Problems w/Automatically Add to iTunes & Permissions in Win7 64

I've got the same problem on 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium. I have not tried disabling UAC because, even if it did work, I'm not prepared to run with UAC disabled. Hopefully, Apple will notice and fix the problem.

Same problem in XP 32-bit SP3. It duplicates the adds in the iTunes library, whilenever actually adding or copying the files into the library folders. It started for me immediately after upgrading iTunes to the latest 10.2.2.12 build yesterday.

Another observation: When I set my iTunes folder as the path in preferences, I expected all of my mp3s to start populating in my Library, but they never did. However, I just now dropped a single mp3 into the AATI folder, and it immediatley appeared in the library. Weird.

Actually this is the normal behaviour.

When you set the iTunes media fodler location, it only affects new additions to your library. Old tracks are not moved.

You can copy everything into the new iTunes Media folder using the Consoldate function in library on the File menu.

See:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1364?viewlocale=en_US

I have the same problem

I have used iTunes 64bit in windows 7 for along time and i often drop new videos in the "D:\iTunes Library\Automatically Add to iTunes" folder

how ever recently i noticed my newest vides were showing up mulitmple times in the iTunes Library and that made me notice the files fail to get moved into their corresponding locations

I suspected database corrupction or something of that sort, so i uninstalled itunes, delted all metadata and moved the media files to a different folder. Reinstalled itunes, wich created a new itunes media folder and began moving files to the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder again.

I worked quite well for audobooks, books, and mp3 and aac files (we are talking thousands of files)

but it failed for m4v and mp4 files. Some of these are downloaded from itunes U, itunes store and others are my own encodes

it CANNOT be a permission issue because it works for music and fails for video

also, this started to happen sometime around 10.2.1 or 10.2.2 .. never had this problem before, and i use this features all the time.

Hope someone from apple helps

BTW, i testes some of the same files in itunes 10.2.2 for snow leopard, it works perfectly, moves the files as expected and reads the metadata as expected

ok so while typing my previous post, it occured to me that I should try an earlier iTunes version

luckly i had a few previous installers lying around

so I went back to version 10.1.2 for 64-bit windows

and the problem disapeared, so i guess i'm sticking to 10.1.2 until a new version comes and I read somewhere that it fixes this problem

I have the identical problem. Also Windows 7 64-bit. It only happened after the 10.2.2 update.

I've also noticed that podcasts don't get moved to their correct folders either.

Have the exact same problem on a Windows 7 machine. Videos added to 'automatically add to itunes' are being loaded multiple times in 'My Videos', and are not being deleted from the automatically add to itunes folder.

Appears to be a security problem, since the owner of the AATI folder is set at 'unknown' after itunes uses it, but is back to me after rebooting the machine. Don't want to screw with the security settings, since it appears to be an Apple software problem.

Nothing changed except updating itunes. AATI is definately broken, and will try going back to an previous version of itunes.

I would say it is highly unlikely that it is a security issue, since it works perfectly for music and ebooks and fails for videos only. A permissions issue would cause the same failure for any files dropped into that folder.

It isn't restricted to WIn7-64 either. Someone above mentioned the problem on an XP machine, and I am having the same problem on a Vista machine. There are a few threads on this problem, all starting with the 10.2.2 update. 10.2.1 can be obtained at oldapps dot com

Same issue here, was working fine until the last Itunes update. I'm on a 64bit Win 7 pro.

However, I should mention, the file does get moved from the AATI folder most of the time. But it still create multiple entries in the Itunes library.

I have no answers but am here to say "me too" on my Win 7 64 bit system. This was not a problem in previous versions of iTunes.