iPod query
Hi everyone Since my wife synced her iPod (touch) to her iMac, a lot of the songs come up with the following message. The song “Whatever it is” could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it? This only developed since syncing and all songs are OK on the iPod, and were OK on the iMac before syncing. Any suggestions? She had been adding songs to iTunes prior to syncing. Peter OSX 10.9.3 iPod up to date iTunes 11.2.2.(3) 64 bit -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPod query
Hi Peter The Normal cause for this is a setting in iTunes being on (generally). The setting in question is in iTunes menu - Preferences. Under Advanced. There is a setting that reads Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library. If this isn't ticked, then when the files are added into iTunes for a different source (e.g. from CD or an external drive) then it doesn't copy the files to the iMac drive itself, it creates a sort remember where it is kind of link. So then if the source of the files disappears (e.g. an external drive or Thumb Drive or even CD) where the original file is expected to be at, it's no longer there. So it then gives the error you have mentioned. (Check to ensure it does have a tick beside it). This can also occur if the original iTunes Media folder gets moved/deleted/renamed etc as well. Basically it just means having to locate the files and make sure that iTunes points to it in the correct location. These links should help as well - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408 http://ipod.about.com/od/itunesproblems/qt/Fixing-The-Itunes-Exclamation-Point.htm Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 12/06/2014, at 9:09 PM, Peter Curtis pe...@augold.com.au wrote: Hi everyone Since my wife synced her iPod (touch) to her iMac, a lot of the songs come up with the following message. The song “Whatever it is” could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it? This only developed since syncing and all songs are OK on the iPod, and were OK on the iMac before syncing. Any suggestions? She had been adding songs to iTunes prior to syncing. Peter OSX 10.9.3 iPod up to date iTunes 11.2.2.(3) 64 bit -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: email
I've tried ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads in Go to Folder but it results in the message Folder cannot be found Could this be because I'm using OS 10.7.5? Regards, Michael Hawkins - Original Message - From: wamug@wamug.org.au To:WAMUG wamug@wamug.org.au Cc: Sent:Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:31:15 +0800 Subject:Re: email On 4 Jun 2014, at 9:59 am, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi folks, With 10.9.3, where do mail downloads go?Looked in the Mail Downloads folder and only last year stuff there. Hi Bill, Mail Downloads folder. The folder’s name is the only thing that’s obvious about it: it’s deeply buried in a series of folders, one of which is invisible. To view its contents, choose Go Go to Folder in the Finder, type (or copy and paste from here) ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads, and click Go. You should visit this folder sometime if only because it probably has at least a gigabyte of detritus, much of which you could probably trash. You’ll likely find hundreds of folders with alphanumeric names, each holding a downloaded attachment. That seemingly inefficient setup is necessary in order to avoid having identically named attachments saved to the same folder. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) Bill Dr Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au 0403 583 676 Batteries are included free of charge -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: email
Hi Michael, On 13 Jun 2014, at 7:33 am, michael.hawkins michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au wrote: I've tried ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads in Go to Folder but it results in the message Folder cannot be found Could this be because I'm using OS 10.7.5? Attachments in Lion were saved to: ~/Library/Mail Downloads. Under Mountain Lion Mavericks, Mail is now sandboxed, and the new path is: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) Regards, Michael Hawkins - Original Message - From: wamug@wamug.org.au To:WAMUG wamug@wamug.org.au Cc: Sent:Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:31:15 +0800 Subject:Re: email On 4 Jun 2014, at 9:59 am, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi folks, With 10.9.3, where do mail downloads go?Looked in the Mail Downloads folder and only last year stuff there. Hi Bill, Mail Downloads folder. The folder’s name is the only thing that’s obvious about it: it’s deeply buried in a series of folders, one of which is invisible. To view its contents, choose Go Go to Folder in the Finder, type (or copy and paste from here) ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads, and click Go. You should visit this folder sometime if only because it probably has at least a gigabyte of detritus, much of which you could probably trash. You’ll likely find hundreds of folders with alphanumeric names, each holding a downloaded attachment. That seemingly inefficient setup is necessary in order to avoid having identically named attachments saved to the same folder. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) Bill Dr Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au 0403 583 676 Batteries are included free of charge -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: email
Michael On 13/06/2014, at 7:33 AM, michael.hawkins wrote: I've tried ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads in Go to Folder but it results in the message Folder cannot be found Could this be because I'm using OS 10.7.5? I am running 10.6.8. I put Mail Downloads in a finder window search box (top right) and set it to look at file name and it told me that it was at users/[username]/Library/Mail Downloads. I assume that this approach should work for any version of the operation system. Geoff --- Kaye and Geoff k...@kgweb.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
WD Portable hard rive for sale
Hi folks, I have a WD Portable HD available. It is 500GB USB 2.0 Will sell for $40 to anyone interested. Regards, Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
