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I seem to have forgotten something. Unless my memory is worse than I thought it was, I used to drag songs from my iTunes library to my desktop in order to attach them to e-mail messages (I found this much faster than using the ATTACH button in my MAIL program .) Anyway, when I try to do it now, the song file doesn't stay on my desktop. What's at fault, my memory or my computer?

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Posted: Aug 18, 2007 2:56 PM in response to: Niku
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while not a direct answer to your question, if you want a very simple way to send a file, select the song in iTunes, look under the iTunes menu, choose Services, and then Mail, and Send File.
To think of all of the time I've wasted..... Well, better late than never. I worked! Thanks for the tip. It worked like a charm.

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