Itunes help

[Derek]

Seeing my computer has developed the nasty habit of just exteremely slowly if I ask it to do more than 1 thing at a time over the last few weeks and generally taking an age to start up and shut down I thought I'd reformat it and pop a clean install of windows onto it.

In preparation for this I asked Itunes to move the music library from its current, soon to be wiped, location onto a different HD.

This all seems to have gone OK. Checking any of the songs shows them as being in the new folder but if I select the properties the old folder shows 14GB of Data in 3,660 files and 438 folders.

The new folder shows 13.9GB of data in 3,300 files but in 464 folders.

Is this just windows not being able to count properly or is there any way to actually check the same files are in each folder?

It's possible iTunes has done some consolidating at the same time as moving your mp3s, thus eliminating duplicates and creating folders to store your tracks according to the way iTunes prefers to work, although this is conjecture on my part ... is iTunes now using your new location as its source of music, and does everything appear to be still accessible? If it works, it's probably ok!

[Mr_love_monkey]

you could try 'comp' in the cmd window

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...n-us/comp.mspx

not tried it myself, but it looks like it might do the job

[Derek]

It seems to be OK.

I'd hate to delete the old folder and find that I've lost some of the music...

I suppose it is backed up on my Ipod. If the worst happens I should be able to restore it from there (hopefully!)