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Mac newbie help!
I have been using my two ReadyNAS drives on my windows network for several years. However, I have had a mac for a while now (2011 MBP now running Lion) whose itunes library I want to sync with the rea...
OK, here's what I have just done - tell me if it's different to what you intended.
1. I fired up OSX iTunes - the Media Library was empty (I don't use iTunes in OSX at the moment).
2. I added some Music files from my actual iTunes Music library (in a share on the NAS called Music) into the OSX iTunes Library.
3. OSX iTunes then copied these files across into the Music folder in my local user home directory. There is now a folder in Music called iTunes that has the active OSX iTunes files - Album Artwork, Library, Music Library, Media etc. In Media is a Music folder within which are the Music files I copied across. Total size of the iTunes folder - 732.4MB.
4. I then created a new share on the NAS called TempiTunes with AFP and CIFS access. APF and CIFS have default access of Read/Write and Allow guest access is checked.
4a. I connected to the NAS using AFP.
5. I fired up CCC and selected the local iTunes folder as the Source with TempiTunes as the destination. (I'm writing to the top level of the share not a folder). I setup the job as Maintain backup - no archiving - and off it went. No problem with the run, apart from some warnings about maintaining version etc on the NAS share (ignore).
6. I then created a folder on TempiTunes called Test2 and copied the same stuff into that (i.e. writing to a folder not the top level). No problems again. Test2 also is 732.4MB.
1. I fired up OSX iTunes - the Media Library was empty (I don't use iTunes in OSX at the moment).
2. I added some Music files from my actual iTunes Music library (in a share on the NAS called Music) into the OSX iTunes Library.
3. OSX iTunes then copied these files across into the Music folder in my local user home directory. There is now a folder in Music called iTunes that has the active OSX iTunes files - Album Artwork, Library, Music Library, Media etc. In Media is a Music folder within which are the Music files I copied across. Total size of the iTunes folder - 732.4MB.
4. I then created a new share on the NAS called TempiTunes with AFP and CIFS access. APF and CIFS have default access of Read/Write and Allow guest access is checked.
4a. I connected to the NAS using AFP.
5. I fired up CCC and selected the local iTunes folder as the Source with TempiTunes as the destination. (I'm writing to the top level of the share not a folder). I setup the job as Maintain backup - no archiving - and off it went. No problem with the run, apart from some warnings about maintaining version etc on the NAS share (ignore).
6. I then created a folder on TempiTunes called Test2 and copied the same stuff into that (i.e. writing to a folder not the top level). No problems again. Test2 also is 732.4MB.
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