windows - How can I redirect my iTunes library to an external hard drive?

Right now, I have all my music on my internal hard drive, but it is running out of space.

So, I bought an external hard drive, copied all my music over and went into the advanced preferences in iTunes and changed my music location. However, when I view the iTunes music library XML file in notepad, I still see a lot of things pointing to my regular hard drive.

I didn't check the Keep music files organized tickbox because I didn't want iTunes trying to copy everything over from my regular hard drive, as I already did that.

Is there any other way to simply refresh a music list that's been given a new root directory?

Answer

This article may help you.

Managing your iTunes Library on an External Hard Drive