Timeline for Can I have the iTunes index file in a different location than my media?
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| Feb 28, 2017 at 2:37 | comment | added | Monomeeth♦ | @willem.hill Yes, that was the other thing I'd considered - that Spotlight was indexing everything - but then you said it had been about 6 months since the SSD upgrade. Glad it's all sorted now! :) | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 2:15 | comment | added | willem.hill | @Monomeeth Well apparently iTunes has figured itself out... Thanks for the help, but iTunes is now full speed. I think it may have been indexing itself and I wasn't patient enough but I'm not sure. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 23:55 | comment | added | Monomeeth♦ | In addition to the excellent suggestions offered by @Tetsujin another thing you could try (mainly because it's really quick to do) is to launch iTunes and immediately hold the Option key down. Then select your music library from its current HDD location and click OK. This may not make a difference in your case since you're saying iTunes launches just fine, but it's still worth trying nonetheless. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 15:56 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Did you copy the entire iTunes folder wholesale, xml, itl files & all, then tell iTunes where it had gone? See apple.stackexchange.com/questions/157665/… & apple.stackexchange.com/questions/163594/… Though I've heard that breaking the itl file no longer works as it did. I'm going to run some tests this week & can report back later. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 14:11 | comment | added | willem.hill | @Monomeeth I completely reformatted the HDD. And this problem has only occurred as my library has grown significantly - when I performed the SSD upgrade my library was only around 90GB. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 5:28 | comment | added | Monomeeth♦ | Ok, how did you migrate data to the SSD? And did you reformat the HDD or just place it into the Optical drive bay as is with everything (including the OS) still on it? Also, have you had this problem since the SSD upgrade? | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 4:30 | comment | added | willem.hill | 1: iTunes itself loads quickly. 2: Maybe 6 months ago 3: macOS Sierra 10.12.3 4: iTunes v.12.5.5.5 5-7: N/A - I don't use iPhotos for my photos. | |
| Feb 25, 2017 at 4:13 | comment | added | Monomeeth♦ | Some questions for you: (1) Are you finding that iTunes itself takes a while to launch? (2) How long ago did you replace the HDD with the SSD? (3) What version of macOS are you running? (4) What version of iTunes? (5) Do you use iPhoto/Photos for your photos? (6) If yes to 5, is your photo library still stored on the HDD? (7) If yes to 6, are you finding that your photos also take a while to load? | |
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