File location resets

I changed the location of my iTunes files but every time I restart my computer, it resets to the default location.
Is there any way to make this a permanent change?
I have my music on a network, rather than on my local computer due to the number of songs.

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When I first set up iTunes, the music stored on my C: drive was very unorganized. I did not worry about it because I had fewer than one thousand songs. Now that my library has grown, I am suffering from a poorly organized library. When I go to change the file location of these imported songs on iTunes, I cannot reset in bulk. Only song-by-song, which is dreadfully time consuming for over 2,000 songs. Is there any way iTunes will allow me to reset entire folder locations according to artist name????? Please help!

I have my own views about letting iTunes organise the music library in previous posts. If you clear your library you should be able to just go to file add folder to library. Go to the top folder where your music is stored and it should add it, you can do this even if you have more than one place where your music is stored.
The iTunes music library is just a set of links at the end of the day, if the name of the file (filename not artist or title etc) or it's location has changed then iTunes cannot find it unless you point to it individually or by adding a folder. The other added problem is that iTunes has embedded into it this notion that when you remove a "link" from the library you also want to delete the actual file from your hard drive.
I reload my library about once a month, this mends any broken links I might have missed. I have two music library folders, one of them is the iTunes default library, the other is where I keep my music. The default library is always empty and I load iTunes from my own folder. In doing this iTunes never askes me to delete music from the hard drive because as far as it is concerned there is no actual music on the system (it's library is empty).
Why do I bother to do this, well I like my music organised and the "filenames" to include track artist and title (this also matches the mp3 tags). My music is not tied to iTunes in any way, I can just as easily use another music manager if I want to. Lastly I feel I am in control of my system and not iTunes, it does what I want not what it wants.

How do I change the pre-filled file location when I choose Save As?

16 September 2013
Using Windows 7 Home Edition and Firefox 24.0
I always want Firefox to offer a location when I download stuff. At the moment it fills the Save As file location with a location I never use and it is the same one every time, and I don't know how to stop this from happening. How can I teach Firefox to fill the Save As location with another file location, for example Desktop?
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It could not be ruled out it may help.
A clean reinstall may solve the issue and so could be tried but not as a first step and take care with what you do.
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ITunes repeatedly looses file locations of some songs

I recently had to move my music files to a new external hard drive. After getting everything moved over and changing the settings, I can now listen to import most music just fine. However, each time I try to sink my iPod, the program manages to loose about 200 songs (out of many, many more than that). Even if I individually reset the file location, the next time I synch, files are missing again. Most of the time, the files are similar, but sometimes it seems like new, random files are the ones that are lost. The files remain in their original location on the external HD, it's just that iTunes seems to have forgotten what that location was. Luckily, it seems I can still listen to my music on my iPod, and nothing is ever deleted from my HD, but it is rather annoying seeing 100 new exclamation points all the time. Any suggestions?

I have a similar issue. I moved my music folder to a new internal drive on my PC. Now, though I can see my playlists and all 8,000 songs listed in iTunes, every song has the exclamation mark. I can can go one by one and redirect iTunes to find it on the new drive, but have been unable to get the settings to work in Preferences and Advanced tab for "consolidate library". I DON't want to just create anew library if that means losing all the ratings/etc I have spent time on with the original database.
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Change file location

There's been a lot written on how to move an iTunes Media library, I haven't seen anything for a situation that I'm trying to resolve.
I'd like to move some of my movie files from an internal drive folder to an external NAS box. The library of movies would be split between these two drive locations. Consolidating onto one drive is not an option.
The problem is that when I move the movies to the NAS box, OS X does not update the file location within iTunes and then iTunes reports them as missing, forcing me to manually restablish the new file location for each movie that I moved. It will take far to long for me to do this based on the number of movies I'm moving.
After I move the movies, I could import them back into iTunes to establish the new drive location, however this has the disadvantage of resetting stats on those movies and iTunes treats them as 'new' rather then previously viewed, and date stamps are reset as well (Recently added).
Are there any tricks or utils that I could use that would allow me to only update their new file locations on the external hard drive?
And to clarify, all my music, and movie files are not imported and managed by the itunes Media folder. The options "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" are not checked on. I'm also using the latest versions of OS X, iTunes etc.
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Doug's script Re-locate Selected would let you move all the movies into a single folder. Altenatively you could declare a new media folder on the NAS drive, decline when iTunes offers to consolidate, select just the files that you want to move, right/ctrl-click and select Consolidate from the context menu. Reset the media folder when the consolidate process completes, again cancel any prompt to copy files to the media folder.This will create copies in the new media folder but you will have to tidy up the originals by hand.
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When I download firefox, using recommended setting, or my own, all the sub files/folders like plugins, modules, updater end up on the desktop as well as in the file location. And when I try to put them into the file location, they don't. And when I delete

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If I use iPhoto to import files from my camera where are the files actually stored and how do I change the actual file name? I have figured out how to change the picture title but it does not change the file name.
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Hi All,
Been doing quite a bit of research on this but drawn nothing but blanks or alternative suggestions, none of which are viable.
So the outline of the issue:
Deploying Office 2013 suite to organisation and wanting to have custom templates available for users to choose from, but want those templates to be centrally stored and managed on a SharePoint site.
In Word 2013, for example, when you create a new document, you are presented with a page to choose from 'Featured' templates (or blank document)
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Thanks for your response but this is not what I was looking for.
Those articles relate to setting a default template in a SharePoint document or form library.
I will try to be more concise.
What I want is:
(1) For users to be able to load MS Word 2013 on their laptops/desktops (connected to corporate Wireless/LAN)
(2) Once they have opened MS Word 2013, I want them to be able to choose a template from the welcome screen. (There are MS Word Defaults like 'Blank Document' or 'Cover Letter' etc)
I want to add a second tab which is called 'Personal' or 'Corporate'.
(3) MS Word 2013 allows you to create custom WORD templates and save them locally on your machine (either in the default location for templates, or a user-specified custom location (e.g. My Documents, Desktop etc).
(4) In advanced settings, there is an option to modify file locations. This is where you can point MS Word 2013 towards the folder (locally) that contains the personal templates that you have designed which you want to use.
(5) QUESTION: Is there a way to have lots of corporate WORD templates (perhaps one for Marketing, Sales, Procurement, Project etc) - Basically LOTS of different templates all stored in one location on SHAREPOINT, or in a SharePoint document
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When I have tried to modify the custom file location for templates, I can only set it to an address locally on my machine, or a network address (mapped network drive).
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