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<blockquote data-quote="ArrowJ" data-source="post: 953030" data-attributes="member: 127625"><p>There may be some workarounds for you. First, if you are using Safari I would recommend you download Firefox and use it instead. Within Firefox's preferences you can tell it to always ask you where to put files you download from within the browser. </p><p></p><p>For content that you purchase from within iTunes you have less control up front. By default all your content will be stored in Users/"username"/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music (see attached image). You can change this directory by clicking on the "Change" button, but there isn't a lot of good reasons to do so because Time Machine WILL include this directory by default (as will Carbonite) or any backup solution worth its salt.</p><p></p><p>Still, for content you download manually you can simply create the directories you wish to store the files in, and as long as the "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" checkbox is unticked, they will stay there even though they are listed in iTunes, but when you think about it, this means you will have more directories to backup instead of less and it makes things harder, and less intuitive, not easier.</p><p></p><p>If you tick the checkbox for "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" AND the checkbox for "Keep iTunes Media folder organized", not only will all your content be consolidated into one parent directory (Music), it will also be organized into directories such as podcasts, artists, etc. If there is certain content you want to share with family often (say a podcast), you can simply navigate to the directory that iTunes stores it in and create an alias to it which you can then drop some place more convenient for you like your Documents directory or something. Then when you run a backup, everything is backed up and when you want to get to your files, you don't have to dig through the entire directory structure every time because you created an alias (shortcut in windows terminology) to it.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]11706[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ArrowJ, post: 953030, member: 127625"] There may be some workarounds for you. First, if you are using Safari I would recommend you download Firefox and use it instead. Within Firefox's preferences you can tell it to always ask you where to put files you download from within the browser. For content that you purchase from within iTunes you have less control up front. By default all your content will be stored in Users/"username"/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music (see attached image). You can change this directory by clicking on the "Change" button, but there isn't a lot of good reasons to do so because Time Machine WILL include this directory by default (as will Carbonite) or any backup solution worth its salt. Still, for content you download manually you can simply create the directories you wish to store the files in, and as long as the "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" checkbox is unticked, they will stay there even though they are listed in iTunes, but when you think about it, this means you will have more directories to backup instead of less and it makes things harder, and less intuitive, not easier. If you tick the checkbox for "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" AND the checkbox for "Keep iTunes Media folder organized", not only will all your content be consolidated into one parent directory (Music), it will also be organized into directories such as podcasts, artists, etc. If there is certain content you want to share with family often (say a podcast), you can simply navigate to the directory that iTunes stores it in and create an alias to it which you can then drop some place more convenient for you like your Documents directory or something. Then when you run a backup, everything is backed up and when you want to get to your files, you don't have to dig through the entire directory structure every time because you created an alias (shortcut in windows terminology) to it. [ATTACH=full]11706[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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