Consilidating Library

When I try to consolidate my library, an error message pops up saying,
"Copying Music failed. The file name was invalid or too long."
Someone recommended looking at the newly added music in "list" view and moving/deleting the files which are too long. I've done this, but it didn't work. Does anyone have any ideas of how to fix this??
thanx

There is a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs but not playlists back to iTunes on Windows posted in this thread: MacMuse - iPod to iTunes
If you prefer something more automated then there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod, this is just a selection. Have a look at the web pages and documentation for these, they are generally quite straightforward.
iPod Access Mac and Windows Versions
YamiPod Mac and Windows Versions
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Guide to ANY video file to ipod for FREE using Windows!!!!

This has taken hours upon hours of my time to figure out so you guys won't have to!
First off go to:
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/
download and install this amazing program. It will convert avi's, mpeg-2,...
after installing, you CAN'T use the default settings
to output a video file that can be transfered onto
ipod EVENTHOUGH YOU CAN TO iTUNES!. So what you have
to do is go into setup and where it says "one-click
profile" change that to "SP/320x240/1500..." and then
chose a directory that you want it to output to. SAVE
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it to convert to. to chose more then one file hold down ctrl and click on all the videos you want (it has to be in the same folder from my knowledge). when its done you'll have the orignal video on your computer as well as a mpeg-4 version (you can tell which is which, change your folder view to details and it will say under "type". drag and drop all the mpeg-4 ones into iTunes MAIN LIBRARY, NOT VIDEOS!. if you want, after its done, you can delete the original as well as the mpeg-4 files because iTunes saves it again, at least it does for me since i have a CONSILIDATED LIBRARY which means anything you put into iTunes thats not apart of its directory folder, it will make a copy of and put in its directory folder. If you don't have a consildated library you should not delete the mpeg-4 files. Edit your video files in iTunes and connect your ipod and see the magic happen. And
that is that. ENJOY!!

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Library Locating Files

Hi there,
I recently reformatted my HDD but I backed up my library of music onto an external beforehand. I looked around google and found out that by consilidating my files, it would be the easiest way to export and import my library of music and playlists. Now, after transferring all my files over and installing iTunes, I was surprised to see that my whole library was already here (The magic of consilidating I guess).
However, I know that by consilidating the files, iTunes has pretty much created duplicates of the songs in my library in the \iTunes\iTunes Media\Music folder, which pretty much eats up 2x the space of my HDD.
My issue is that, my new library's music are all located in the \iTunes\iTunes Media\Music directory, rather than C:\Users\namehere\Music (Which was how my old library, before reformatting my HDD, was like). It's not that big of an issue, but I'd like to delete the files in the \iTunes\iTunes Media\Music to save HDD space, and relocate all my files to my C:\Users\namehere\Music directory. Is there any possible way for iTunes to magically relocate my songs for me?
I've tried a few methods to do this (Note that I made backups of both my music library and the iTunes media directory just in case):
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2) Deleting the iTunes Media directory once again, however this time I used the iTunes FindTracks script by selecting all my songs and running the script - Unfortunately, this only worked for a few songs that were located in the same folder.
Thank you in advance!

Blade-X wrote:
I understand that generally it's best to put all my files inside the iTunes Media folder. However, I personally like to sort my music differently
I manually lay out my media (e.g. longer filenames than iTunes makes, separate folders for certain genres, artists split into A-Z subfolders, "The Beatles" as "B\Beatles, The" etc.), but inside the iTunes Media folder and with the general breakdown of media types. This makes it easy to move my library between computers, backup etc.
not to mention that I don't particularly place all my music into iTunes, only the ones I want to place into my iPod.
I'd still import everything into iTunes and manage that with playlists, but each to their own.
If you were referring to my FindTracks script earlier it is more flexible than the automatic feature in iTunes but is still really aimed at locating tracks arranged within a top-level media folder by artist and album. It might be possible to tweak it for your structure if it is well defined by tag properties.
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"Unable to Consolidate Library, not enough disk space on C:\"

This is a very annoying bug and i'm certain it is a software bug and nothing that I can fix on my end without an iTunes update. The goods news, is that it should be very easy to change (I say this as a programmer myself.)
The problem: I do not keep all my mp3's on my internal hard drive. This would be impossible since I have a 60gb ipod and my laptop only has a 60gb drive to begin with -- i'd never be able to hold my library on my laptop without using an external for storage. So in iTunes, I have my preferences setup to store music files on this external drive. It is working great. The actual database file is still stored on C:\ (internal) and this is fine since it is rather small. However, when I choose consolidate library, iTunes thinks for a few minutes and then claims that it is unable to perform the action because there is not enough disk space available on C:\. This is silly for several reasons: 1) iTunes should not be coded such that it copies all files to C:\temp (or wherever it does its temp work for that matter) before copying the files to thier final destination. This is just one extra disk read/write that is unneeded. 2) If, for whatever reason, using the internal drive as a temporary buffer is required, then just copy one song at a time. As long as I have enough free space to copy the largest song that needs to be moved, consilidation should be possible. There is no reason to copy all 60gb of music to the temp, then copy all 60gb to my external drive. Instead, it is much smarter to copy one song at a time (and deleting the copy in the temp folder after you are done with it.) 3) An example: My internal drive has 10gb of free space, my external has 55gb of music and 45gb of free space. My library contains 5gb of music that is located on my internal drive. Even if iTunes were to copy all 5gb to the temp space on c:\ before the final copy operation, this should be able to consolidate without a problem. However, it doesn't. For some reason, iTunes thinks that it has to copy all 60gb of music (including 55gb of music that is not going to move anywhere.)
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