Dragging music from itunes to finder...

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Dragging music from itunes to finder...

Hi all -

When I select and drag a bunch of music from itunes to finder, it often fails to copy if I select too many files. For example, I may want to copy 400 songs to finder, and it will fail unless I do it in 50 song chunks.

Very rarely it will work. Also, occasionally I will isolate a song that will not copy to finder no matter what.

An ideas? Is there another way to copy the fles from a playlist - perhaps using the shell or applescript?

Any advice apreciated!

sA

Posted on Oct 25, 2006 5:12 AM

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macmenno

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Oct 25, 2006 5:52 AM in response to sallantor

The problem is related to the file name.
If you're trying to copy songs which have the same file name, copying fails (no message, nothing).

You won't always be able to find the duplicate names using the 'Show Duplicate' command in iTunes, because the songs can belong to different artists.
If the files names of different songs happens to be the same, copying will fail too.

The copy command is directed to the Finder, but it will not warn you about duplicate file names. It just fails.

M

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sallantor Author

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Oct 25, 2006 6:37 AM in response to macmenno

Very interesting theory - not sure that this applies to me though...

If I copy the songs in chunks, it seems to work fine, with all the files being successfully copied (the file count matches). I do not get a message asking me if I want to rename or overwrite a file, which I reckon I would if there was a conflict - unless itunes automagically handles this somehow when using this approach.

Thanks ~

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Yer_Man

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Oct 25, 2006 8:04 AM in response to sallantor

How much RAM do you have?

Regards

TD

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sallantor Author

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Oct 25, 2006 8:07 AM in response to Yer_Man

I have had this happen on various machines - iMac (PPC) with 1.5 gb, mbook with 2 gb, powerbook with 1gb..

Are people generally able to drag 500 songs from itunes to finder sucessfully?

sA

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macmenno

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Oct 25, 2006 8:26 AM in response to sallantor

Yes, I can drag about than 600 files (didn't try more) to a folder on the desktop and they all will copy successfully.
This only works if no duplicate filenames exist (at least that's how it works on my system).
I can repeat this task over and over.

M

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Oct 28, 2006 9:22 AM in response to sallantor

I'm having this problem too. Does anyone know of an easy work-around?

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