ITunes ibrary location resets itself
Hello,
I have my iTunes library located on an external drive. Works nicely. But every now and then, the location of the library resets to the default location (~/Music/...). Any ideas on why it does this? I keep the external drive mounted at all times.
same problem since the latest update to 7.7.1, every 2/3 days the location of the itunes folder reverts back to default.
this is causing itunes library to be split over two locations and requires consolidation of entire folder again - with large amounts of movies, tv shows and music this is a real pain and takes considerable time.
Yet to find a solution on any of the discussion forums, one would be greatly appreciated
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ITunes library location resetting itself
I have moved my iTunes Library to a server drive so that it can be backed up, but iTunes keeps resetting it to my local hard drive. I had first moved the library several weeks ago, and then accidentally discovered it had changed back to my local hard drive all by itself at some point. I had moved it prior to the recent 6.0 and 6.0.1 releases (currently running 6.0.1), so I thought maybe the upgrade from 5 had reset it. A couple of nights ago, I got it all cleaned up and recombined back on the server drive. I had downloaded the 2 new free downloads this week, and then had numerous podcast updates during the day. That night, I found that again the location of my library has changed back to my local hard drive, and those downloads I had just done had went there. Again, I changed the library location through Preferences (with the "Keep iTunes Music folder oganized" and "Copy files to iTunes Music folder" options checked), and then "Consolidated" the library. Today, at around 4:00 this afternoon, it again switched back to the default C: drive location, when no one was even home. What's up with this? iTunes is supposed to allow changing of the library location, and I have followed the proper procedures, but it will not stay!
Help!Speculation about future iTunes releases, features, or bug fixes is not allowed to be discussed here, but I can safely say that iTunes 7 won't be out for a long time. We went from 4.9 to 6 in six weeks recently. Highly unusual, and I don't expect that to be repeated anytime soon. However, that doesn't mean version 6 won't be updated.
What's important to remember is that your setup isn't the majority of iTunes' target market. That translates into your feature request or bug fix requirement probably being lower on the ladder of priority.
What would be useful to the iTunes community here is someone to volunteer to do some extensive testing and report the results.
- try multiple network/mount methods
- quit/launch iTunes quickly and see if there's any correlation with the speed of disk access
- make a note of any other processes that may have locked the network volume for a brief period, causing iTunes not to have access -
ITunes 11.x resetting itself every time its closed and relaunched
Itunes 11.x keeps resetting itself every time I close it and then later reopen. It prompts accepting the end user agreement, then upon entering, all the sync preferences are reset. Doesn't seem to effect backup of apps or music library. I'm using windows vista 64. Tried reinstalling several times removing every apple component including, all apple sub files, preference files in windows user folders, and all other apple folders, with no change upon reinstallation. Tried resetting sync history/cache in iTunes preferences, tried resetting admin rights in windows, tried enough to make this miserable. Can't find any solutions online though have found a lot of people complaining about the same issues with iTunes 11. Thought about removing 11 and installing older version though figured I'd try here first for a solution.
Thank you for the help...Its a i7 965, 12GB ram, 295GTX, on a ASUS P6T Deluxe m/b, with a PCP&C 860W in a LianLi 7010 case.
A 300GB Velociraptor HD (for the OS) a RAID 1 (2x 1TB), and a 1TB. Plus a DVD RW and an LG BluRay Recorder. -
My iTunes 11 client resets itself.
My iTunes 11 client wouldn't work, and my Windows 7 laptop was restarted (don't remember how it did), and whenever I load iTunes 11, it asks me to accept the Terms of Service, and I have to sign in, again. What's going on, and how can I fix this?
same problem since the latest update to 7.7.1, every 2/3 days the location of the itunes folder reverts back to default.
this is causing itunes library to be split over two locations and requires consolidation of entire folder again - with large amounts of movies, tv shows and music this is a real pain and takes considerable time.
Yet to find a solution on any of the discussion forums, one would be greatly appreciated -
My Folder location reset itself to the default
No matter how I try to change the default setting to where all of my music is, it still does not find all my music. I know it's there though! If I click on a song it can't find, I tell it I want to find it, and there it is right in the folder I told iTunes it was. This came about very suddenly. Plus, it recognizes some files but not others. There is not rhyme or reason to which it recognizes and which it does not as far as I can tell. I'm tired of having to click on the songs I want to hear, search for them, and then hear them. What can I do?
Do you have a backup of your iTunes LIbrary.itl file from BEFORE this happened?
If you catch it right away, what you did should work. (Closing iTunes, enable exHD, start iTunes)
But if you've made changes (such as clicking on ! items and finding them), you are sadly out of luck on having everything exactly as before.
In the furture you can make regular backups of the iTunes library files to avoid this sort of thing.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732 -
My iPhone 3gs is not working properly and hasn't been since about September of last year. When switched on (Quite often it won't even turn on) it says 'Update Completed' as though it has just been updated. On the next screen it says to 'Connect to iTunes'. It doesn't, however, connect to iTunes and just resets itself over and over until power is gone. Occasionally after switching on and off a few times it functions normally for a few hours and some times even a couple of days but eventually always turns itself off and goes back to the 'Update Completed' screen. Does anyone know what might be causing this and/or a way of fixing it?
Morning JordenR,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
You can resolve many restore issues using the troubleshooting steps documented here.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
iOS: Resolving update and restore alert messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1275
Best of luck,
Mario -
Ipod constantly resetting itself when plugged into Itunes.
My new 5G 80gig Ipod constantly resets itself when I plug it into Itunes. Any ideas? The Ipod is new...
Here's what I've done so far unsuccessfully:
Placed it into disk mode, but it does the same thing. Once plugged into the computer the ipod is recognized by both windows and Itunes but it resets itself within 30 seconds. It constantly keeps resetting itself.
