog box that says: "the song _ could not be used because the original file cannot be found. You want to locate? "and even more formidable exclamation point appears next to the songs.

  I followed every piece of advice that I can find; I have uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes several times; I installed iTunes and moved the old iTunes folder in different orders. I copied tried copying the contents of the iTunes folder from my old computer into the iTunes folder on the new computer, when I recently install iTunes.  Nothing works.

  I also noticed that on my old machine, the iTunes database (file * .itl) was actually in the iTunes of parent folder, whereas, when I install iTunes from scratch, the default location for the iTunes database (file * .itl) was in the iTunes media subfolder.  I tried to set up my iTunes 'old' folder in the two formats when I copy on the new machine, but doesn't seem to make a difference.

  I know that I could go and use the option 'Search' for each album, but it is an extremely difficult task because of the large amount of music I have in iTunes.

  No matter what I do, iTunes can't find the original music files, even when I go in the Advanced preferences and redirect manually to the * file itl.  I can't help thinking that at the wrong place simply indicates the file *.til, and I don't know how to change it.

  The only things I can think of that might be the cause of the problem are:

  1. is this something from Win 7 to Win 10 (seems unlikely, because others have not reported this problem); or

  2 would it be that the drive letter and path where my music folder is on my new machine are both different from my old machine?

  On my old machine, I had a c: / partition that contains the programs and the operating system and a d: / partition for data, where my music folder.

  On the new machine the OS and data are stored on the c: / drive. It is "hid" d: / partition with data recovery.

  Also, on the old machine, my data stored in a folder of the user who was named with my first name (e.g. D:/users/FirstName/music).  But, when I created my account on the new machine to win 10 automatically named my user folder by appropriating the first 5 letters of the email address that I used, I understand is standard to win 10 (for example, C:/users/Email/music).

  These are guesses, but I'm all out of ideas.  Is it possible that someone here might be able to help me to rectify this situation?  Sorry to be so long-winded, but hope the more information, more likely it is, I'll be able to find a solution.  Thanks in advance for any guidance.

  The "missing file" error occurs if the file is no longer where iTunes is expected to find. Causes possible is that you or a third-party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, one of its parent folders, or the reader, he feeds has been a change to the drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from waiting for the files in the presentation of pre-iTunes 9 post-iTunes 9 layout, or vice versa, and so looking for a bit in the wrong place.

  Select a track with an exclamation point, use Ctrl - I to get the information, and then click No when asked to try to locate the track. Look under the file tab for the location that iTunes thinks that the file should be. Now look around your hard drive. I hope you can locate the track in question. If a part of your library has just been moved, renamed a folder or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse actions. If the difference between the two railroads is an additional music directory in a path, then it is a problem of layout. I can explain more if this is the case. If everything is where it is supposed to be trying to fix the security permissions for iTunes for Windows.

  In some cases, iTunes may be able to repair itself if you go through the same steps with Get Info, but this time, click on search and browse the lost track. He peut then offers to try to automatically correct the other broken links. Although he said something like 'use the same location' I think he expects to find titles in the same provision, artist / album, they were previously, with a systematic change to the path.

  If another application like Windows Media Player has moved/renamed files then the chances are that subtle differences in naming strategies will make it difficult to restore media on the precise way that iTunes is expected. In this case, as long as the missing files somewhere, you should be able to use my FindTracks script for reconnecting to iTunes. See this post for an explanation of how it works.

  If you want me to try to provide specific advice, please post back the following details:

  1. The location of the media file under Edit > Preferences > advanced
  2. The location of a sample of missing follow indicated under Get Info > file > location which begins file://localhost/
  3. The real path to the file which you gave 2 details.

  See also make a library of portable split for some information on the standard layout for the iTunes library.

  TT2

• reinstalled itunes on new pc and all the songs are duplicated

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  I reinstalled iTunes on new pc and all the songs are duplicated. How can I delete everyone else?

  iTunes can create duplicates if the same content is added several times from outside the media folder when it is about to make copies of everything that is added to the library, or is added from an external drive that hosts the press kit that was disconnected during the launch of iTunes.

