Yep, success now! I'm tickled. I think I need more Finder practice. I haven't mastered finder or spotlight.
Thanks for all the guidance guys. :) Traci Sent by Macbook Air Mail On Dec 30, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > That's what I did too: storing christmas music in the christmas library. I > love finder for this task. I didn't use the mouse > at all; can't seem to get the hang of it, but over all, I think I > accomplished my task, and the mistakes were fairly minimal. > Now I know that once I've moved files where I want them, I should still tell > it to keep files that appear to be duplicates > because they probably aren't, and I can always check manually in finder to > make absolutely sure. Anyway, I'm very happy that > I was able to accomplish this task. I know playlists could have done the job, > but for me, dual libraries were a much better > solution. I'm glad you've almost got yours sorted as well. I'm sure I'll spot > some errors from time to time; each of my > libraries has over 500 songs, but now it's just a matter of occasional > maintenance. > Missy > > > _____ > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Traci > Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 3:14 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: So close, 2 libraries > > > Thank you guys, > > Lol, what I have learned with this experiment is, remember the mouse! I need > to keep in mind how much Mac lets us use the > mouse. > > What I ended up doing was highlighting the songs in my first library, then > doing mouse down on them all, then mouse up inside > the automatically add to iTunes folder under my Christmas library. So far, > this has worked like a charm. > > I'm choosing to delete all the holiday music in my first library and actually > store them inside the Christmas library. > > Wooh-Hooh, success! Now, I need to tidy up the Christmas library, because > I'm certain I have duplicates. Lol! > > Traci > > Sent by Macbook Air Mail > > On Dec 30, 2011, at 5:22 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > > > That was the challenge I kept running into: weeding out duplicates. I > eventually learned, though, that even if I thought > there was a duplicate, it wasn't always true, so if I deleted a song from 1 > library, I told it to keep the files. It took > some work, but I eventually got the hang of it. That's a very good idea, > though. If I haven't done so already, I will make > sure that checkbox is unchecked for both of my libraries. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker > Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 8:17 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: So close, 2 libraries > > Hi, > > you need to actually add the songs from the file browser by pressing command > O. I would first go to iTunes prefs/advanced > and make sure make a copy to your iTunes media folder is unchecked. No point > in having duplicates on your machine. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Dec 29, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Traci wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Ok, I'm so close in succeeding with 2 libraries and organizing Holiday music. > > > > It worked great to export all my holiday playlists, import them into the new > library, then delete all those songs from my > > > regular iTunes. > > > > Where I'm stuck now, is moving the rest of the Holiday music over to the new > library. It doesn't seem like I can highlight > > > and copy the tracks via iTunes. > > > > Any advance suggestions? I wondered about highlighting the tracks with the > mouse, but I wasn't sure where to go from > > > there. > > > > Lastly, my tones. I have nearly 30 Christmas tones, I've separated them via > a grouping word, but again, I don't know how > > > to move them. > > > > Thank you so much, > > > Traci > > > Sent by Macbook Air Mail > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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