automatically add to iTunes

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automatically add to iTunes

I have trawled through several versions of this question but none of them seems to apply to my situation.

It just 'doesn't do what it says on the tin'; anything dragged into this file in my Finder just sits there. I have closed iTunes and opened it again but they are still just sitting there. Are there some parameters that I am supposed to set up or is it just supposed to work 'automatically'? Thank for any help.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4GB SDRA

Posted on Jul 23, 2012 1:27 PM

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Answer 1

turingtest2

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Jul 25, 2012 12:50 PM in response to Ron Bailey

Perhaps a permissions issue is making them invisible to iTunes. Or the alias is to an Automatically Add to iTunes folder that isn't the one inside the active iTunes Media folder. What path is listed under iTunes > Preferences > Advanced?

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turingtest2

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Jul 23, 2012 2:03 PM in response to varjak paw

... or designated a different media folder.

Check under iTunes > Preferences > Advanced.

( Oops. I see you covered that after all 🙂 )

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varjak paw

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Jul 23, 2012 1:56 PM in response to Ron Bailey

Just to confirm, you're referring to the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder in the iTunes Music/Media folder, correct? And you haven't moved that folder out of the iTunes folder?

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Ron Bailey Author

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Jul 23, 2012 2:15 PM in response to varjak paw

I am referring to a folder that has appeared in my Finder window under Favorites with the title "Automatically Add to iTunes". I presume that is an 'alias'? for the folder /Users/RonB3/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music. When I check this using Finder I can find the folder in iTunes/iTunes Music/Automatically Add to iTunes and in that folder are 9 mp3s that I dragged there from my Download folder.

But they are just sitting there. Having used 'search' in iTunes I can't find these files and I don't seem to be able to access them in iTunes itself. I expected them to be physically 'moved' from the folder into iTunes itself but that does not seem to have happened. How do these dragged files become accessible to me in iTunes?

Thanks for you help.

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Ron Bailey Author

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Jul 25, 2012 12:15 PM in response to Ron Bailey

Any suggestions folks? Thanks.

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