Itunes has changed all my music folders!

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Itunes has changed all my music folders!

It has taken all my folders and mixed up all the music and created folders by artist. This has ruined about 10 years worth of careful organising my music in to folders by Genre then Artist (audiobooks, stuff for teaching, study, music etc) Does anyone know how to put it back to how it was???

I see this is a common isue. I have looked up previous questions and the concensus seems to be that it's because the "Keep iTunes Music folder organised" box is ticked?

Mine is NOT ticked! So why has it done it and how can I reverse this?

Windows 7

Posted on Nov 8, 2012 12:48 PM

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turingtest2

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Nov 8, 2012 1:07 PM in response to Jean Valjean 24601

iTunes keeps no memory of the previous folders things were in so no obvious way to reverse the change. iTunes shouldn't move your files about if that option isn't ticked except if you use the option File > Library > Organize Library > Rearrange files in the folder "iTunes Media" (or you "consolidated", in which case the originals would still be in place). If it's not that then I've no idea why it did what it did. Ideally you would have a backup to recover from such a situation.

If your files are all correctly tagged with their respective genres so that it is easy to identify "audiobooks", "teaching", "study" etc. within iTunes then you could modify my script ConsolidateByMoving to move selected files to precisely where you want them.

tt2

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