where are itunes music stored windows 10

WHERE ARE ITUNES MUSIC STORED WINDOWS 10 PC

I haven't tried it but it would probably work.Īngela Goodwin from Southern California on December 06, 2011: Thank you again for the great article.īill Yovino (author) on December 06, 2011: This was the easiest part of the whole transfer.

I have had problems over the past year with my laptop and have had to reinstall windows several times and always having to redo my itunes library. Since the new system had a different name than the old one, I only had to edit the xml file to change the name part of the string. After installing windows and iTunes on my new system, I used the WET program to put the stuff from my laptop onto the new system. I only used windows easy transfer for my c drive. I had a second drive in my laptop that had my itunes library on it and I put that drive into the desktop. I was moving from my laptop win 7 to a desktop win 7. It makes me happy to hear success stories.īill, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for your helpful article. Even taking into account the issues with Windows 7's different folder hierarchy.īill Yovino (author) on February 10, 2013: Your instructions are very useful for anyone who wants to preserve the entire iTunes configuration. If not, recheck that you entered the correct information during the Find/Replace step. Navigate to the XML file that you edited, select it and click 'OK'.

Close the Notepad session and save the results.

In my case, I replaced C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/william.yovino/My%20Documents/My%20Music/iTunes with C:/Users/Bill%20Yovino/Music/iTunes It will take several seconds to replace all of the occurrences.

WHERE ARE ITUNES MUSIC STORED WINDOWS 10 PC

(This is the text from the new PC that you noted in the previous step).

In the 'Replace with' field enter the text that we saved earlier.

Paste the text into the 'Find What' field by holding down Ctrl-key and pressing 'V' (This is the text from the old PC that you just copied).

From the Notepad menu, click 'Edit' then 'Replace'.

Copy the text by holding down the Ctrl-key and pressing 'C'.In my case it was 'C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/william.yovino/My%20Documents/My%20Music/iTunes/'. Select the file location beginning at the 'C:/' and ending at the 'iTunes/'.Find the 'File://localhost/' text as we did earlier.Right-click the file 'iTunes Music Library.xml' and select 'Edit'.Use Windows Explorer to navigate to the XML file that you copied from your old computer in the step above.

The last step is to edit the 'iTunes Music Library.xml' file to reflect the proper location. (Thank you iTunes for continually changing things) Important Note: Move the XML file to a different folder otherwise iTunes will delete it when you start it.

Where are itunes music stored windows 10