*sigh* so much for THAT work...
Nov. 17th, 2008 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearso I turned off my external hard drives at the office 'cause the power was taken down over the weekend.
i come back.
i turn on machine.
i bring up itunes.
i decided i'm in celtic mood so i switch my party shuffle to celt
thing tells me there's no music there.
oh yeah.
i turn on hard drive.
now itunes refuses to refresh to actually notice that all the files are there now. it has still tagged 2/3rds of my celtic collection (the ones on the main playlist) as missing. it'll only refresh a file as being there if i double-click it to play it, but i'm not doing that to 2,000 tracks one by one.
so i try to bring up a library manager to refresh it. instead, it looks at the ones marked missing by itunes and starts deleting them all.
SO, all the work i'd done so far on cleaning up the celtic collection is entirely shot to hell. any file removed has lots its ratings setting. all the rest are now forced duplicates. the whole thing is just one giant mess that has to be totally redone.
SOOOOO NOT in the mood anymore.
[note - physical files are not deleted - just their itunes references (which takes out all the rating work i've done, though the genres are preserved since that's stored in the ID3 tag.]
i come back.
i turn on machine.
i bring up itunes.
i decided i'm in celtic mood so i switch my party shuffle to celt
thing tells me there's no music there.
oh yeah.
i turn on hard drive.
now itunes refuses to refresh to actually notice that all the files are there now. it has still tagged 2/3rds of my celtic collection (the ones on the main playlist) as missing. it'll only refresh a file as being there if i double-click it to play it, but i'm not doing that to 2,000 tracks one by one.
so i try to bring up a library manager to refresh it. instead, it looks at the ones marked missing by itunes and starts deleting them all.
SO, all the work i'd done so far on cleaning up the celtic collection is entirely shot to hell. any file removed has lots its ratings setting. all the rest are now forced duplicates. the whole thing is just one giant mess that has to be totally redone.
SOOOOO NOT in the mood anymore.
[note - physical files are not deleted - just their itunes references (which takes out all the rating work i've done, though the genres are preserved since that's stored in the ID3 tag.]
