Protecting my iTunes songs from getting accidentally deleted
I am on OS X Lion 10.7.4 and iTunes 10.
I have set up a user for each member in the family.
I centralised the iTunes library into macintosh HD>users>shared>family iTunes library>iTunes library.itl
Music files are centralised in macintosh HD>users>shared>family iTunes library>iTunes media>music>
For each user I hit 'option iTunes' to choose macintosh HD>users>shared>family iTunes library>iTunes library.itl
Works well, each user sees the same library, it appears to be completely transparent.
I am now concerned my 5 year old son might accidentally delete my precious songs.
I tried assigning read only access for him to macintosh HD>users >shared, I find he can still delete music files.
Any advice on how I can let my 5YO son have full access to this iTunes library without allowing him permission to delete?
I have a similar requirement for iPhoto too.
Thanks
Ramond0
This happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes .
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