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downloaded music not copying to music folder

I recently moved my iTunes to an external hard drive to be exclusively used there. It is going well, with one exception. When I download music, it is not copying to the music folder. It is downloading into the library/main page of the application. I went into iTunes preferences, advanced, and checked "copy music to iTunes media folder". But that did not do it. So I changed the name of the iTunes music folder to media folder, and that didn't work either. Can anyone help me? Please? Thank you.

Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Posted on Jul 13, 2012 1:41 PM

63 replies

Jul 17, 2012 12:56 PM in response to turingtest2

Everything seems great now and working as it should. I downloaded a new song from iTunes to be sure it copied into media/music, and it did. Oddly, music previously purchased (purchased before the move to ehd) is missing from everywhere, included the "purchased" place on iTunes. But I'm not concerned about it; I'm pretty sure I will be able to retrieve.

thank you so much for your patience and help. you are the best. 😀

turingtest2

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Jul 17, 2012 1:39 PM in response to Elizabeth Ploog

You're welcome. 🙂

In future you can Move any other music files you find on your computer (that you aren't absolutely certain are dupes) into the Automatically Add to iTunes folder and then use the Show Exact Duplicates feature to dedupe again.

tt2

Limnos

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Jul 17, 2012 2:03 PM in response to turingtest2

Yay TT2!!

downloaded music not copying to music folder