SOLVED Moving iTunes Library to my NAS

[PDizzz]

Hello all-
Mac user here.
I just moved my iTunes folder to my NAS drive and when I option-click iTunes while opening, I select that folder on my drive and the message on screen is "Importing Music Library.xml" and it hangs forever. After 45 minutes of that (no disk activity during that time) I stopped the process. By contrast, when I copied my iTunes library to my portable usb-c drive and pointed iTunes at that, it fired up instantly with all my songs and playlists perfectly intact. I would prefer to use my NAS drive and not my portable drive.

I'll try to be as specific as I can with my hardware. Here goes:

Running FreeNAS version 9.10.2-U6
Supermicro X10SLL-F
Core i3 3.7 ghz
16gb ECC
4 x 1TB WD red drives in a raidz volume
AFP share
2017 Macbook Pro 2.3ghz i5 with 2 x Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C ports
High Sierra 10.13.6
iTunes 12.8.0.150

Thank you in advance for helping me figure this out. If you can't already tell I'm fairly green in this realm.

 

[joeschmuck]

I don't know why you are having issues, I also have the iTunes database on my FreeNAS and it works like a champ form every computer in the house. I do not have any Mac's. I also use SMB to share, not AFP. I know none of this helps you really but good luck in figuring it out.

Just a few questions...
1. Is the FreeNAS drives having a lot of activity?
2. Can you try an SMB share instead?

 

[PDizzz]

Wow...
Using an SMB share just... worked. It worked so well I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Things don't usually work out this well for me.

Thanks!

 

[joeschmuck]

If it's too good to be true, then it usually is. I hope the other shoe doesn't drop but becasue you are using a Mac, well you never know. And glad to be of assistance.