ITunes forgets where my music is
Hi,
New to this forum, hope anybody can help me.
I have my music on a NAS drive. I tell iTunes in Edit | Preferences | Advanced the location of the music folder on that drive. So far so good. But everytime I shut down my laptop, or update iTunes, or whatever, iTunes 'forgets' it and stubbornly resets the location to My Documents | My Music etc. How can I make this stick? It's pretty frustrating to again have to organise the library after every restart or when I come back home and log on to my home network. This was supposed to be fun, right??
Jan Didden
I will have to check it. Normally when I get back with the laptop and start it up, it gets into the network and the NAS should be there, way before I open iTunes, so that appears to rule it out as a cause. Unless there is a little iTunes 'helper' applet that hooks itself in as soon as I start up the laptop.
The other thing is that the library is maintained in My Documents|My Music|iTunes blabla.xml or something like that. Maybe I need to migrate that stuff to the NAS drive as well? Not sure about the significance of this.
Jan Didden
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