Hi there,
I'm a Windows 7 user and the hard drive that I used to have my iTunes library on unfortunately died a couple of weeks ago and although I had got round to backing my music up onto my network drive (aside from a few recent purchases), I hadn't yet got round to setting iTunes up to use the network location instead of the local drive. I decided to get a solid state drive as a replacement and use the opportunity to set iTunes up properly with the network location for its library, though I've been having a few issues.
I have managed to import the network drive folder into iTunes on my new hard drive OK and I set up the default location to be M:\music (my network drive's mapping), so all I thought I needed to do was transfer a few outstanding iTunes purchases from my iPad and iPhone into iTunes and then sync them up with the new iTunes library.
The first issue I had was that the first time I tried to transfer purchases from my iPad to the library, iTunes decided to put all the transferred purchases on the computer's C:\ drive instead of the network drive. I'm not entirely sure why, but it seems that iTunes had for some reason reset the library location to C:\. I fixed that by setting it back to M:\music and trying the transfer again and that seemed to work fine.
Now today I've tried to do the same thing with my iPhone and while there was no music to transfer, there were a few apps and again iTunes decided to copy them to my C:\ drive instead of the network location (and yes the network is working fine as I can browse the rest of the library that iTunes knows is there). Looking at preferences in iTunes I can't work out why iTunes is doing this though as it still has the default location set to my network drive - anyone have any ideas? I've tried copying the rogue .ipa files from my C:\ drive to the network drive and have iTunes re-import them but that seems to have confused iTunes even more and now it seems to have forgotten the location of all the other apps that it was previously fine with (thankfully it still seems to be ok with the fact the music is on the network drive) and it now just copies whichever app I try to import into the library *from* the network drive *to* my local drive?!
Does anyone know why iTunes is trying to make my life a living hell by refusing to just keep my iOS apps in the same location as my music? Thanks for any assistance anyone can offer.
I'm a Windows 7 user and the hard drive that I used to have my iTunes library on unfortunately died a couple of weeks ago and although I had got round to backing my music up onto my network drive (aside from a few recent purchases), I hadn't yet got round to setting iTunes up to use the network location instead of the local drive. I decided to get a solid state drive as a replacement and use the opportunity to set iTunes up properly with the network location for its library, though I've been having a few issues.
I have managed to import the network drive folder into iTunes on my new hard drive OK and I set up the default location to be M:\music (my network drive's mapping), so all I thought I needed to do was transfer a few outstanding iTunes purchases from my iPad and iPhone into iTunes and then sync them up with the new iTunes library.
The first issue I had was that the first time I tried to transfer purchases from my iPad to the library, iTunes decided to put all the transferred purchases on the computer's C:\ drive instead of the network drive. I'm not entirely sure why, but it seems that iTunes had for some reason reset the library location to C:\. I fixed that by setting it back to M:\music and trying the transfer again and that seemed to work fine.
Now today I've tried to do the same thing with my iPhone and while there was no music to transfer, there were a few apps and again iTunes decided to copy them to my C:\ drive instead of the network location (and yes the network is working fine as I can browse the rest of the library that iTunes knows is there). Looking at preferences in iTunes I can't work out why iTunes is doing this though as it still has the default location set to my network drive - anyone have any ideas? I've tried copying the rogue .ipa files from my C:\ drive to the network drive and have iTunes re-import them but that seems to have confused iTunes even more and now it seems to have forgotten the location of all the other apps that it was previously fine with (thankfully it still seems to be ok with the fact the music is on the network drive) and it now just copies whichever app I try to import into the library *from* the network drive *to* my local drive?!
Does anyone know why iTunes is trying to make my life a living hell by refusing to just keep my iOS apps in the same location as my music? Thanks for any assistance anyone can offer.