An "invisible" song

I had the same problem then moving mp.4 to an external BU drive, all I had to do was remove any spaces in the title, thenput the spaces back and it would then copy to the BU drive. Hope this helps

Another way is to remove the invisible file by

Open Finder

Open the Utilities folder

Open a terminal window

Copy and paste the following line in:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES - Press return

hold ‘alt’ on the keyboard and right click on the Finder icon

Click on Relaunch

You should find you will now be able to see any hidden files or folders. One you are done, perform the steps above however, replace the terminal command in step 4 with:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO

i just had the same problem. what i di was drag the song to the desktop the make a duplicate. the duplicate could be dragged to the external device

All I do is add a few letters to the end of the song title then retry. works every time.

CORRECT - changing the file name fixes it. BEST ANSWER

This also worked for me! Thanks very much.

Thank you. Much more simple than terminal thing, plus, you get the song to be named nicely. Cheers.

Thanks for the tip - it works - just change the file name to not having any spaces and I can drag my iTunes files directly to the folder. What a strange quirk with the Mac!

Thank you! This was a simple solution.

I had a very simple solution when I had 2 song titles in iTunes that gave the message "Can't be Replaced because it's invisable" when dragged to the iPod icon.

Solution: -- I clicked on one song title, then clicked on edit and copy, then saved the song title into my Documents. I then changed the song title slightly on the icon in Dosuments, and then dragged this icon over to my iPod icon. The song was saved. The same act was successful with the second song.

Actually I would be interested to know why this invisible file nonsense never used to happen until recently.

I simply used to drag and drop whatever i wanted from iTunes into a folder or usb drive etc and no problems.

Now it's changed - why?

Perhaps a bug introduced by the interminable upgrades to iTunes or ios or osx.

Perhaps Apple would be kind enough to comment?

cjwj

All this changing ONE file name if it only occurs occasionally is all fine and good, obviously iTunes is cataloging the songs a different way than the Finder is used to; actually I think the REAL issue here is this: I have FOUR GIGABYTES I wanted to copy onto a USB drive to take to my other non-networked Mac, and it stops because a few are according to the Finder, "Invisible". On that premise I went into the preferences, and LO AND BEHOLD!!! The option for iTunes to keep the library organized was ON.

What I did after that:

-Unchecked the Keep Files Organized option

-Quit iTunes (then let it save the library)

-Reopened iTunes

-Tried copying the full 4 Gb into a folder on the desktop

SUCCESS.

Happy Mac-ing 🙂

Awesome!!! Thanks!!!

thank you!!