fucking itunes blew away all my music

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by TheBang

Yeah, Mac. Just tested on the PC version, and it works there too.

Not multi-select. Recursively down the directory tree. Put them all in one big enclosing folder and select that.

I did. . . selected the IPodControl\Music folder and no love

[edit] crap. . . removed the readonly attribute and it work....

but have to move them to my c: drive as the 1/2 tb western digital caviar went tits up in all this...

btw. . . the 1/2 tb western digital caviars are crap drives.... this is the third one that hasnt lasted more than three years. didnt know they sucked at the time. bought four of them two years ago as I set up vm host.

they all were swapped out for hitachi 1tb after I lost the second one.

so I guess I cant place all the blame on crapple. but why is it, everytime i run itunes, my machine fucks up

[TheBang]

Originally Posted by bas_I_am

so I guess I cant place all the blame on crapple. but why is it, everytime i run itunes, my machine fucks up

Because it knows how you feel about it.

Shame about the hard drive. I've had good experiences with 1 and 2 TB Green and Black drives. I've had bad luck historically with Seagate drives. Nothing recently though, but I've still been steering clear of them since the firmware debacle last year.

[froopy seal]

Originally Posted by TheBang

Shame about the hard drive. I've had good experiences with 1 and 2 TB Green and Black drives.

Me too. Except for that stupid Load Cycle Count problem (mostly on Unix machines), I've never been let down by a WD. Almost completely switched to those.

Only had HDD crashes with Quantum/Maxtor, so I've been staying clear of them ever since (do they still exist?).

[BrotherLovesDub]

i recently consolidated 800+gb of music from 2 drives onto a new 2TB drive using iTunes menus for consolidating library. It took about 7hrs or so but it worked flawlessly. This is a case of the user thinking he's smarter than he is and not using the recommended process then misplacing blame.

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[TheBang]

Originally Posted by froopy seal

Me too. Except for that stupid Load Cycle Count problem (mostly on Unix machines), I've never been let down by a WD. Almost completely switched to those.

Oh yeah, I did WDIDLE3 on all of them, especially as most of them are being used in a Drobo for RAID(-ish).

[Drix]

Still.. iTunes with that big music collection is slooow and unresponsive on a PC.
iTunes shouldn't be used on a PC at all imo. There are so many better alternatives.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Drix

Still.. iTunes with that big music collection is slooow and unresponsive on a PC.
iTunes shouldn't be used on a PC at all imo. There are so many better alternatives.

Not if you also want to manage your ipod and iphone library (without hacking shit).

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

USER ERROR. USER ERROR.

no not user error. . . I used one of the recommended processes:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3832

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by Drix

Still.. iTunes with that big music collection is slooow and unresponsive on a PC.
iTunes shouldn't be used on a PC at all imo. There are so many better alternatives.

For the most part I agree with you. . . except when it comes to organizing media on the drive.

Trust me. . their shit is off my machine now.

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

This is a case of the user thinking he's smarter than he is and not using the recommended process then misplacing blame.

BTW. . .

"Consolidate" and "import folder" leave copies in the original place.
the point of the "Automatically Add" is that it doesn't.

The fact remains. crApple shItunes deleted my music


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