Automatically Add to iTunes

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Automatically Add to iTunes

I have some home videos I add to iTunes to watch on my Apple TV.

The home videos folder was getting rather large so I made a folder on my external hard drive to hold them.

I went into a shell and removed the Home Videos Folder From iTunes and then made a soft link to it.

So all that works well and my movies play.

However I used to be able to add movies to iTunes by dropping my movies into the Automatically Add to iTunes folder.

The movie would be copied to the Home Video folder and removed from the Automatically Add to iTunes folder and then it would show up in my list of home videos.

This almost works except that I think the mv command that iTunes was using to move the movie from the Automatically add to itunes folder will not move files across volumes and so it just stays in that folder.

Any suggestions?

OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Sep 5, 2015 1:50 PM

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Limnos

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Sep 5, 2015 1:56 PM in response to BrianJohnOBrien

Sometimes links do not work with iTunes and the Automatically Add To Folder is pretty special itself in how and where it works. Also note in general a "move" to another drive isn't a move as it is within a volume, it is a copy and then a delete the original.

iTunes 9: Understanding the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder. - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3832 - Files put into this folder are actually moved from this folder onto the correct location in the iTunes Media folder.

http://www.justanswer.com/mac-computers/4nnla-automatically-add-itunes-folder-ba ck-working.html

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