Library consolidation halfway through

Question

Hey out there
I just tried to consolidate my iTunes library, which started fine, but when i was nearly halfway through it stopped and showed the following error message:
"Copying files failed. The file name was invalid og too long".
I got MPEG files and AAC sound files, and both of them have been copied, so i don't think that's the problem.
Anyone experienced the same and got a solution?
The reason i wanted to consolidate, was to get option, to delete my music files directly from iTunes.

Answer 1

kraller1992 wrote:
How do I open Consolidation fix?
I had a look and it should just be a matter of downloading the zip file from that site, extracting ConsolidationFix.js to any location of you choice, then double clicking the script to run it.
The script lists all files that have filenames in excess of 130 characters. I don't let iTunes manage my file & folder names but I'd be surprised if that in itself causes a problem. I can certainly consolidate such a file under both Windows XP and Windows 7 so that can't be an accurate method of determining which files won't consolidate.
There could be problems with permissions or if your target media folder is nested really deeply then path the file would move to, if consolidated, could exceed 255 chars which would cause problems. Since iTunes for Windows uses a maximum of 40 characters for file and folder names I'd expect to see occasional problems if the path to your media folder were in the order of 125 characters.
It might be the "invalid" reason has more to do with things, but again I'm not certain what iTunes would generate that would also be "invalid" since all the usual problem characters are translated to underscores.
tt2