hi there --
hope one of you can help out!
a few months ago i had a user issue with my powerbook G4 (osx 10.3.9) -- i accidentally created a new user, which caused a host of problems, tho none major, thankfully. i had to reimport my itunes library (i'm using itunes 6) in order to get it to open in my new user. i finally went to the mac store yesterday to pare things back down to a single user so i was no longer having to open various things from different places. the guy there said that my computer was defaulting to User #2, rather than its initial User #1, and he recommended moving everything from #1 to #2, then just deleting User #1.
this seemed to go okay, but when i opened itunes only part of my music was there. to make a long, long story short, i managed to manually get all of my music into User #2/music/itunes/itunes music -- every song is in its correct album, under the correct artist. all of it is visible in my Finder, my itunes preferences show that my target location is User #2/music/itunes/itunes music. but when i launch itunes the library does not show all of the songs. if i go into the finder and open an individual song that i cannot see in the itunes library, i can double click on it and then that song will export to the itunes, begin to play, and i can see it get added to the library. so this action seems to get the song into the library, but i have maybe 1000 songs i'd have to individually do this with. obviously, i want to find a quicker way.
does anyone know how i can get all of the info in the music folders to be automatically reflected in the itunes library window?
thanks for any help you can offer!
hope one of you can help out!
a few months ago i had a user issue with my powerbook G4 (osx 10.3.9) -- i accidentally created a new user, which caused a host of problems, tho none major, thankfully. i had to reimport my itunes library (i'm using itunes 6) in order to get it to open in my new user. i finally went to the mac store yesterday to pare things back down to a single user so i was no longer having to open various things from different places. the guy there said that my computer was defaulting to User #2, rather than its initial User #1, and he recommended moving everything from #1 to #2, then just deleting User #1.
this seemed to go okay, but when i opened itunes only part of my music was there. to make a long, long story short, i managed to manually get all of my music into User #2/music/itunes/itunes music -- every song is in its correct album, under the correct artist. all of it is visible in my Finder, my itunes preferences show that my target location is User #2/music/itunes/itunes music. but when i launch itunes the library does not show all of the songs. if i go into the finder and open an individual song that i cannot see in the itunes library, i can double click on it and then that song will export to the itunes, begin to play, and i can see it get added to the library. so this action seems to get the song into the library, but i have maybe 1000 songs i'd have to individually do this with. obviously, i want to find a quicker way.
does anyone know how i can get all of the info in the music folders to be automatically reflected in the itunes library window?
thanks for any help you can offer!