Get Info..for multiple items where's THaT preference ?

The 1st few times I'd try to Get Info for multiple items , I'd get one window opened, and could make , say , 12 .aiffs open w/ iTunes rather then QuickTime. [ and even THaT seemed to change at the point of the latest iTunes/QTime upgrades...now QTime Pro is in charge ! ]
My point is : I like to get that one window for multiples, which used to come randomly, and not 12 seperate windows. Where DoeS one control that ?
-=TIA=-
~~~=Dave

Actually it's a function not a bug.... If you do GetInfo on more than 10 items it opens a "group" pane, otherwise it opens individual windows. Unless you want to count items the reliable way is to use Show Inspector instead (add the option key). I find Inspector more useful anyway, so changed the Keyboard shortcut to make Inspector the default of Command-I.
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I have spent several hours putting many of my favourite music CDs into iTunes. All was going well, but suddenly when accessing the “Get Info” of a particular album in order to add Artwork I got a message like “Are you sure you want to get the information of MULTIPLE items” (my emphasis). (The error message may not be word perfect because I clicked the “don't show again” box and haven't seen it since.)
But the point is that I definitely did NOT have multiple items selected. There is nothing I can now do to select “Get Info” for a single album, and as a consequence I will never be able to add Artwork again when necessary.
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davidfrombucks wrote:
Please can someone help? I was so full of hope when moving from Windows to the Mac but my hope is rapidly turning to despair.
I have spent several hours putting many of my favourite music CDs into iTunes. All was going well, but suddenly when accessing the “Get Info” of a particular album in order to add Artwork I got a message like “Are you sure you want to get the information of MULTIPLE items” (my emphasis). (The error message may not be word perfect because I clicked the “don't show again” box and haven't seen it since.)
If you get info on an album, it contssts of multiple songs so it is multiple items.
But the point is that I definitely did NOT have multiple items selected. There is nothing I can now do to select “Get Info” for a single album, and as a consequence I will never be able to add Artwork again when necessary.
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I looked through the Internet and found references to the com.apple.itunes.plist. However although I can see this using Terminal I cannot find it using Finder! (Why not?)
Because by default, Finder searches do not show system files.
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