Hi, suzanne,
If you don't have iTunes organize your media for you, but rather just tell it to reference files, in other words, make a shortcut to them, you can hit enter on each of the filenames. ITunes will display a dialogue telling you that it couldn't find the file's location. You will see a button in this dialogue to locate the file again. Press this button, and a standard file dialogue thing will come up. Navigate to where the file resides on your drive, and press enter on it. It should start playing in iTunes. Another dialogue will come up asking you if you would like iTunes to try and find other missing files in your library based on the location you just told it about, i.e., the location of the ringtone you just told it about again. You can press either yes or no. I usually press yes. Sometimes it will actually find things. If it doesn't, repeat the process again until iTunes knows where all your missing files are once more. I do wish there was an easy way to have iTunes display all the files that it doesn't have links to in a single list. This would make my life so much easier, as I some sometimes have moved files around to better organize my library on my computer. Note: this missing links thing will also happen if you rename a file, as that is still changing the filepath. I hope that this makes sense. Thanks, Ari On Mar 18, 2013, at 6:41 PM, "Suzanne Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Allen. As it turns out, something similar happened to me. In my > case though, I discovered that although my ringtones were visible, they had > somehow been assigned an incorrect file path. Since all of them had been > free, I just deleted them and re-downloaded them from the site I use. > Definitely two hours of frustration though. > > Suzanne > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Alan Paganelli > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 12:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Syncing Ring Tones Help > > You may have to reset your phone. If you have regularly backed up your phone > it shouldn't be bad. Go to settings, general, reset. then reset all > settings. This will reset all the settings to their default values and will > delete all content. Then you can restore your phone from the latest backup. > I was having the same problem with ring tones. It was the only way to fix > the problem. Make sure you backup your phone before hand though. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Suzanne Wilson > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 4:19 PM > Subject: Syncing Ring Tones Help > > Hello, > > At one time not so long ago, I had about thirty ring tones on my phone that I > had downloaded and synced successfully. Unfortunately, when I went to add > some new ones, I lost everything that had already been on the phone. The > tones still show up in my list of available tones. I go into the device > list, select my iPhone, and then tab through until I get to tones, which I > check. Further tabbing takes me to a “sync tones” check box. If I check it, > iTunes says “Are you sure you do not want to sync tones? All existing tones > on the phone Suzanne’s iPhone will be removed.” I have the choice of either > a remove or a cancel button. Since I have nothing to lose at this point, I > have tried checking the remove button and syncing. Needless to say, nothing > happens, as everything is already wiped clean. After that, I repeat the same > procedure. This time, the phone lets me check the “sync tones” box and I > don’t get that message. I then keep tabbing to select all tones and make > sure that they are checked; then I press the sync button. In this case, > iTunes gets stuck on the first step of syncing and I get a message that the > sync has failed. > > A search of the list archives wasn’t terribly helpful. Is there any kind > soul who could help me figure this out? I would be eternally grateful. > > Suzanne > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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