importing music from external HD to iTunes
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- jay_jay
hey guys, I keep getting this message when I try and import music to iTunes from a WD external HD:
Attempting to copy to the disk "time machine backups" failed. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation.
Im not a mac genius and new to using external HD's, has anyone got the knowledge of what the problem is and how I can sort it?
cheers.
- Jnr_Madison0
Permissions?
- menos0
have you tried copying the folders except that 'time machine backups'?
- jay_jay0
nah sorry that doesn't work I was trying that earlier :(
- jay_jay0
yeah I dragged em onto my desktop and tried to import from there, taht didn't work either
- menos0
what you can try to do is go to itunes and under file do the import library or import from folder (i forget) and you just select the main folder and it should copy all music files within. otherwise it seems like a permissions problem with you time machine backups folder, in which case you could select the main folder that contains everything and get info (cmd i) and change everything to 'read & write' and click on 'apply to enclosed items' and see if that helps at all.
- jay_jay0
thanks bud, will try the iTunes way you just said. Tried the read & write thing earlier, didn't work.
- jay_jay0
the iTunes way didn't work either