  Official notice of Apple on the duplicates is here: find and remove duplicates in your iTunes library. This is a manual process and article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as the lost coast and membership of playlist, or sometimes the same file can be represented by multiple entries in the library as well as a removal and recycling the file will break all the others.

  Use MAJ > display > show items to reproduce exactly to display the duplicates because it is normally a selection more useful. You must manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sort the list by Date added can make easier select appropriate tracks, but it works better when executed immediately after the dupes were created.  If you have several entries in iTunes connected to a same file on the disk hard then don't not send to trash.

  Use my DeDuper script (Windows only) If you are not sure, do not want to do it by hand, or want to maintain ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this background thread , this post for detailed instructions and Please take note of the warning to back up your library before deduping.

  (If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to temporarily view or CTRL + B to keep displayed.)

  The latest version of the script can put away the dead links as long as there is at least a double live to merge his stats and membership of the playlist and must deal wisely when the same file has been added through multiple paths.

  TT2

• How to move itunes library to another drive on the same PC?

  Please indicate the steps required to move iTunes library to another drive on the same PC?

  Drag the entire iTunes, not only in the iTunes media folder, there, launch iTunes with the SHIFT key, and then choose it.

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• Hello. How can I watch DVD movies on my new iMac?

  Hello.. How can I watch DVD movies on my new iMac?

  You need to buy an external DVD drive. Apple made one, or you can buy a third-party DVD player.  Amazon has many others and OWC (www.macsales.com) have too many choices.

  iMacs have not included DVD players with them for the years also remember, you can only watch regular DVDs. If the movies are Blue Ray, OS X will not support, in other words Blue Ray is not visible unless you buy a Blue Ray software.

• My C: drive is almost full, how can I move to my new hard drive F: programs to free up space on the C: drive?

  My C: drive is almost full, how can I move to my new hard drive F: programs to free up space on the C: drive?

  Hello

  You can not move installed programs

  you will need to uninstall them and reinstall them on your F: drive

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  and read this;

  see if this program helps you to determine what is take up space

  http://www.Jam-software.com/treesize_personal/

  by default system restore will have up to 15% of the capacity of the hard disk

  you would like to reduce this amount

  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/76227-system-restore-disk-space.html

  http://www.vista4beginners.com/system-restore-space-used

  also use disk cleanup

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup

  The other Options tab is available when you choose to clean up the files of all users on the computer. This tab includes two additional ways to free disk space even more:

  • Programs and features. Open programs and features in Control Panel, where you can uninstall programs you no longer use. The column size in programs and features shows how much disk space each program uses.

  • System Restore and shadow copies. Guests delete you all but the most recent restore point on the disc.

  also scan for malware

  Download update and scan with the free version of malwarebytes anti-malware

  http://www.Malwarebytes.org/MBAM.php

  and read these information from microsoft on windows optimization

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/optimize-Windows-Vista-for-better-performance

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  I use actionscript to develop a simple application and I'm new to application development. I don't know how to move to a new page on the click of a button. I need to go back to the old page as well. Kindly help me. The date deadline is almost.

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• Move to a new computer. Best way to transfer my catalog and presets.

  Hello

  I use my laptop for a couple of years now. Got an updated Office Update I want to start using Lightroom on.

  I just need to copy and move my current catalog more in the catalogue directly on my desktop after I have install Lightroom. Same thing for my presets?

  Am I missing something else needs to be done in order to convert all my stuff on the desktop for Lightroom?

  Thank you and I use CC with Lightroom and Photoshop.

  http://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-move-Lightroom-to-new-computer/

• Acrobat 9 Standard - move to a new computer

  I have Acrobat 9 Standard on my laptop and you want to move to a new computer.  How then?

  You can't move it. You must install it. If just use your CD or downloaded file and run the install to put it on the new machine. You also need the SN (SN from earlier version, and if an upgrade). You can have 2 plants under license. If you want to remove the old disk, disable and uninstall it.

• I really just move to a new external hard drive

  With the help of Mac Cougar and LR 4.3. I want to have everything on an external hard drive, but need to move now to a smaller drive to another bigger. How?

