ITunes a victim of the obesity epidemic?
These may be "Wish List" items. And they may have been raised before (but with limited time I haven't found a duplicate post). So I'm wondering if this post will bring up some comments, support, or an argument to tell me why I'm wrong.
*1) _Mandatory sub-programs_*.
I understand that iTunes needs QuickTime. Even so, if QT is available separately - and for all Apple knows I might already be running the latest version - should I really have to re-download and re-install QuickTime each time that I need to upgrade iTunes?
However, while there may be some arguments for forcing us to keep re-downloading QuickTime with iTunes, I do not understand why there is no option that allows us to avoid the downloading and installation of...
- +Apple Mobile Device Support+ (some of us don't have any)
- Bonjour (some of us don't wish to network iTunes)
- +Apple Software Update+ (some of us prefer manual updates)
In the last couple of weeks alone, largely to try to fix iTunes problems, I have had to twice go through the download/re-install cycle. And each time I am forced to download 4 other programs, install them, and then manually uninstall (3 of) them because I don't want/need them. Hey Apple, aside from whatever value my time has, I don't get unlimited free download allowance.
*2) Patches*
Us poor misguided PC people are supposed to be impressed by how much better and more efficient the Apple/Mac platform allegedly is. But very few native PC programs make us re-download/re-install the entire program (or, in this case, multiple programs) every time that there is a minor change.
It does happen for "major" upgrades, but with iTunes there is apparently no distinction. One ends up feeling that if they change a word in a Help item, then here comes another 60 MB download, re-install, and (for some of us) more uninstalls of the components that we didn't want (and that may not have changed anyway).
Is there no such thing as "patches" (a.k.a. Incremental updates) in the Mac world?
From Apple Discussions' "Help":
"Only the original topic poster has the option to mark replies as either Helpful or Solved ... the originator can also end the discussion by marking the topic as "answered"."
I am the originator. I did not mark the topic "answered" or a reply "solved". Help doesn't say anything about "assumed answered".
It's very frustrating for an originator who is a very slow typist to spend a long time composing an additional post, only to find that while typing, someone(?) has chosen to close the thread. (And apparently minutes after someone else had added a new post to the discussion.)
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Here are the details:
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DougOMG!!!!!!!!!!
You were absolutely right, Rob. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. I've got nearly 200 Artist folders with 1,000 or so Album folders - and they are all completely empty of music.
But in the middle of that long list of folders, there is an innocuous looking folder labelled "Music." I looked inside that folder and, bam, there they were - all 92 gigabytes of my missing music files in a complete copy of all those Artist and Album folders.
I thought I was going crazy! How could iTunes be playing all this music when as far as I could tell, it had all vanished? But there it was. As you said, iTunes had simply moved it down a level in the folder hierarchy and then didn't delete all the original folders.
And as I scanned the original list of Artist folders, I also saw the other folders: Podcasts, Audiobooks, iPod Games, etc. I hadn't even noticed them before. I just assumed that all the folders I was looking at were Artist folders.
Thank you so much, Rob. I'm not sure I would have ever solved this "case of the missing music files" on my own. I would have continued to bang my head against "hidden files" settings and all that. Perhaps I would have tracked these files down by looking for their location using "Get Info" in iTunes. But maybe not. I had no reason to suspect that I didn't know where the music files were: after all, the Artist and Album folders were all right there. They were just empty! I was so focused on the folders being empty, it never occured to me that iTunes had created exact duplicate folders somewhere else.
Do you know if iTunes had any practical reason for leaving all those empty folders behind? I'm just wondering if it is safe to manually delete them. I noticed, for example, that they aren't completely empty. They contain hidden files of Album Art and various ini files. I wouldn't want to delete them and then find out that I just deleted all my album art and a bunch of important settings files.
Thanks again. You saved my neck with this one.
Doug -
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The requirements for iTunes:
Macintosh System Requirements
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Your Mac must be able to run OSX 10.6.8. If you can run that OSX then you can run iTunes 11.1.
Which Mac do you have?
MJ -
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http://support.apple.com/en-us/TS1368
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ramstigo wrote:
I had an earlier post on this subject with a similar problem. I tried what you suggested and it worked indeed. You can select the artists from your Ipod on Itunes and after highlighting the artists/albums affected, click NO on the compilation box and the issue is resolved: the artists appear on the list.
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Don't you just love changes in interfaces?
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But now i don't have room anymore, because i have to much music.
So i want to move it all in to a folder called "Music". But when i do that
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A recent purchase of a MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Non-Glossy (12 days ago).
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I have no idea what's going on here, but, it's getting very frustrating.
Here's the situation: I am running the latest version of iTunes (11.whatever) on Windows 7, and my default iTunes Library location is in My Music on my C:. Unfortunately, my C: is a tiny SSD, and I don't want all of my content going in there, since there's no room. I have two other internal hard drives that I use for file storage, and I want to relocate my library to one of these drives. These drives are not external, they are not networked, they are just regular, plain old drives that boot along with the computer.
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Thanks!Hi
First post so do not shoot me down if I break some rule here but as I was getting the same issue, V Frustrating i know, I thought I would post my solution.
Felix, above pointed me in the right direction but I did this
After following the steps from Dr Von Smith I closed iTunes
Went to the old C drive location
Moved the
iTunes Library Extras.itdb
iTunes Library Genius.itdb
iTunes Library.itl
iTunes Library.xml
iTunes Music Library.xml
and the Album Artwork
to the new location on my D drive
Held shift and clicked on iTunes icon
it asked me for library location so I pointed it to the new location on D
Closed iTunes
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