Have you reported these issues to the iTunes team? Menu ->iTunes->Provide iTunes Feedback <http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html> kunga10 (AIM) kunga47 (Yahoo Messenger with Cross-Platform dial-up Video sans audio on Macs) On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 09:30 AM, The G wrote: > Right, I know this. HOWEVER, I still have a few of issues with this. > With iTunes 4, when you change the folder preference, it rescans > the entire library before letting you use it again. That may not be a > problem if you only have 20 gigs and 3,000 songs, but I have over 110 > gigs and 19,000 songs. Then it takes about 5-6 minutes to rescan. > Highly annoying. > And as you noted, when you change the folder, if you lose the > ability to be able to delete songs (in iTunes AND in the Finder) > easily. Again, for someone like me with a large library and changes > file around alot, HIGHLY annoying. Having to select "show song file" > and manually deleting each and every file is incredibly wasteful and > inefficient. And, again, annoying. =;-) > I actually have two large iTunes libraries (a general 'Rock' > library and a 'Film Score/Soundtrack' library, both around 100 gigs in > size), and even just switching between them is exasperating (which I > have to, since iTunes has an absolute limit on the number of song > files it can recognize). I view the above issues easily fixable and > only a minor feature set to add.