Powerbook trashed my music folder think i have a ghost in my machine!

this is the second time my aging ti867 has done this to me, im using this machine purely as a music server and have spent a lot of time bringing all my music over from all my other machines. So here's what happens, I bring some of my music over, import into itunes and then delete the folder on my desktop, when I empty trash my computer has put my entire music folder in trash and I accidently delete my entire music collection, it has done this twice to me so far. Im pretty sure now that I haven't accidently binned my music folder and the machine is responsible but how could this be?. I'm thinking that I'll re install tiger and try process again.
thanks for looking

Before you import, go into preferences and make sure that "Copy songs to iTunes Music Folder when adding to library" is checked. If you don't have that, it adds the songs from where they are, which is the desktop in your case.

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Simply. Yes.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748

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For your convenience, here's a photo too!
http://flickr.com/photos/verushka26/2311957380/in/photostream/
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I have a very similar problem. Hope I don't confuse people trying to help us since the solutions may be different.
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You say
I don't quite understand why more people aren't sympathetic to what Christopher is saying.
When someone's understanding of what is happening and what is not is flawed, it is hard to make sense of it all... now do not get me wrong as I have no axe to grind but your own understanding is not quite right as well... I will explain...
Apple's current system of saving other media (in this case video) to the MUSIC folder makes storage difficult..
Think of another file, say an Appleworks document, you create it and you save it... where do you save it ?... the program will suggest somewhere based upon file type but you choose where it goes in the end...
The same basic principles are at work here in iTunes... you create it (rip) and you save it (location ?) the only change is you decide in advance where you want files stored by setting the location for newly added files in the preference settings...
the result is exactly the same as all other files on your computer...
and as I said earlier "when ripping or importing files a copy is automatically placed in the nominated location, you have no say in this...
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Finally Steve what do you mean by this statement ?
We cannot split our iTunes music Library between two drives (or partitions)..
Why not thousands of other do this all the time including me...
take care Steve .... TP

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