ITunes is moving my music files when I play them
I am using iTunes 10.3.1. I have all of my music in a folder on an external drive attached to my Airport Extreme Base Station. I am having an awful time maintaining links between iTunes and the music files, but I understand that is because the drive keeps going to sleep and unmounting. The big problem is that when I do play a file, iTunes actually MOVES the file and creates a new folder outside of the media folder.
Structure
Seagate Drive attached to AEBS
->Central iTunes Library
->Music
->Artist Name
->Album Name
->Song File
After I play the song, I get this
Drive
->Central iTunes Library
->Music
->Artist Name (promoted to same level as the Music)
->Album Name
->Song File (No longer exists in the location described in the original structure- it has been moved)
Can anyone explain to me why this is occuring and how to stop it?
Thanks in advance
If by 'multiple' you mean 'duplicate', iTunes 6 has a "Show Duplicate Songs" option under the 'Edit' menu.
This won't delete duplicates, but it'll assist with locating them.
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