I have a meticulously organised media library that for years has lived on a disk called "Media" or a folder called "Media" with iTunes simply pointing to it as "/Media" without issue. "Media" also contains my iPhoto library and my Dropbox folder.
It follows iTunes' standard folder names because it actually created some of them in the first place, Podcasts in the Podcasts folder, Music in the Music folder etc...
After an update earlier in the year and without me even knowing it was a new "feature", after adding some new DJ sets I'd downloaded from a few places, I simply dragged the "music" folder over iTunes so it could put them in the Artists' folders for me and update the library.
After an age. It moved all the folders from the "music" folder, to loose inside "Media" for no reason other than some bonehead developer at Apple suddenly decided that might be a good place to store everything regardless of file type. As this was the method I'd used in the past numerous times without this issue, I know it's because of a change to the way iTunes stores files, not something I'd done differently.
After a recent update to iTunes, I now find it's decided to keep all my recently updated Mobile Applications in users/[me]/iTunes/Mobile Applications for no intellgent reason too. Despite the fact every other iTunes related file is still in "Media" including the "Mobile Applications" folder it used to use in previous versions.
It's driving me nuts!
Why can't it just "Keep iTunes Media folder organised" and "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" as it always used to?
There's no need for Apple to suddenly decide to relocate folders from one drive to another and I can't see any way of sorting it out other than simply copying everything into the "Media" folder and letting it rebuild the entire library hoping iTunes doesn't decide in it's idiocy to move 100s of GB/s of files into users/[me]/iTunes/ even though "Media" is still, as it always has been, the selected folder in the iTunes preferences for where the library is stored.
On top of that is the neverending persistence of forcing Album view all the time instead of the previous, much more intuitive, columns view which they've also decided to remove from devices all together so I have to view my whole iPhone as 1 big playlist.
It follows iTunes' standard folder names because it actually created some of them in the first place, Podcasts in the Podcasts folder, Music in the Music folder etc...
After an update earlier in the year and without me even knowing it was a new "feature", after adding some new DJ sets I'd downloaded from a few places, I simply dragged the "music" folder over iTunes so it could put them in the Artists' folders for me and update the library.
After an age. It moved all the folders from the "music" folder, to loose inside "Media" for no reason other than some bonehead developer at Apple suddenly decided that might be a good place to store everything regardless of file type. As this was the method I'd used in the past numerous times without this issue, I know it's because of a change to the way iTunes stores files, not something I'd done differently.
After a recent update to iTunes, I now find it's decided to keep all my recently updated Mobile Applications in users/[me]/iTunes/Mobile Applications for no intellgent reason too. Despite the fact every other iTunes related file is still in "Media" including the "Mobile Applications" folder it used to use in previous versions.
It's driving me nuts!
Why can't it just "Keep iTunes Media folder organised" and "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" as it always used to?
There's no need for Apple to suddenly decide to relocate folders from one drive to another and I can't see any way of sorting it out other than simply copying everything into the "Media" folder and letting it rebuild the entire library hoping iTunes doesn't decide in it's idiocy to move 100s of GB/s of files into users/[me]/iTunes/ even though "Media" is still, as it always has been, the selected folder in the iTunes preferences for where the library is stored.
On top of that is the neverending persistence of forcing Album view all the time instead of the previous, much more intuitive, columns view which they've also decided to remove from devices all together so I have to view my whole iPhone as 1 big playlist.
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