Also, since it keeps resetting itself, and therefore disappears form itunes, I cannot reformat/hardreset it via Itunes.... -
IPod resets itself playing .m4a's (music ripped from cd's)
My new ipod video works fine playing mp3's or music from itunes store, but resets itself any time i try to listen to a song from a cd. these songs all have the .m4a file extension. what can i do to fix this?
Here is my 'tech/test report' for the day:
I plugged in the iPod to my work computer, same as yesterday. No songs in library, etc, etc.
Using the iPod as the song file source, and playing the songs using iTunes as the controlling interface, this thing played all day, hour after hour, with no resets, no issues of any type.
After ejecting the iPod and playing it on the way home, I was able to get approximately one (1) hour of play time before the iPod went into the 'AUTO-RESET' mode, by rebooting itself with no contact.
I believe we state with a high level of assurance the issue is neither MECHANICAL (i.e. a bad or tempermental hard-drive) or due to bad files. The iPod did what it was supposed to do for hours when using an external (i.e. Workstation) user interface (iTunes). Although possible, I still doubt the RESET issue stems from a battery/power triggered event.
I tend to believe the issue lies somewhere within the UI or OS on the unit itself. Perhaps some memory cache that fails to clear and eventually fills and forces a reset?
Still searching for THE solution...
Ps: I WILL NOT BE UPGRADING TO 1.1.1 ... those issues look REALLY UGLY!!! Atleast I still get to listen to SOME songs before it bites the dust! -
My ipod reset itself it would not let me log into my old itunes account so I made a new one how can I get to all my music and stuff.
To recovery yoyr existing account:
Is there a way to find my Apple ID Name if I can't remember it?
Yes. Visit My Apple ID and click Find your Apple ID. See Finding your Apple ID if you'd like more information.
How do I change or recover a forgotten Apple ID Password?
If you've forgotten your Apple ID Password or want to change it, go to My Apple ID and follow the instructions. SeeChanging your Apple ID password if you'd like more information.
If necessary:
Forgotten Security Questions/Answers
You need to contact Apple by:
1 - Use the Express lane and start here:
https://expresslane.apple.com
then click More Products and Services>Apple ID>Other Apple ID Topics>Forgotten Apple ID security questions.
or
Apple - Support -form iTunes Store - Contact Us
2 - Call Apple in your country by getting the number from here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
or
Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security
3 - Use your rescue email address if you set one up
Rescue email address and how to reset Apple ID security questions
For general information see:
Apple ID: All about Apple ID security questions -
I got my Sony VAIO laptop just before christmas and downloaded itunes from this website onto it. But every few days it resets itself and all my music, playlists and the genius sidebar disappear. To fix it I just drag and drop all the stuff in the itunes music folder back into itunes, but it's very frustrating and I shouldn't have to do it. I never experienced this with my home computer which also operates on vista. Has anyone experienced this and is there a way to fix it?
The Sony Media Management software is causing a conflict with itunes.
See redkeefy's post here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8515870 -
Help, My P'book has reset itself-I cant find any of my doc/itunes/iphoto?
My Powerbook has reset itself and i cant find any of my doc's/iphoto's/itunes, etc. the lot please help?
I have had my powerbook G4 for one year and about 6 weeks ago I installed Tiger and all was well, unpluged my powerbook and shut it down compleatly befor taking it to work. When i got there I powered the Mac up only to find that my desk top was back to the original setting the dock had moved and resized itself but the contents remained the same!
On trying to open up any of my work doc's I found they were not to be found, all applications where empty - contents just gone?
Worst thing is i have been a fool and not made and back up files.
The powerbook works fine I just dont understand it?
Please help I dont know what to do?
G4 Powerbook 1.5 Mac OS X (10.4.1) Upgraded from 10.3.4Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Since you don't have a backup, my first suggestion is to get an external Firewire hard drive and Prosoft Data Rescue.
It may be able to recover the information.
If you think you might have moved the User folder, or one of its subfolders by mistake, or named it something different, there is this article which can help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854
Though if your Applications are gone, I'm not sure that it will. Still take a look and see if that's what your issue is. -
My iphone 4 recently reset itself to factory settings and I lost everything...contacts, pictures, itunes, apps. I managed ON MY OWN thanks to NO HELP from apple to figure out how to restore most of my apps and some of my ITUNES music. However I lost all of my games standings and that was a lot of money that I spent on upgrading games and such and quite a few of my songs. Is there away to research what i purchased and maybe get credited or something?
Connect the iPod to your computer and let it charge for a couple of hours. The try to backup the iPod
iOS: How to back up and restore your content
Then
Photos
- If they are in an iPod backup then restore an iPod, iPhone or iPad from that backup. See the restore topic of:
iOS: How to back up
- If they are in the iTunes backup then get them from the backup by:
Recover iPhone, iPad or iPod photos from backups with Picturescue
or
iPhone Backup Extractor for Windows and Mac
- If you used PhotoStream then try getting them from your PhotoStream. See that topic of:
iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
To try to make your iPod work see the following. It may end up erasing the iPod:
Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar -
My iPhone reset itself and is now asking me to reconfigure it. I connected it to my computer to do it on iTunes, but it says that it can't... It went back to the configure screen as it was when I first got it but I've had this phone for about half a year. It was fully functional until about yesterday. Someone help.
Hello Helpstar,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
Depending on the message you got in iTunes I would recommend the troubleshooting in this article named:
iTunes: Specific update-and-restore error messages and advanced troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694
Regards,
Sterling -
I have recently updated my iPhone to ISO6, since then i can not locate my purchased ringtones on either iTunes or the phone itself but they do appear in my billing history. How do i retrieve these?
You only get one download.
Did you fail to save them to your computer and back them up. -
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