Somehow, in the long and twisted history of my iTunes Library, which has moved from Mac to PC and back again, I ended up with my Library divided between a folder labeled ‘iTunesMusic’ and another labeled ‘iTunes Music’, both within “iTunes Library”.
It’s doubtless been this way for some time, but I only noticed it today. It seems to work fine. Even so I used the iTunes 9 File:Library tool to both consolidate and rationalize to the newish library hierarchy.
It seems to be copying everything over, when it’s done I’ll copy ‘iTunesMusic’ to an external drive and save it – just in case something was missed.
It would be nice if this was somehow related to iTunes not updating last played data on some of my podcasts …
Update 10/8/09: The iTunes Consolidate feature worked well. I deleted my iTunesMusic folder and didn't have any problems (I had backed up of course). This didn't solve the problem with the iPhone "not updating last played" bug -- this is a frustrating and longstanding bug that Apple has to fix.
I am suffering with same problem that I am still waiting for solution. Please if you get please share with me.
ReplyDeleteI updated my post a bit. Did you mean you have the 'last played' bug or the split library bug?
ReplyDeleteThere's no workaround for the 'last played' bug -- Apple has to fix it. The frustrating bit is that it's an old bug and they've gone through one major and one minor update without a fix.