Drag and Drop Artwork

Until recently adding artwork to iTunes tracks was a simple drag and drop. Now this method does not work. Hitting the add button on a track by track basis for artwork on my system works. Copy and paste from other tracks works. Odd. Anyone solved this?

JaBr wrote:
Until recently adding artwork to iTunes tracks was a simple drag and drop. Now this method does not work. Hitting the add button on a track by track basis for artwork on my system works. Copy and paste from other tracks works. Odd. Anyone solved this?
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here is a user tip that worked for me:
try this:
you can add artwork by going these routes:
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Good morning all,
After struggling with this last evening for some time I have decided it's time to ask the pros.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1925
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
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Andrew,
Is there any way of dragging and dropping an iCal event showing in week view across to a date in the left sidebar monthly calendar?
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Hello,
I am trying to implent a drag and drop from a table to an icon representing a trash.
The drop handler fails in converting the selected rows to a list:
com.sun.el.MethodExpressionImpl@87d9c00d javax.el.ELException: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.util.List
Could you help me to understand why? Below are the details.
This is the af:table:
<af:table var="row" rowBandingInterval="0" id="t1"
value="#{bindings.MyView1.collectionModel}"
rowSelection="multiple"
columnStretching="last"
horizontalGridVisible="false"
verticalGridVisible="false" fetchSize="-1"
autoHeightRows="6" width="190"
disableColumnReordering="true">
<af:column sortable="true" headerText="Entry" id="c1"
align="start">
<af:outputText value="#{row.Description}" id="ot1"/>
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<af:dragSource actions="MOVE" defaultAction="MOVE"
discriminant="delete"/>
</af:table>
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<af:image source="Images/empty_trash_32.png" id="i2">
<af:dropTarget dropListener="#{backingBeanScope.DropHandlerBean.dropHandler}"
actions="MOVE">
<af:dataFlavor flavorClass="org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.model.RowKeySet"
discriminant="delete"/>
</af:dropTarget>
</af:image>
This is the failing listener listener (the failing point is bold):
public DnDAction dropHandler(DropEvent dropEvent) {
DnDAction dnda = DnDAction.NONE;
if (dropEvent.getProposedAction() == DnDAction.MOVE) { // delete
RichTable table = (RichTable)dropEvent.getDragComponent();
//determine the rows that are dragged over
Transferable t = dropEvent.getTransferable();
//when looking for data, use the same discriminator as defined
//on the drag source
DataFlavor<RowKeySet> df =
DataFlavor.getDataFlavor(RowKeySet.class, "delete");
RowKeySet rks = t.getData(df);
if (rks == null) {
return DnDAction.NONE;
Iterator iter = rks.iterator();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
//get next selected row key
System.out.println(rks.toArray().length); // the number of selected rows is ok
List key = (List)iter.next(); // here gives: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.util.List
//make row current so we can access it
table.setRowKey(key);
//the table model represents its row by the ADF binding class,
//which is JUCtrlHierNodeBinding
JUCtrlHierNodeBinding rowBinding =
(JUCtrlHierNodeBinding)table.getRowData();
Row row = (Row)rowBinding.getRow();
//delete row;
row.remove();
//activate animation
dnda = DnDAction.MOVE;
return dnda;
thanks.

I did try, I obtained this:
java.lang.NullPointerException
Why NullPointerException?
I don't know if this helps, but consider that the collection model comes from a ViewObject built on three EOs with many fields, although the table only shows one column.
This is the Iterator in my pageDef:
<table IterBinding="MyView1Iterator" id="MyView1">
<AttrNames>
<Item Value="Cod1"/>
<Item Value="Cod2"/>
<Item Value="Cod3"/>
<Item Value="Cod4"/>
<Item Value="Description"/>
<Item Value="Cod5"/>
</AttrNames>
</table>
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I will see the Key content with the debugger.

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Brandbasher wrote:
Thanks Pondini but i have closed time machine, removed external hard drive.
Did you eject it first?
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That shouldn't be related to Time Machine (especially if the backups aren't mounted).
What happens when you try those things? Do you get any messages? Anything you can post a screenshot of?
Have you tried a Restart?
Does it happen in another user account? (If you don't have one, create one via System Prefs > Users & Groups.)

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