Transferring iTunes movies to external drive

[mikegc]

For quite some time, I've purchased movies from iTunes and transferred them to an external hard drive. I travel to remote areas with no WiFi and enjoy viewing movies on my Macbook Air. Lately, though, I find my downloaded movies are locked when I transfer them to my external drive. Is there a way to unlock them safely & legally?

Thank you.

Mike

 

[MarkC426]

What do you mean by locked?
You can move your library to external drive and point to it in iTunes and then manually sync items to your MacBook.

 

[mikegc]

I've transferred 50 or 60 movies over the the external drive with no issues. On a movie I downloaded yesterday, I got the icon shown here:

It can't be opened with that simply click. The other movies play just fine but it's this one and a couple more I just purchased.

Mike

 

[MarkC426]

Have you upgraded OS recently or changed your internal drive.

 

[mikegc]

Have you upgraded OS recently or changed your internal drive.

I upgraded both my Macbook Pro and Macbook Air yesterday to Catalina 10.15.3. The internal drives on both machines are original.

Mike