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)
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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.
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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 <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> 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.
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ancient.ali...@icloud.com
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.
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