Most likely you have a USB pen drive, Camera, DVD drive or some other device taking up the G: drive. Try unplugging them if you do. If not, try restarting and then plugging in your external drive. Other than that, you can always re-point iTunes to your external drive on H:..

Good Luck,
David

If you still have your songs, your media is fine. iTunes itself is only a fancy database with pointers to your music, movies, and podcast files. Right now, your iTunes either doesn’t know about where the files are or is still looking for them in the old location.

Since you’ve changed the location already, just drag all your songs into iTunes. It also looks like you have it set to copy the files, this is fine – iTunes will rebuild the library. Just make sure to delete the old location when you’re done or you’ll have duplicates taking up space.

And remember, make sure you have a good backup just in case something goes wrong.

Good Luck,
David

Thanks for all the help.

- Go into iTunes Preferences and click the Advanced tab.

- Click on the “Change” button in the ITunes folder location box.

- In the Window that pops up, navigate to your external drive.

Always remember that as long as your media wasn’t deleted, you’re OK. You can also drag and drop the music back in. Be careful – depending on your settings, it may copy – taking up twice as much space.

Good Luck,
David

Sounds like a job for an Apple Script or Automator action. Take a look at Automator World. They may have written something with this in mind.

Good Luck,
David

Michelle

Since you mention Windows Media Player, I’ll assume you’re using a PC.

Right-Click on the file and choose “Open With”.
Select iTunes from the menu.
Check the checkbox next to “Always use the selected program to open this kind of file.”

For those who’d like to know how to change this in OS X:

Highlight / select the file.
Click File from the Menu Bar
Choose Get Info.
Look down, towards the middle where it says “Open With”
Click on the Application and choose iTunes.
Underneath the application, click “Change All…”

The easy way to do this is copy the entire iTunes folder from the external drive to your /-User-Folder-/Music/iTunes/. This would have your library’s home be on the new laptop. (This works if you use the default location).

Make sure you de-authorize any old computers before getting rid of them – Apple only lets you authorize 5 of them per account.

Good Luck,
David

There’s a few apps you can use to get into your iPod without iTunes. Take a look at this post on managing iPods without iTunes.

The original iTunes folder is located in your User folder, here is the exact location:

/-UserFolder-/Music/iTunes/

Good Luck,
David

Also: I can’t seem to find the original iTunes music folder.

Thanks.