![]() ![]() While iTunes said it couldn’t repair 45 missing files, there are zero exclamation marks in my library, so I’m not yet sure what’s happening with those 45 items. Here’s the result, in my case, which took about a second. It’s likely that most of the items that have become unlinked are on that same volume, not scattered over several volumes, so that’s a safe bet. If you say yes, iTunes 10 will use that location to look for and repair other broken links. You’re asked to navigate to the volume and directory where the item actually resides:Īfter that link is repaired, however, iTunes 10 takes some initiative and asks a question: ![]() ![]() If you find an item in your library with a broken link, designated with a leading !-mark, the dialog starts out the same. ITunes 10 eliminates that tedious process. Worse, repeating the repair hundreds of times, not an unheard of problem, would make one seriously question the iTunes Product Manager’s commitment to the customer. That’s not the user experience Apple is famous for.” When you double click a song that has a broken link, iTunes invites you to go look for it, manually, with a File dialog box. “Apple’s first line of defense against this is an almost DOS-like, pathetic avoiding of responsibility by iTunes engineers. On March 3, 2010, I wrote “ The iTunes Broken Promise: Broken Links.” In that analysis, I said, in part: Now, in iTunes 10, Apple has introduced a long-awaited auto-repair function. Links to items in the library could become broken, for no apparent reason, and it was a tedious process to manually repair those links. Back in March, I called Apple to task for overlooking a serious problem in iTunes. ![]()
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