Q: What is the default iTune Folder Structure for iTunes 10?

Thanks tt2, haven't had a chance to get back to the new PC today, and not sure quite when I will due to work commitments but will post here if I run into trouble.  I suspect my *old* PC - the one on which I'm typing - had some level of redundancy in the music infrastructure due to building my initial library aaaaaaaages ago with WinMediaPlayer and then changing to iTunes, (I never did quite sort out what the heck was going on in terms of whether actual files were duplicated or just file pointers) so I think I might be better to thin things out at the source prior to transfer this time.  Which in itself seems a waste of time given I expect to say farewell to old-PC-san.  We shall see.  But doumo arigatou gozaimasu, anata wa totemo yasashii desu... as my fellow Japanesians would say (thankyou very much, you're very kind).

Regards,

Chris

No worries... There are links to my deduping tool and the guide to preparing a library to make it portable earlier in this thread. Always happy to expand on anything that doesn't make sense. Good luck.

tt2

I have the latest iTunes program.  I put all my content on an external hard drive and was working OK.  Eveytime I launched iTunes it asked me the the new location and i pointed it there and all good.  However there were some videos missing.  I went int to the file structure and founf the missing files.  I re-pointed iTunes to the new files but then it lost the other files.

when concluding the actions, it asks me if i wanted to rename file I think.  I initially said no but then it looked like nothing had changed.  So did it again and said YES.

It now appears I have multiple file structures in iTunes Media.  I think I have it 3 times.  When I try and point the 'choose library', when i've done it, it can't now find the content.

I have timecapsule and was going to 'go back' but could see how to do this just for itunes.  I can 'Restore the whole computer I gues but there must be an easy way to get back to a clean copy on the HD?

Any suggestions please?

Thanks

You mention TimeCapsule so is this a Mac?

You shoudn't need to reconnect iTunes to your library, or the library to the media every time you start iTunes, that hints at a problem updating preference files. Also setting a media folder path doesn't automatically reconnect the library to the media. Changing that path tells iTunes where to put new content, not where old content might have been moved to.

Where are your library files located? Where is the media folder as defined by iTunes > Preferences > Advanced? What other paths hold media?

tt2