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Another option: Using a Symlink
Authored by: nickv2002 on Jun 16, '07 02:39:39PM

I had a similar experience where I told iTunes to move my library but it got interrupted halfway through. I attempted to use this hint to point iTunes to all the right files but it didn't work (they still had exclamation points indicating they were missing). What I ended up doing was replacing the 'wrong' folder with a symlink (Unix alias) pointing at the right location. Relaunching iTunes after doing that worked like a charm with no missing files.

Luckily though my music library is large (10000 songs or so) I keep it well organized so I could subsequently move the library location within iTunes and the consolidate it to keep it organized. Once those two things were done I deleted the symlink and everything still worked great.



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Another option: Using a Symlink
Authored by: nickv2002 on Jun 16, '07 02:42:07PM

I forgot to mention another perk of this method. Since the moving is done within iTunes, it preserves play-count/last played/etc values that the hint's method looses. Since I use many of these for smart playlist it was essential that I keep this info intact.



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