Restarted iTunes - Apple Music came backĪt this point everything looked good except the iTunes Library was on the HD not the SSD.Turned on wifi, put in my Apple ID password a couple times, updated payment info, and all looked well except Apple Music playlist contents were still grey.Everything worked as expected - iTunes Store warned me it couldn’t connect, Apple Music playlists were greyed out, but all local music and playlists were working fine.Created a symlink from Users/username to User Files/username/Music on the new HD.

Turned off my wifi so I had no active internet connection (hence no connection to Apple Music).

Copied contents of old HD Music folder to a folder on the new HD (User Files/username/Music) then ejected the old HD.

No guidance online for this triply weird scenarioĬould experiment since I had a complete backup which wouldn’t be changed. This was all potentially complicated by the fact that I hadn’t backed up iTunes in the way Apple advises, or even used the default location (Music/iTunes/iTunes Music) instead I had it all self-organized in folders by letter – but not consistently so j-k, u-v and some others were in combined folders…). I also wanted to end up with the iTunes database (but not the media) on the SSD.

iCloud music library and was concerned that if I ended up with a situation where iTunes couldn’t find files, it would start replacing them with Apple Music equivalents (which don’t always match & have other reported issues as you know…). labor and external housing for my old HD, it’s like I have a brand new computer (except of course no Retina display, handoff)Ĭhallenge was how to migrate iTunes bc not enough space on the SSD for musicĪlso concerned bc I kept my Apple Music subscription after the trial incl. Got new 250 GB SSD and 2 TB internal HD to upgrade 2010 iMacįantastic decision for $500 incl. Here are my notes on part of the process I followed: Scenario:

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