aurelia, it might be worth deleting the aliases in your itunes library and starting over from scratch. allowing the library to relearn where all your songs are could fix it.
Gwen: Demon, OK? The whole nine—cloven feet and horns and teeth. He wasn't wearing lamé though. Lorne: Yeah, the evil ones can't pull it off. It gets camp.
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esse - May 02, 2007 12:11:31 am PDT #1449 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
le nubian - May 02, 2007 4:10:30 am PDT #1450 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I think what you need to do is go back, re-specify your itunes library, check keep itunes library organized.
Then go to Advanced --> Consolidate Library
tommyrot - May 02, 2007 10:55:23 am PDT #1451 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
aurelia - May 02, 2007 3:27:21 pm PDT #1452 of 25496
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I've tried the suggestions from SA and le nubian. Now I have a completely empty iTunes library.
I also tried replacing the iTunes music folder on the hard drive with an alias of the iTunes music folder on the external drive. No love.
I'm at a loss.
How about the firewire connection question? Can I connect the iPod thru the external drive?
-t - May 02, 2007 3:33:17 pm PDT #1453 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Can I connect the iPod thru the external drive?
That's what I do, but my external drive also calls itself a hub, so I'm not sure how universal that answer is. It seems like it should work, though, you're just daisy chaining peripherals.
Edited because I remembered something possibly important. At least on mine, to use the firewire ports on the drive, it has to be connect to the computer via firewire, ditto for USB, so if your iPod cable is firewire you should be golden. So to speak.
-t - May 02, 2007 3:37:15 pm PDT #1454 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, also, did you try leaving the original iTunes folder on the computer in place, and putting an alias to the folder on the drive inside of it? Replacing didn't work for me, but nesting did.
aurelia - May 02, 2007 4:12:14 pm PDT #1455 of 25496
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Nesting didn't work either.
Ooooh. I may have it. Add to Library, select folder. Things are showing up in the library. Once it's done processing the nearly 6000 tracks I'll be able to see if I've lost playlists, ratings and comments.
le nubian - May 02, 2007 4:49:17 pm PDT #1456 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
anyone have any joost invitations? If so, I would love one sent to profile addy. I will pay the favor forward!
esse - May 03, 2007 3:09:11 am PDT #1457 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Ooooh. I may have it. Add to Library, select folder. Things are showing up in the library. Once it's done processing the nearly 6000 tracks I'll be able to see if I've lost playlists, ratings and comments.
er, that's what I meant for you to do, but I didn't explain it well or clearly. sorry, aurelia, but I'm glad you figured it out.
Kalshane - May 03, 2007 2:21:47 pm PDT #1458 of 25496
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I need some Mac (sort of) help.
New job has both PCs and Macs (running Tiger), both platforms printing off one of two Windows print servers (the Macs have DAVE 6.2 installed to help with this) . One of those print servers is going away soon and we need to migrate everyone on it to the new server. How the frak do I find what server a Mac is printing from? (The queues are duplicated on each server, so the queue name doesn't help any.).
In Windows you just have to open up Printers and Faxes and each printer tells you in the name what server its connected to. I've checked every frickin' place I can think of on the Macs we have and can't find any indicator and my Google-fu is apparently too weak. I'd really rather not have to remove and remap all the printers on our 30-something Macs "Just in case" they're on the wrong server.
Any thoughts?