Most of mine appear to be in the Audiobooks folder inside of iTunes Media. -- Cheryl
"Move forward by looking back! "Above all, fear the Lord and worship Him faithfully with all your heart; consider the great things He has done for you." (1 Samuel 12:24 (HCSB) On Jan 29, 2015, at 12:03 AM, The Believer <[email protected]> wrote: Cheryl, Here is what I see. On Windows. the iTunes library in the user folder contains a Books subfolder. Once Tim gave me the correct steps to move my media to the Mac, all of it went where things should go except the books. After I managed to sync my iDevices to the Mac, I figured the books would be in the Books subfolder too on the Mac. But perhaps books are treated differently. I have not found any answers yet. I have only bought maybe 3, still prefer to do recreational reading in braille. If nothing else, I am becoming very proficient with my Mac. (grins) >From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? [email protected] On 1/28/2015 9:08 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > You can use cmd-v but cmd-o still works as far as I know in iTunes on the > Mac; then you navigate to what you want to add to your library. > >>> As for audiobooks, I am a little confused. Are these books on your iPhone >>> and iPad only or are they on your computer? The reason I ask is that you >>> mention "automatically add" which would make me think they are on your >>> computer but you also mention "transfer purchases" which I think means they >>> are on your iPad or iPhone. In most cases, you can add an audiobook with >>> cmd-o but then might have to go into options with the cmd-i (getinfo) >>> dialog and change it to audiobook. But I do remember there was a thread not >>> too long ago about some kind of problem with iTunes audiobooks but I don't >>> remember the substance since I rarely buy audiobooks from iTunes. > > You also mention going to the iTunes store but of course books there wouldn't > be ones you bought unless you are looking in purchases; this is probably what > you meant. You would probably have to choose the music radio button and also > the my music radio button in the next group of radio buttons or at least not > have the itunes store radio button selected. Then under "more" would be > audiobooks and then to the right of that the my audiobooks radio button. That > should bring up all your audiobooks. Maybe you already knew all this but I > thought because I had questions about what you wrote I would post this anyway. > -- > Cheryl > > "Move forward by looking back! > "Above all, fear the Lord > and worship Him faithfully with all your heart; > consider the great things He has done for you." > (1 Samuel 12:24 (HCSB) > > > > > > On Jan 28, 2015, at 9:31 PM, The Believer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I believe I just used command-v to paste both music and movies into the > automatically add folder and all that is fine in iTunes. It actually went > quite fast compared to my previous failed attmetps. > > But am unable to add a couple audio books I had bought and which are on > both iPhone and iPad. Automatically add does not do it and < does Transfer > Purchases. Went to the iTunes Store and found old books I do not want, but > the two do not show up. > > I got both devices synced to the Mac now (used Windows before) but its not > clear why the books are not in the iTunes library. If I can get this fixed I > can move to another project. > > From The Believer. . . > . . . what if it were true? > [email protected] > > On 1/28/2015 11:26 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: >> The important caveat is that when you put stuff into the Automatically Add >> to iTunes folder, you must do so atomically, i.e. move, not copy. You can >> do so using the Command-C to copy, then Command-Option-V to move strategy. >> I must admit that I find myself using Terminal more and more for simply >> moving items from Downloads into the auto-add folder, though if I thought >> about it, there'd be a way--if tedious--to do it exclusively using the >> Finder. >> >> It is OK to tell iTunes, using the Add to Library option, to add your >> existing Music folder in your Home folder; sometimes when the library gets >> corrupted you can do that to simply restore access to all your media. This >> is also a great way to reveal duplicates. iTunes never adds to its catalog >> any media file that it already knows about, so this operation is completely >> safe. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
