Thanks for the answer Guy. Maybe using that iTunes application "Library Manager" (or something like that) might help me. BTW, you can keep long URLs in one piece by typing a < before the URL and a > after it. Thanks! Rick > >> Is there a limit to the number of files that iTunes can handle? > >Yes, I believe there is, though I don't recall if I read it apple's >website or another source: 32,000 files, give or take. Itunes has >associated 'databases' (really XML files), and at that size I'm sure it >takes time to read and process them. > >Oops: found it (I hope this is the entire url): > >http://docs.info.apple.com/ >article.html?artnum=61087&SaveKCWindowURL=http%3A%2F%2Fkbase.info.apple. >com%2Fcgi- >bin%2FWebObjects%2Fkbase.woa%2Fwa%2FSaveKCToHomePage&searchMode=Assisted >&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com&showButton=false&randomValue=100&showSurvey >= > >If that's only part of the url, searching the knowledge base for >"itunes, slow" will retrieve the document. There are also documents >explaining how to have two itunes libraries (but it's as simple as make >two and swap the 'database' files by hand, IIRC). > >grh