If you decided to do it manually, it turns out some of the music files become unplayable, broken or corrupted. You'll find the two solutions in total to move iTunes library to new computer with ease. Step 2: You should see a folder named iTunes. Make a right click on this folder and copy it. Depending on the amount of music you have in your library it could take a while.
Step 2: Double click it to open and see what is inside. If the steps above were completed correctly, you should obviously see your iTunes folder. Step 3: Launch a new Finder window and find the Music folder of your new computer. Step 4: From the external drive or USB dongle, drag and drop the iTunes folder inside the Music folder of the new computer. Items will be copying over, which again could take a while depending on the size of your library. You can now launch iTunes and all your music, including all songs, albums, album arts, as well as playlists should be in there.
Library transfer can be done in several. Migration Assistant is a utility by Apple Inc. Let me know your thoughts with the advice above. The Sonos community is always here to help. Help others find useful content by clicking the like button and selecting the best answer to your question.
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The best and easiest way is to use a cloud storage service as the waystation. And you might want to transfer more than just files from your old computer to your new one. This story includes methods for migrating files and apps; two methods can transfer system settings as well. You can connect an external hard drive, SD card, or thumb drive to your old computer, copy your files to it, then eject that device from the old computer, plug it into the new Mac, and copy the files to that new Mac.
The trick here besides having enough storage capacity on your transfer drive is to have your files and folders organized well enough so you get them all. Apple has provided basic information for Windows-to-Mac networked file sharing. The best way to transfer these is to re-download them from the service where you bought them.
Such re-downloads are typically free. Direct file transfer will not move your locally stored email files to the new Mac.
I recommend you make sure all your emails are stored in your email server that is in, in your email client make sure all your emails reside in folders stored on the server , so they can just sync to the email client on your new Mac. In that case, Microsoft Outlook does let you import the local PST files to a Mac from the Outlook app on another Mac or Windows PC; Microsoft has provided the export instructions for Windows , and here are the separate Mac export and import instructions.
Your contacts and calendar apps may have an export feature that you can try. You can often export individual contacts as a VCF file, for example. These days, few contacts and calendar apps are not server-based, so chances are very high your contacts and calendar entries are stored somewhere they can be synced from into Outlook or into Apple Contacts and Calendar. MacOS has long had the Migration Assistant file-transfer utility, which lets you transfer selected folders and their files , applications, and settings from one Mac to another, as well as from a Windows PC to a Mac.
When you first set up a new Mac, you also get the option to run Migration Assistant during that initial setup. Migration Assistant needs something to transfer from ; that something can be a Mac, a PC running Windows 7 or later, or a Time Machine backup drive.
The source computer can be connected to the same network via wired Ethernet or Wi-Fi as the new Mac, or via a direct Ethernet connection between the old and new computers. A Time Machine backup drive must be directly connected to your new Mac or over the network if an Apple AirPort Time Capsule device is used for the backup. If you want to transfer files from a Windows PC to a new Mac, you also need to install and run the Migration Assistant for Windows software on the PC; the required version of that software depends on which version of macOS you have.
You can also initiate a Migration Assistant transfer to another Mac, which requires Migration Assistant to be running on that Mac. Click image to enlarge it.
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