iTunes9 doesn't use "TV Shows" folder

[Devi1c0w]

Hey there.

I just "upgraded" my iTunes to the new organization method that came with iTunes9 and now have several folders like Audiobooks, Podcasts, etc. and TV Shows.

If I download TV Shows through iTunes, iTunes places them there. If I add TV Shows manually (say, all the Simpsons episodes I ripped off of my DVDs), they are added to the Movies folder. Probably because it doesn't know that the movies I added belong to a TV Show.
However, when I change the media type of the added episodes from "Movie" to "TV Show", the files are not being moved to the "TV Shows" folder. Why is that? What can I do to correct this?

Well, you could say, that there's no reason to bother. However, I need to split my iTunes library since I'm running out of space. Therefor I created a folder "TV Shows" on an external drive and linked it to my iTunes folder via a folder alias. But this "trick" only works and only is of reason, if iTunes uses this folder for ALL files of the type "TV Show"...

 

[meglet]

Did you check the TV Shows folder? I had a similar issue on my netbook, and it turned out that iTunes was copying the files to the TV Show folder, instead of moving them. I double-checked the file location on the episodes in iTunes, and they all were located in Music\iTunes\TV Shows, so I just deleted the files from the movies folder.

 

[Devi1c0w]

Yeah, I did check that folder. It is completely empty.

 

[northy124]

Have you tagged your episode as a TV Programme? as standard all videos go into Movies unless tagged otherwise.

 

[Devi1c0w]

Yep. That's what I meant by the term "changing the media type".

 

[GoCubsGo]

^ this has always been the case. They come in as a movie and you have to change them.

 

[Devi1c0w]

I know that. But I would expect iTunes to move the files from the Movies folder to the TV Shows folder after changing the media type in iTunes.

 

[devburke]

Did you check the TV Shows folder? I had a similar issue on my netbook, and it turned out that iTunes was copying the files to the TV Show folder, instead of moving them. I double-checked the file location on the episodes in iTunes, and they all were located in Music\iTunes\TV Shows, so I just deleted the files from the movies folder.

That’s annoying