Over the Christmas holiday, our family purchased new computers. We'd like to know how to move
our iTunes music files from one machine to another. Will it be more difficult to do because our computers are a mix of Windows-based and Macintosh machines? Also, why can't I get music off the iTunes site? Is Apple not interested in Hong Kong?
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DQ: Assuming you have the latest Apple software - iTunes 7 - transferring your music files is relatively easy to do, provided you have the disk space to do it. You need to copy a few things from one machine to the other: first, the music files then two little files that tell iTunes how to handle your music.
On a Mac, your music is kept in a folder called 'iTunes Music' located inside the 'Users' folder, which has a folder featuring your name. Inside that folder is a file called 'Music'. Your database is in there. For Windows, your music files should be inside Documents\My Music\iTunes. It will not matter if you are moving from one platform to another.
The files called 'iTunes Library' and 'iTunes Music Library.xml' must also be moved to the new machine and put in the folder called 'iTunes' inside the file called 'Music'.