iTunes Officially Sucketh

[inkscribe]

I need to rant. I really do.

So yeah, I use my iPod for audiobooks, most particularly SGA audiobooks.

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[inkscribe]

You know those $##@# pre-set folders they've got on OSX, the ones you can't rename/delete? (Sorry ... again, as a long-time Mac user it's one aspect of Mac that just screams "Windoz" at me ... if I wanted a default-save folder called "Documents" I damn well would have made one.)*

Anyhow ... there's that tree of folders along the left-side of any folder-window, and it probably looks like this:
-Desktop
-Home folder (in your username)
-Applications
-Documents
-Movies
-Music
-Pictures

Inside 'Music' you'll find a folder for iTunes. (This is not the iTunes application folder (it will be in 'Applications'.)

Look for: Music -->iTunes-->iTunes Music

Inside the iTunes Music folder is where you will find copies of probably anything you've ever opened inside iTunes, whether you wanted to or not.

I removed nearly 2GB of crap out of there last night -- all stuff that I already have organised and labelled as I want it elsewhere, not to mention backed up. There might be other places it's stashed stuff ... I haven't had time to hunt down other areas of my drive.

I hope that helps!

*Mini-rant #2 -- Seriously ... I know how to do filing, thank you very much! When I first moved over to OSX, I kept 'losing' documents -- where the hell were things going? Then I realised this stupid default-labelled 'Documents' folder is where all storts of stuff goes, again, by default. Some apps are easy to change the save-to location and keepit changed; others, notso much.

I mostly love OSX -- the easy availability of Mac Open Source software absolutely amazes me and I'm thrilled at the quality, variety, and stability of offerings created through that movement.

Name-brand applications are still going strong as well, though MS products are still flakey as all get out. (But then, IMNSHO, they haven't had a stable Mac release since Office 5.1. I can get my copy to crash consistently within three minutes by using the same 'standard word processing features' I can use on other iterations of Word on other platforms (which have their own unique set of buggy problems). I'm digressing. Bottom line: Open Source is application love!

[wolfshark]

Thank you so much! *kills those files on her work machine and notes to do on home machine*

[inkscribe]

You're welcome. :-)

And I presume it's obvious that if it's something you want and you don't have backed up elsewhere, you'll do so before you purge, right? (I just realised I didn't mention that in my ranty directions above -- sorry!)

[wolfshark]

Yeah, that much i figured out :D

[inkscribe]

:-)