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moving music files: copy/ xfer speed (painful)
answer is probably very simple. Perhaps as simple as, "Just deal with it. There is no way to increase the speed of file xfer" . Here is my setup. I have a wireless NAS (Thecus N0503 - neat little gadj). It has two folders: the first one was created when I directly copied (via usb) my extensive mp3 library from a Seagate EHD. Looks like this: N0503: usbcopy/Music Library
The second folder, I added subsequently (as per the instructions for enabling the N0503 to function as my home iTunes server). This folder is called 'iTunes_music'
So, I have: N0503: iTunes_music (folder #1); N0503:usbcopy/Music Library (folder #2)
Now..the problem.
the music needs to be readable in the 'iTunes_music' folder. So my knee jerk reaction is "ok, I gotta cut/paste ALL THESE mp3 sub-folders (by recording artist) from N0503:usbcopy/music library > to > N0503:iTunes_music"
This takes FOREVER!! Soooooo Slooooow. One sub folder (Andrea Bocceli) had 80 songs and took 1 hour!
Can I simply rename the "...Music Libary" folder as "iTunes_music" (and then delete the unused "iTunes_music" folder? (expecting of course that the Itunes link wont be lost. Or is that naive?)
Or, do I need to stay the course the way I'm (painfully slowly) doing it now... (albeit with some sort of tweak that makes the process a bit faster)?
Or is there yet another suggestion... ?
Thank you!
created What I am trying to do is the following. I have extensive mp3 files in