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How to move an iTunes library to an external drive
CNET's Donald Bell shows you how to move your iTunes media collection to an external hard drive.
Move your iTunes library to an external drive
Updated August 18, 2011.
If you're an iTunes user (download for Windows|Mac) whose appetite for music, movies, and podcasts is outstripping the capacity of your computer, it might be a good time to think about offloading that library to an external hard drive or a separate internal drive. If you do it right, the process is relatively simple, although the transfer time could take an hour or more, depending on the size of your media library.
To walk you through it, here are a step-by-step video and slideshow tutorial on how to move your iTunes library to an external hard drive.
