[X4U] Itunes is a mess

[DZ-Jay]

I moved my iTunes directory to another volume once and it worked 
beautifully.  The way I did it was:

1. Made sure iTunes was not running
2. Copied the "~/Music/iTunes" to the new location
3. Opened iTunes and changed the iTunes Music folder location in the 
Advanced tab of the iTunes Preferences window.
4. Deleted the "~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music" folder (the original 
folder containing the songs.)

It seems that iTunes keeps the music database files ("iTunes Library", 
"iTunes Music Library.xml", etc.) in its original folder, 
"~/Music/iTunes", and only lets you move the folder where the song 
files are located.  So if you moved those too, that could be the reason 
why it can't find the songs (?).

	dZ.


On Sep 24, 2005, at 07:46, Andy Hannen wrote:

> This may be OT.
> My iTunes library is a mess. I moved the library to a another volume 
> and
> change the appropriate setting in iTunes. Now iTunes can't find about 
> 90% of
> my songs, I have to look for them. There are also duplicate copies of 
> many
> songs in the library sometimes as many as 4 copies.
>
> Is there some sort of management tool (like iphoto library manager).
>
> What would happen if I manually removed all the songs from the various
> directories in the library, deleted the library and re-imported all the
> songs back.
>
> 10.4.2, iTunes 5.01
>
> Andy
>
>
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