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Itunes help - pretty please!

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disclaimer first - I am not techy and need plain english!!

I have a computer - one I am not using anymore, and I also have a new computer
I want to transfer my songs to my new computer.
I thought I had done it, and now it says cannot locate file -search? when I search for the music file, it is under music stored in a file named Itunes, and all the songs are there
If it is any help, I did it by following this article below. I have an external Seagate drive thing - note the technical term there :rotfl:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751

help?! I need music!

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  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    edited 11 April 2010 at 4:09PM
    At what point does 'it' say 'cannot locate file' ? When you open iTunes? When you click on a track to play it?
  • brighthair
    brighthair Posts: 646 Forumite
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    yes. Except really I need to do it off the hard drive. My old computer has pretty much died and keeps switching itself off. I am just trying again by going into Itunes - file - add file to library and selecting the file with the music in
  • brighthair
    brighthair Posts: 646 Forumite
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    ok, have done that and it worked! (like it did last time until I restarted the computer!)
    except now I have two of every song - all 3000 of them....one that works, and one that doesn't. Is there a quick way of deleting the ones that don't work?
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    brighthair wrote: »
    ok, have done that and it worked! (like it did last time until I restarted the computer!)
    except now I have two of every song - all 3000 of them....one that works, and one that doesn't. Is there a quick way of deleting the ones that don't work?

    Delete them all, then Add File to Library again now that it's working?
  • brighthair
    brighthair Posts: 646 Forumite
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    oh marvellous plan! thank you
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