  Probably the best way to go is to use the Finder to all move to the new HD, keeping the same folder tree structure, and then inside Lightroom reconnect (as explained here: http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm)

  UPDATE: I assume that when you say 'everything', you mean the photos and not the catalog file.

• Need simple explanation - move iTunes library to new PC

  I'm looking for a simple explanation of the functioning to the iTunes library to MOVE from one PC to another. The current/old computer will go far. KEY: need to keep notes of the song and playlists.  The last time I did I lost the scoring for thousands of songs and lost all the selections.

  Old computer is Windows 7

  New is Windows 10

  Is there a software that will do this for me?

  THANKS FOR THE HELP!

  • Where appropriate, consolidate your library so that all media included in the library are stored in iTunes standard media folders
  • Copy the complete library (whether as a result of the default values of iTunes, this will be C:\Users\username\Music\iTunes) from the old PC to the location on the new PC
    • If the library is small, if would be possible to copy over a network or using a USB
    • for large libraries, use an external hard drive as an intermediate storage device
    • Although the Windows copy and paste standard functions ' should be enough, third-party utility (I use Terracopy), or the method described in the user tip of turingtest2 on the backup of your iTunes for Windows with SyncToy library, may be more resistant to errors possible/interruptions during the copy process
  • If you have already installed and launch iTunes on the new PC, you need to overwrite all the files/folders is already present in C:\Users\username\Music\iTunes (this implies that you haven't added all the new PC which is not present on the old media).
  • Now launch iTunes on the new PC - the method described above ensures that data from the old PC iTunes (which is where are stored all your playlists, ratings, etc.) is available on the new.
  • An additional advantage to do this correctly, is that the new PC has now a physical copy of the same logic of the old library, so all iDevices will see this 'the same' library and you can continue the synchronization operations without risk of deletion of the device.

• The new capital el download stopped movies iTunes works?

  Since the new update of El Capitan, my library of iTunes movies won't play. They all worked without any problems, but now he says that they play, but the picture is black and there is no audio data. I'm playing them through iTunes on my Macbook Air - I checked the updates and I'm al up to date and my Quicktime is also updated. That's all of my iTunes movies - when I tried to download it the same movie again, it still doesn't work - same thing - it is said he plays, but the screen is black and there is no audio data. Any suggestions?

  Having exactly the same problem here on Yosemite.  I found that I am able to play the video to my Apple TV using Airplay, but it will not play on the computer at all.

  MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid-2012)

  OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

  iTunes 12.3.2.35

  QuickTime Player (833.7) 10.4

• How to move itunes to a new laptop win8.1 to winxp.

  Moving itunes to a new computer win8.1 laptop for winxp. Thanks Bob

  Hello

  Programs need to be reinstalled from the original media, except if you get involved paid for 3rd party programs...

  In the case of iTunes, you will need to download and install again from Apple on Windows 8.1

  See you soon.

• just downloaded the new version of itunes (10.7) and now every time I want to see a movie itunes automaticallystop to work.

  now on my desktop the icon Quicktime has shield Windows on it, what happens?

  iTunes for Windows Vista or Windows 7: Troubleshooting unexpected quits unexpectedly, freezes, or launch issues

• Downloading movies iTunes transfer between computers

  I downloaded a movie from iTunes on my Macbook Pro and want to transfer this file on my Mac Mini, which is connected to the TV. I tried to copy the file, but when I opened the file m4v on Mac Mini video open like a video at home instead of a movie. I was able to change the file type in the settings, but still the video does not appear as a purchase of iTunes with a link to iTunes Extras and other metadata.

  I know that technically I could download the movie directly from the internet to the Mac Mini, but given that I have a quota of strict data where I live (and the internet is not very fast), I would rather avoid this option if possible. I wouldn't be able to just copy the file rather than download it again on a new device?

  I would appreciate any advice.

  P.S. Something I may have stumbled, but have not yet tried: loading film on an iPad since the MacBook Pro and then by downloading it from the iPad to the Mac Mini via iTunes. Sounds ridiculous, but may not be too much work, so I'll probably give it a try.

  P.P.S. I use iTunes version 12.5.1.21

  You can set up a home sharing and access your other devices iTunes content, use the share of the House to share content with other devices - Apple Support iTunes