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If I import something in iTunes 12.3 from an external HARD drive, as soon as I turn off the computer, or remove the external hard drive, he'll never find the files again, even if the drive designation is the same. Why? How can I prevent this?

Whenever I then tr to import something on my iPod, the program does not give me a warning that the files not found, instead, I drag-and - drop folders on the iPod, and the interrupted icon flashes 3 times, as it does when the transfer normally woks. If I look carefully on the row of the SECOND high, and no level of "work in progress" does not appear behind the file in the background, indicating that a transfer is in progress, then nothing happens, and no files are transferred. Then I noticed once I walk around with the camera. Given that I don't want to wait half a day for my library do a new import every time I turn on the new PC, I just use the old memory of the files, select what I want, then re - import only this folder on top the already existing folder. If I do that several times, I can finish with several times the files in the folder, all but the last loaded then have the exclamation make indicating that the file has been lost. This can last indefinitely (e.g. 20 identical files with the explanation marks and the other without if I imported the record 21 times). Of course, only the last import is transferred to the device.

THX.

Marmoset500 wrote:

If I import something in iTunes 12.3 from an external HARD drive, as soon as I turn off the computer, or remove the external hard drive, he'll never find the files again, even if the drive designation is the same. Why? How can I prevent this?

It's not quite like that. If iTunes starts up and has reason to notice that a drive where other titles are supposed to be stored is offline, then it flags those followed with the exclamation point. If subsequently put you at the disposal of the player and import the same tracks it will make fresh entries in the library for them. If you close iTunes and then reopen it, you should find that the two entries of work. The perfect way to work with iTunes is for her to have a content library internal computer discs auto if there is room, or on an external drive connected normally. and in both cases keep a backup on a separate disk. See make a split cell library for more details

Whenever I then tr to import something on my iPod, the program does not give me a warning that the files not found, instead, I drag-and - drop folders on the iPod, and the interrupted icon flashes 3 times, as it does when the transfer normally woks. If I look carefully on the row of the SECOND high, and no level of "work in progress" does not appear behind the file in the background, indicating that a transfer is in progress, then nothing happens, and no files are transferred. Then I noticed once I walk around with the camera.

As stated in your feed to repress 'fake' lost files transfer when iTunes is unable to do what he is asked he often fails silently. The answer is to keep your library organized correctly there is no broken links and not duplicates.

Given that I don't want to wait half a day for my library do a new import every time I turn on the new PC, I just use the old memory of the files, select what I want, then re - import only this folder on top the already existing folder. If I do that several times, I can finish with several times the files in the folder, all but the last loaded then have the exclamation make indicating that the file has been lost. This can last indefinitely (e.g. 20 identical files with the explanation marks and the other without if I imported the record 21 times). Of course, only the last import is transferred to the device.

When iTunes has multiple entries for the same file there is only one of them on the device. Broken entries are not copied over. It seems that you manually manage the device that takes the most effort than syncing playlists selected from a well-trained library.

Duplicates in iTunes are usually the result of re-import content located outside the media folder where your settings allow for the songs imported to copy in the media folder. iTunes is not keep a record of the external paths, so if you add the same record twice, you get two copies. If you start iTunes with the media on an external drive disconnected, then plug in the hard drive and then add files to iTunes iTunes can contain multiple references to the same files. If the reader has several times different drive letters, or you manually move media autour, then this can lead to broken links.

Official notice of Apple on the duplicates is here: find and remove duplicates in your iTunes library. This is a manual process and article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as the lost coast and membership of playlist, or sometimes the same file can be represented by multiple entries in the library as well as a removal and recycling the file will break all the others.

Use MAJ > view > show items to reproduce exactly to display the duplicates because it is normally a selection more useful. You must manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sort the list by Date added can make easier select appropriate tracks, but it works better when executed immediately after the dupes were created. If you have several entries in iTunes connected to a same file on the disk hard then don't not send to trash.

Use my DeDuper script (Windows only) If you are not sure, do not want to do it by hand, or want to maintain ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this background thread , this post for detailed instructions and Please take note of the warning to back up your library before deduping.

(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to temporarily view or CTRL + B to keep displayed.)

The latest version of the script can put away the dead links as long as there is at least a double live to merge his stats and membership of the playlist and must deal wisely when the same file has been added through multiple paths.

You can also take a look at my comments in this thread Re: why iTunes double, triple or even quadruple songs I import there? and hhgttg27 for some more information on the Organization of the library and the effects of the different options in iTunes.

TT2

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