Simple ? iTunes Question

Puerto - It's hard to diagnose your issue from a distance but I suspect what you need to do is start over with the import process.

I tried to duplicate your situation by installing a fresh copy of OSX on a clean hard drive, which includes the iTunes application. I also attached another external hard drive to represent the one you want to have as your music repository.

I then booted up the computer from the external hard drive with nothing but the fresh operating system on it, opened iTunes and went through the process I described above to put the iTunes music library on the second hard drive.

I inserted a CD, dragged the music files on it into the open iTunes window on the boot hard drive, waited while they were copied and then checked their location. They were copied to the second hard drive, the one I had chosen via the iTunes preferences. Playing them from iTunes on the boot drive worked perfectly.

Sfar: Yes, I w as wondering about that myself thank you for that advice. I shudder to think what will happen if I try to install a fresh copy of OSX. LOL!
How did you get the new copy of the OSX onto a clean hard drive? Following your original advice I did get iTunes to recognize my backup HD but now I am spending endless days and nights erasing duplicates on many of the albums. It is starting to reduce the load on the internal HD.

Thanks again for taking the time! I appreciate it very much.

You may have already done all the work and no longer need this but there is an application designed to do automatically what you're doing manually. It's called Dupin' Lite. It's by Doug Adams, who has dozens of interesting tools for managing iTunes tasks.

Wow Sfar! I had no idea that this feature even existed. I am almost blind from deleting dupes so Yes, I will give that a try.

Once again, thanks for all your help.

Sfar - just a follow up. I downloaded Dupin Lite and it worked like a charm. The available space on both the External HD and the internal HD increased substantially. Thanks for the info!