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I have way more music than will fit on any one hard drive (I even have a 500GB drive) and so the music spans 3 different hard drives.
iTunes keeps track of what music is on what drive until I move music from one drive (volume) to another. Then it loses track.
Previously when I have done this, I make sure the volume iTunes is using is set (in iTunes Preferences) to my source drive -- then I move the files -- then I change that setting to the destination drive -- iTunes chugs for a while displaying an "Updating iTunes Music Library..." dialogue. When it's done, iTunes knows where I moved the files.
This got me confident so I moved a bunch of files around among 3 different drives and told iTunes to switch volumes again, thinking it would find out where the files moved to. DIDN'T WORK.
So then I got to thinking maybe it only checks to see if a file moved FROM the volume originally listed in iTunes Preferences TO the volume you just changed it to.
So I changed iTunes Preferences a couple of times to see if that worked but it still wouldn't find where I moved the files to.
At the point I have NO IDEA what "Updating iTunes Music Library..." is doing.
Aside from editing the XML iTunes database manually (which I don't want to do) is there a way to do this in iTunes reliably?
Does Apple think people don't need to move their files around to different drives?
iTunes keeps track of what music is on what drive until I move music from one drive (volume) to another. Then it loses track.
Previously when I have done this, I make sure the volume iTunes is using is set (in iTunes Preferences) to my source drive -- then I move the files -- then I change that setting to the destination drive -- iTunes chugs for a while displaying an "Updating iTunes Music Library..." dialogue. When it's done, iTunes knows where I moved the files.
This got me confident so I moved a bunch of files around among 3 different drives and told iTunes to switch volumes again, thinking it would find out where the files moved to. DIDN'T WORK.
So then I got to thinking maybe it only checks to see if a file moved FROM the volume originally listed in iTunes Preferences TO the volume you just changed it to.
So I changed iTunes Preferences a couple of times to see if that worked but it still wouldn't find where I moved the files to.
At the point I have NO IDEA what "Updating iTunes Music Library..." is doing.
Aside from editing the XML iTunes database manually (which I don't want to do) is there a way to do this in iTunes reliably?
Does Apple think people don't need to move their files around to different drives?