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Q: Greyed out: "Upgrade to iTunes media organization"

Hi,

 

Right now, when I look in my ~Music/iTunes/ folder, I can see both iTunes Media, and iTunes Music. I read around and it seems that the first is the new way of organizing, and the second is the old.

 

But the problem is that for me, the iTunes Music folder still has most of my music, while the .../iTunes Media/Music/ folder has a few recent additions — maybe about 15 albums.

 

Why do you think this is? My iTunes library has been consolidated for as long as I can remember.

 

I tried to solve it by looking in the preferences for the "Upgrade to iTunes media organization" option, however, for me it's greyed out!

 

It won't let me do it. I've read around that this supposedly means that it has been done — but judging from how my iTunes music is organized, it hasn't.

 

How do I reset this counter? What's the best way to solve this problem? I wouldn't want to re-set play counts or import dates of my music...

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 20, 2011 6:41 PM

by Chris CA,Solvedanswer
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A:

ghoeton wrote:

 

Guys

I have a similar problem. But I am trying to move my entire library to an external hard drive to save space on my main drive.

  1. Quit iTunes.
  2. Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder to the external.
  3. Hold the Option keuy and launch iTunes.
  4. Select Choose library and select the iTunes folder you copied to the external in step 2.
  5. Delete the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder on the internal.
  6. This is all you need to do.

Posted on Jun 10, 2012 9:01 AM

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  • by Rudolfensis,

    Rudolfensis Rudolfensis Aug 20, 2011 8:37 PM in response to Rudolfensis
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    Aug 20, 2011 8:37 PM in response to Rudolfensis

    Update: To make the "Upgrade to iTunes media organization" option clickable, I edited the .iTunes Preferences.plist hidden file, with the integer value 0.

     

    When I start iTunes now, the option is no longer greyed out, however, when I select it and click OK. It doesn't show any progress or anything. All it does is change the integer value back to 1.

     

    So I still have iTunes Media and iTunes Music folders, both with files inside.

     

    Should I just manually merge the files from iTunes Music into iTunes Media?

     

    If I do that manual merge via Finder:

     

    - Some folders will overlap (e.g. Compilations, certain albums), so can I just merge all the files into one of these sub-folders via Finder?

     

    - Should I leave iTunes on, or should I quit it?

     

    - What other precautions should I take?

     

    - How do I force iTunes to look through all the songs and see if they're all in the right places? I know if they're not, they'll get a mark next to them... how can I make iTunes check without playing each file or whatever?

  • by Chris CA,Helpful

    Chris CA Chris CA Aug 20, 2011 8:52 PM in response to Rudolfensis
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    Aug 20, 2011 8:52 PM in response to Rudolfensis

    iTunes prefs > Advanced.

    Uncheck Keep iTunes media folder organized then click OK.

    Then iTunes prefs > Advanced and tick Keep ITunes media folder organized.

  • by Rudolfensis,

    Rudolfensis Rudolfensis Aug 20, 2011 9:02 PM in response to Chris CA
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    Aug 20, 2011 9:02 PM in response to Chris CA

    Sorry, when should I do this? After making the integer value back to 0?

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Aug 20, 2011 9:32 PM in response to Rudolfensis
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    Aug 20, 2011 9:32 PM in response to Rudolfensis

    Don't do anything with the integer.

  • by Rudolfensis,

    Rudolfensis Rudolfensis Aug 21, 2011 6:26 AM in response to Chris CA
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    Aug 21, 2011 6:26 AM in response to Chris CA

    iTunes prefs > Advanced.

    Uncheck Keep iTunes media folder organized then click OK.

    Then iTunes prefs > Advanced and tick Keep ITunes media folder organized.

    Thanks, I did that, but to no avail. When I rechecked the box and hit OK, iTunes started working... but weirdly the blue indicator bar stared from about two-thirds in... and not from the start:

     

    Screen Shot 2011-08-21 at 15.17.24.png (Organizing Files)

     

    It didn't take long to finish, but when it did — I took a look at the file structure of the folders, and nothing had been changed. Nothing seemed to be missing from iTunes Music, and no new additions were made to iTunes Media/Music...

     

    What do you think the problem is?

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Aug 21, 2011 9:07 AM in response to Rudolfensis
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    Aug 21, 2011 9:07 AM in response to Rudolfensis

    As you suggested, quit iTunes then you can manually drag all the music from /iTunes music/ to /iTunes media/Music/.

  • by Rudolfensis,

    Rudolfensis Rudolfensis Aug 21, 2011 9:28 AM in response to Chris CA
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    Aug 21, 2011 9:28 AM in response to Chris CA

    Thanks. Just a last post before I do that:

     

    1. Is that 100% safe? Everywhere I've read it advises against messing with stuff manually...

     

    2. Wouldn't it be better to run the Consolidate Files command? Though that would make duplicates, and simply copy over everytihing in /iTunes Music/ to /iTunes Media/Music/... no?

     

    3. And will it copy everything over 100%, thus being safe to delete the iTunes Music folder?

     

    4. How would I check that it's worked and copied everything over? How do I force iTunes to look through all the songs and see if they're all in the right places? I know if they're not, they'll get a mark next to them... how can I make iTunes check without playing each file or whatever?

     

    5. So I should quit iTunes before doing this? Shouldn't I leave it on, so that it can track where files are moved... because if I quit, it'll close thinking everything is in the iTunes Music folder... and then open, finding it doesn't exist... will it know?

  • by Chris CA,Helpful

    Chris CA Chris CA Aug 21, 2011 8:31 PM in response to Rudolfensis
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    Aug 21, 2011 8:31 PM in response to Rudolfensis

    1. Yes.

     

    2. You can try it.

    If it works, you can the delete the music folder.

     

    3. It should.

     

    4. How would I check that it's worked and copied everything over?

    Just have to check.

    You can select everything in the /iTunes music/ folder then menu File > Label it with a color.

    After it is copied over, you can see the files in the new folder.

     

    5. Yes, quit itunes first. iTunes, by default will look for the file in the original path and then look in the iTunes media folder where te  iTunes library is.

    You can try it with a few items first.

  • by Rudolfensis,

    Rudolfensis Rudolfensis Aug 21, 2011 8:42 PM in response to Chris CA
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    Aug 21, 2011 8:42 PM in response to Chris CA

    OK thanks! I will try and report back.

  • by ghoeton,

    ghoeton ghoeton Jun 10, 2012 7:52 AM in response to Rudolfensis
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    Jun 10, 2012 7:52 AM in response to Rudolfensis

    Guys

    I have a similar problem. But I am trying to move my entire library to an external hard drive to save space on my main drive. I have "consolidate" which I can click but I have no "upgrade to itunes media organisation button" anywhere? When I open up itunes it does nor go to the new location? It opens like a new copy of itunes. Also, the files in the new location are all there but in a different set-up? Any ideas?

  • by Chris CA,Solvedanswer

    Chris CA Chris CA Jun 10, 2012 9:01 AM in response to ghoeton
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    Jun 10, 2012 9:01 AM in response to ghoeton

    ghoeton wrote:

     

    Guys

    I have a similar problem. But I am trying to move my entire library to an external hard drive to save space on my main drive.

    1. Quit iTunes.
    2. Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder to the external.
    3. Hold the Option keuy and launch iTunes.
    4. Select Choose library and select the iTunes folder you copied to the external in step 2.
    5. Delete the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder on the internal.
    6. This is all you need to do.