Joe has a new refurb(oxymoron?) iMac on which everything is transferred over.

When we try to use iTunes and we click on a piece of music it makes us go and find the piece - how can I get all of them authorized to play without having to find each one separately?

Since Joe has over 29,000 pieces of music in iTunes I think we need some Help, help, help.

Thanks to you all.

When you authorize one song under one account, it will authorize all of the songs under that account. I have 4 iTunes accounts, so I have to type in my password only 4 times when I move my music on a new computer.

Is it asking you to authorize the file or is it asking you to locate it on your computer? As Dave said, authorization should only ask once per account.

How was everything transferred to the new system?

This is what we get when we click on any song in the collection.

Everything was transferred through migration

Do you have a good clone of your old system (or the old system itself) with the iTunes folder?

How did you transfer the iTunes data?

If you have the old data, some XML magic may be helpful. Tell us more.

That is not an authorization message, the song can't be found. How did you copy the data from the old system to the new one? When you say "migration" does that mean the migration assistant program?

Did it get copied to the same place?

Is the name of the user the same?

Is the hard drive called "Macintosh HD" on both systems? If not, what is is called?

Jack I have sent you a private message.
thanks - m

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