Moving a Folder from the iTunes Folder to My Own File Structure
I'm trying to move a folder from the default iTunes folder to a folder on another drive where I am managing the file structure. This allows me to file music as I would like to on the disk an makes things much easier to find when I need to.
Recently I've noticed that when I do this I lose some of the song meta data such as the image and rating which is kind of annoying. Is there any way to do this and not lose meta data?
If the external drive is in NTFS format (which is how most new drives are shipped), the Mac can't write to it. Reformat it with Disk Utility, putting it into Mac OS Extended format.
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ps I used to be able to create my own "Ringtones" via iTunes and songs I had in iTunes, but they took that away I guess.
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Here are the steps:
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Apple ID FAQs > http://support.apple.com/kb/HE37 -
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