Comments on: Learn How to Manage Your iTunes Library http://www.mcelhearn.com/2008/06/04/learn-how-to-manage-your-itunes-library/ Writings about more than just Macs, by Kirk McElhearn Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/2008/06/04/learn-how-to-manage-your-itunes-library/#comment-735 Kirk Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:47:31 +0000 http://www.mcelhearn.com/wordpress/?p=332#comment-735 I'm afraid there isn't. I went through this recently after my son screwed up and, when moving a library from an iMac to an external disk to a replacement iMac, had changed the name of the startup volume to match the name of his music volume. In short, the path was /Music instead of /Volumes/Music, and he had to re-link some 4000 files. Now, if you don't care about play counts and last played dates, you can just delete everything from the library and drag the music into iTunes, which will give you correct pointers. But if you care about that data, you're basically screwed. Kirk I’m afraid there isn’t. I went through this recently after my son screwed up
and, when moving a library from an iMac to an external disk to a replacement
iMac, had changed the name of the startup volume to match the name of his
music volume. In short, the path was /Music instead of /Volumes/Music, and
he had to re-link some 4000 files.

Now, if you don’t care about play counts and last played dates, you can just
delete everything from the library and drag the music into iTunes, which will
give you correct pointers. But if you care about that data, you’re basically
screwed.

Kirk

]]> By: dzakary http://www.mcelhearn.com/2008/06/04/learn-how-to-manage-your-itunes-library/#comment-734 dzakary Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:25:02 +0000 http://www.mcelhearn.com/wordpress/?p=332#comment-734 One item that I would have liked to see in the article is a way to automatically re-link to files that iTunes has "lost". I have a 12000 song library with a few hundred songs that iTunes claims it can't find despite all being in my iTunes Music folder. Double-clicking the song will allow me to track it down manually, but it is a very tedious task. There has to be a way to automate it. One item that I would have liked to see in the article is a way to automatically
re-link to files that iTunes has "lost". I have a 12000 song library with a few
hundred songs that iTunes claims it can’t find despite all being in my iTunes
Music folder.

Double-clicking the song will allow me to track it down manually, but it is a very
tedious task. There has to be a way to automate it.

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