I realise some people are going to say ‘what itunes, still’, but for those who do any chance of some advice? Yesterday I opened it as normal and it had changed Edit/Preferences/itunes media folder location from my hard drive to C: and thus could not find any songs as they are all on the hard drive. changing it to the external hard drive in this dialogue box doesn’t work, and everything I close and reopen it it resets to the C:UsersmoseleymolesMusiciTunesiTunes Media instead of the desired F:Back Up Feb 2011Music which is where all the music is. Can anyone help a brother out here? A quick google suggests resetting the Music Library – but that’s not the problem it loads all the playlists, just won’t look for the music in the right place.
itunes help – keeps forgetting my media folder location
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As far as I can tell you are setting it correctly in preferences.
The issue may be that as the external drive is not connected when you open iTunes, it can’t find the drive and so it defaults to the c drive. Make sure the path is correct in preferences and then shut down iTunes and re open once the external drive connected.
Thanks for replying, have tried that @chrisf – set the external drive, click ‘ok’, shut down and reopen, go to preferences, has put the C: drive in the itunes media folder box again. And when you do change to the external, and play a track, it says it can’t find it.
It looks like there may be a bug in the recent version of iTunes for Windows (I’m a Mac user so not encountered) where the preferences are not saved probably. A workaround is to set up as a split portable library per this link….
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-7392
Discussion here….
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250295465?page=3
Stand down! Operator error, or at least not noticing my Windows 10 machine had renamed for reasons best known to itself the external drive from D: to F:. Poor iTunes looking for F and finding nothing there, which explains the default to C. Still, always good to keep you on your toes.
A tip for future reference:
Right-click the start button on the task bar, click on Computer Management and then on Disc Management under Storage on the left hand side.
Right-click on the drive where you keep your music and click on Change Drive Letter and Paths. Set the drive letter of your music disc to whatever it’s set to in iTunes Preferences and save that.
If you don’t explicitly give your drives their own letters, they’re liable to change every time you reboot while one of them is disconnected, or if it is slower than the others to start up after a reboot.
Also, it’s best to use letters a decent way up the alphabet where you can be more sure of them not clashing with something else. If you have a drive that you only use for iTunes, maybe call it the i drive and then never allocate that letter to any other drive.
iTunes on Windows – have I just wandered into the wrong ward? Just give them some dominoes and a cup of tea, they’ll forget all about in the morning.
Like it or not, if you only use iTunes to organise your music and podcasts, it’s very nice to use….. once you’ve changed all the settings so it looks like it did 10 years ago!
I know its resource hungry but when it was time to replace my Mac mini thats dedicated to the music organisation and streaming task I realised I could get a windows 10 pc for approximately 700 less ( that’s £300 instead of over £1000). Generally, it’s horses for courses. If I was starting again I’d probably choose something different but I don’t know what else it would do for me.
Twasn’t meant as a dig at you more a failed attempt at humour on my part. I’ve got me coat but not sure what to do next. Cue Moose
*wah-wah guitar* ‘You must be hot in that coat. It is hot in here’.
I hope it’s a peacoat. They’re all the rage don’t you know.
I didn’t take it as such. I’m on holiday and you’d have to push me much harder than that to break me!
Having said that, if anyone can suggest any alternative that I can seamlessly move over to that’ll allow me to point both old iPods and my Sonos system at them I’m listening.
Mine’s OK, even though the music is on a different drive to the program.
Without reading beyond the title, I will pitch in with my ususal:
“Buy a Fiio.”
Good luck!
I fail to see how pastry will resolve moley’s problem.
Particularly good pastry and the right filling could relegate his problem to a less urgent status.
Buying hardware doesn’t solve a shit software problem.
No, but I haven’t had cause to say it for a while and it’s nice to give it an airing.
At last Fenton my boy you is Wrong! Buying a Fiio sorts out every possible iTunes problem in the universe.
Great stuff guys! Looking ahead though Mac users will soon be saying goodbye to our
Favourite music manager, it’ll be on windows for some
Time yet.