Re: [OT]OS X Anybody got a clue how to tell iTunes to use my existing music folder?
Re: [OT]OS X Anybody got a clue how to tell iTunes to use my existing music folder?
- Subject: Re: [OT]OS X Anybody got a clue how to tell iTunes to use my existing music folder?
- From: Bryan Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:49:55 -0600
>
Just downloaded iTunes for OS-X. Loads fine. I am trying to tell it to use
>
my OS9 music folder (which is a liased to my OS 9 documents folder, which is
>
a liased from my boot partition (the former because I have not enough gigs
>
on docs partition for my CDs, the latter because it allows me to separate OS
>
from data).
Right. Check the readme, it describes how to do it. (I think it says to
put an alias of your OS 9 iTunes Music folder right into your Documents
folder under your "Home").
Works great..
>
I am beginning to think the "X" in OS X stands for "guess the convoluted way
>
we have hidden this function from you". This is also the first time IN MY
>
LIFE I have ever spent more than 1 minute futzing with the finder. This
>
feels like windoze to me ... I hope I am wrong.
Won't disagree with you there.
Its centered on giving the user options instead of getting the task done.
Not an easy concept to explain to a recent CS grad who's proud of himself
for building such a "flexible" system.
- B