ITunes Filing System

I have noticed that iTunes on the backend database files albums and songs in a VERY strange fashion. It seems to put a ton of my songs into a folder called COMPLIATIONS or something like that. I have manually gone in and removed these albums from COMPLIATIONS and put them back into a sorting by Artist Name or Albumn title and then relinked them through the iTunes user interface. This has been a painful process. I have also noticed that single song purchases on iTunes are often filed under the album name even if you did not buy the full album. I have again interviened manually to reclassify such cases as a folder under the artists name called MISC. Two questions.....
1.) Have I screwed myself by renaming all of these folders in anyway?
2.) Is there a way to force iTunes to have me tell it where I want the songs filed not only in terms of general location but also by name of the folder within that drive?
Just curious- why does iTunes file so poorly on the backend?
Thank you

You could also blame the Gracenote CDDB database, whichi is where iTunes gets its CD info. If CDDB has it listed as a Compilation, that's how iTunes lists it.
I am with you on being a Compilations hater!
So, I get rid of the Compilations checkbox when I'm importing CDs. That is the easiest way.
If you have iTunes managing your music, you are making it very difficult. Instead of all that moving around and relinking, just select all the tracks for that album, right click and get Info. Make sure Album Artist is filled in, the uncheck the "Part of a Compilation" .
That will make itunes put it in the Artist folder for you, without losing the link to the files.

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Hi,
Just got a new 30g i-pod and when I'm loading in albums where there's lots of featured artist I'm getting a long list of artists as oppossed to just the main one. For Example: when I put in Outkast's "Idlewild" album instead of just Outkast being list I'm getting them plus the 12 or so other people featured on the album in the artist list on my ipod. As well as being messy, this means, when I go to just Outkast I only get the 9 songs soley attributed to them as oppossed to the 24 songs on the album. Anybody know a way around this oe is this just the nature of the beast?
Thanks.

i don't know any pro ways around it. you know what I do? I go into the song info "cards" (select a song, control + mouse click, then choose "get info" from the shortcut menu, then "info" in the tabs) and change the artist name to how you want it sorted. once you complete one song, it'll take you to the next song in the list. when i load an LP, i check out the song info cards to be sure it's filing it like i want it. if it's not-- change it. Some of my "dylan and the band" songs were like that-- some were dylan some were the band some were dylan and the band on the artist even though all the songs were on "basement tapes" LP. so I just went in and made them all dylan. Now they all show up when i select dylan or the LP.
There's two categories-- Artist & Album artist, so you have some play with how you want to name things-- itunes uses Artist as a the big default, but if you ever wanted to find some specific players then the album artist field might be nice to add info too--like the add'l artists on the outkast joint who aren't the main guys.
hope this helps. a little time consuming but not bad really.

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I cannot open my itunes, I keep getting message, saying Itunes exe-system error. The progam can't start because SVCR80.dll is missing from your computer.?

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Can anyone tell me where I can find a beginners guide to the filing system?

Can anyone tell me where I can find a beginners guide to the filing system on the Macbook Air iOS 10.9.4?

So, does this mean you have given up and decided to return to the MS Windows (PC) embrace?
The link that dominic23 provided has parts 1, 2, and 3 — did you review all of these? What remaining question(s) do you have about the Apple file system?
Videos that you may find on the Apple site are not updated regularly, and steps/techniques shown in them may be outdated, or not work as shown on the current operating system release.
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Did you consider either of the following books as a learning aide?
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How can I get the PDF file that was transformed into a docx file into my filing system to be able to work on it and translate it as the customer requested?

THanks for your reply.
Well what happens is I bought the program. It gives you a button to click,
you log in and then a box opens up asking you to select the file, I go into
my filing system (in Windows explorer) select the file, and the program
converts it into docx, my choice. I can read it there and when I try to
copy and paste it into my file where the PDF version is saved, it behaves
like an "image", and I can't save it.... or it saves likes something you
save on the internet, so you have to go into internet every time you want
to see it. I have also pressed any amount of buttons to see if it will
give me the option to save it any other way, and have found nothing. What
I would need is a file in docx.format that I can edit. People send me
things in PDF and sometimes I can just copy it off the PDF file and save it
in WOrd, then I can translate it for them. But sometimes the PDF file
doesnt allow me to copy the text. If it is in image form, I cannot work on
it. It means printing it, so I can copy type it into Word... and for that
I certainly wouldnt need to buy a program. Its just double the work and
ends up that the job takes twice as long.!
Sorry if I am a bit dumb with informatics. But I simply could not find
any way whatever to copy the PDF file that was transformed into Word, in a
format that would enable me to edit it.
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Margery
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Maintaining previous filing system format within Aperture 3

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Khazul wrote:
Has anyone any experience with Paragon software (http://www.paragon-software.com/) filing system tools for osx and windows?
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