Moving Your Library Temp

These instructions are for moving your music files from your internal drive to an external drive. The reason you might want to have actual music files are on an external volume is to save space on your internal drive.

Note: If you're moving from an external to a new external, just clone the external drive and that's it.

Keep in mind that the instructions below apply only to music that you have ripped from your CD collection or purchased from the built-in kJams stores. That is, it does not work for files you have Added to the Library. In other words, if you have imported pre-existing MP3+G files, this procedure will not help you. In that case, use the The Symbolic Link Trick below.

There are two ways you can move your music files: (1) you can move just the music files, or (2) you can move the files, plus your library settings. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.