Help me out please.....having trouble with my iTunes library
let me give a bit of background....
I just bought a new Samsung laptop....running windows 7. Previously, I was running iTunes on my old HP laptop, running WIndows XP. I backed up my iTunes library manually on an external hard drive by simply copying the entire iTunes folder from "my music" to an external hard drive. Whenever I had to reinstall windows, I then just drop the backed up iTunes folder into the my music folder and all my music, artwork, playlists, play counts, ratings, everythign was all there and it worked beautifully. Never had an issue.
Now these new Samsung laptops have a feature where they are manufactured with a partitioned hard drive. I have 1 500GB hard drive, but it's partitioned into 100GB for drive C, and 350GB for drive D. The intent is that the operating system and upgrades and key software go on C, and your data and other games and programs you install go on D. So I installed iTunes on D, and trid to put my music (the backed up iTunes folder) on D. Well it did not even see the library. SO I started digging and playing...since I had a backup I knew I would not ruin it for good. I first learned that if i put the music in C, even though the program was on D, it worked just like normal. But I want my data on D. So I also went into the XML file where they have all the song data and playlist data, and replaced ever occurance of "C:" with "D:" THis caused my music to be visible, but the playlists and the song counts/ratings were lost, even though they were still listed in the file. Also, it made me reimport the music, wiping out all the dates that they were imported or last played. The artwork disappeared as well.
All I want is the following: I want the program, and all the music on my D drive. And I want to get it from my backup, without losing the artwork or song count/rating data, and without losing playlists or having to start over from scratch. I spent many dozens of hours in front of my computer getting all that stuff right, and while I can just play it off the C drive with no problem, i really want it on D because my music library is the single biggest thing I have on my computer.
ANyone have any ideas? Is there a way from within iTunes to move everything over to the D drive without losing anything?
let me give a bit of background....
I just bought a new Samsung laptop....running windows 7. Previously, I was running iTunes on my old HP laptop, running WIndows XP. I backed up my iTunes library manually on an external hard drive by simply copying the entire iTunes folder from "my music" to an external hard drive. Whenever I had to reinstall windows, I then just drop the backed up iTunes folder into the my music folder and all my music, artwork, playlists, play counts, ratings, everythign was all there and it worked beautifully. Never had an issue.
Now these new Samsung laptops have a feature where they are manufactured with a partitioned hard drive. I have 1 500GB hard drive, but it's partitioned into 100GB for drive C, and 350GB for drive D. The intent is that the operating system and upgrades and key software go on C, and your data and other games and programs you install go on D. So I installed iTunes on D, and trid to put my music (the backed up iTunes folder) on D. Well it did not even see the library. SO I started digging and playing...since I had a backup I knew I would not ruin it for good. I first learned that if i put the music in C, even though the program was on D, it worked just like normal. But I want my data on D. So I also went into the XML file where they have all the song data and playlist data, and replaced ever occurance of "C:" with "D:" THis caused my music to be visible, but the playlists and the song counts/ratings were lost, even though they were still listed in the file. Also, it made me reimport the music, wiping out all the dates that they were imported or last played. The artwork disappeared as well.
All I want is the following: I want the program, and all the music on my D drive. And I want to get it from my backup, without losing the artwork or song count/rating data, and without losing playlists or having to start over from scratch. I spent many dozens of hours in front of my computer getting all that stuff right, and while I can just play it off the C drive with no problem, i really want it on D because my music library is the single biggest thing I have on my computer.
ANyone have any ideas? Is there a way from within iTunes to move everything over to the D drive without losing anything?
