Re: Delete Bug or Feature?
Re: Delete Bug or Feature?
- Subject: Re: Delete Bug or Feature?
- From: Doug Adams <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:13:32 -0500
Doug Adams wrote: That's an OK workaround, and one that had
occurred to me, but rather cumbersome what with all the moving of
files. This is a bug with iTunes that should be fixed.
Skeeve wrote:
Either a bug now or it was a bug before ;-)
However: You could also rename, and not move the file before
deletion. So no need to move it around.
I doubt that delete has been buggy since iTunes v1.1 ;-)
Here's the thing: if this is a feature, then I guess I won't mind
having to re-write a bunch of scripts which offer the option to
preserve a file when deleting a track (as iTunes itself does).
However, it doesn't make sense that iTunes deletes a file when for
seven years it merely "removed" a track. While I think it is
incredibly convenient that delete *does* move the file to the Trash, I
would much prefer also being able to optionally preserve the file
without all the file manipulation. I shouldn't have to move a file to
a "hold" location or rename a file to keep it from being Trashed. And
it sure screws up a lot of scripts out there, like Make Bookmarkable
and Join Together.
As I have mentioned, perhaps a distinctive "remove" command should be
added (like that's gonna happen--although they did add "Mute" to the
Dock's iTunes contextual menu in 7.3 when I inquired) to remove a
track from a playlist, library, or source, whereas "delete" can
actually Trash its file. Dreamin' on.
Doug
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