Make Movies Show up in Itunes

I'm streaming a folder on my computer to my ATV. In Itunes i have the folder listed as my music location under preferences (ie. C:\Shared) Can anyone tell me why when i copy a movie into the folder Itunes will not see the new movie i copied in unless i choose File --> Add Folder to Library (each time i copy a new movie to the folder). Then Itunes will see the files and so will ATV. The problem is I dont want to manually have to add the folder again everytime i copy a movie into the folder. (multiple users have access to the folder so new movies are copied into it regularly) Any ideas? Thanks.

As far as I know, there is no way to get iTunes to continually (or even periodically) check it's folders to see if there are new files there. iTunes is designed to be used to have files added THROUGH it, so when files are added into iTunes by other programs or Windows Explorer, etc, it won't see them until you manually tell it to LOOK for them.
It kinda stinks that you can't have it check every hour or something, but it might be possible to look into writing a script to do just that. But I'd be wary of any script like that, personally, because it would always have the possibility of easily becoming an unending loop of checking, or just slow your computer down horribly. But on the other hand, if written correctly, it might work really well.

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Yes, you can burn them to DVD and remove them from your PC's hard drive, but not from the Movie list in the iTunes window.
If you try to play them in itunes, you'll get a ! +file not found, would you like to locate it+ ? message.
Then pop your DVD in and browse to the file on the DVD, and it should play, as long as the DVD is there.
You could also store the movies on an external hard drive and do the same thing.

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I have noticed that some new movies that show up in iTunes take a week or 2 longer to show up on Apple TV. Whats the deal? Also, can I rent the movies from my PC with iTunes and watch them on the ATV?

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JSS2457 wrote:
Good luck with your problem.
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Start with these articles and see if that gets you anywhere (yes I know some of these you already tried) ...
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305136
iTunes for Windows: iTunes 7 doesn't recognize iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304434
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1363
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61711
Also you might try forcing the iPod into disk mode first, then connecting it to your computer and see if that makes it show up in iTunes...
Putting iPod into Disk Mode
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
Windows confuses iPod with network drive or hard drive and may keep iPod from mounting or songs may seem to disappear
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1493
Also this semi-recent interesting post by a user here for a work around when an iPod is in the "recovery mode" looping state...
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304434
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61711
Also you might try forcing the iPod into disk mode first, then connecting it to your computer and see if that makes it show up in iTunes...
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
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Well start with these articles and see if that gets you anywhere...
iPod is not recognized properly by computer when USB drivers are not installed properly or are out of date
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305136
iTunes for Windows: iTunes 7 doesn't recognize iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304434
iPod missing in "My Computer" or in iTunes for Windows
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61711
Also you might try forcing the iPod into disk mode first, then connecting it to your computer and see if that makes it show up in iTunes...
Putting iPod into Disk Mode
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
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Well start with these articles and see if that gets you anywhere...
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305136
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61711
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
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Well start with these articles and see if that gets you anywhere...
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305136
iTunes for Windows: iTunes 7 doesn't recognize iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304434
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61711
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
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Canned response, so some of the below stuff you already tried, so ignore those ones...
Start with these articles and see if that gets you anywhere...
iPod is not recognized properly by computer when USB drivers are not installed properly or are out of date
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305136
iTunes for Windows: iTunes 7 doesn't recognize iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304434
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1363
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61711
Also you might try forcing the iPod into disk mode first, then connecting it to your computer and see if that makes it show up in iTunes...
Putting iPod into Disk Mode
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
Windows confuses iPod with network drive or hard drive and may keep iPod from mounting or songs may seem to disappear
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1493
Also this semi-recent interesting post by a user here for a work around when an iPod is in the "recovery mode" looping state...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1679535&tstart=0
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
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