I recently did a little reorganization on a friend's computer who had music files all over the damn place on her hard drive. She just got an external drive for her laptop, so I just took every music file I could find and threw them into a single folder on the external drive. Now I want to move them all back and import them into iTunes in a somewhat organized fashion.

The problem I'm having is that when I moved all the folders to her external drive, I deleted them off the internal drive, and this means I deleted the default "My Music" folder. Now when I try to open iTunes, I get a lovely error message along the lines of "iTunes requires the 'iTunes' folder inside the 'My Music' folder, which cannot be found."

I've tried creating a folder titled "My Music," moving the "iTunes" folder back inside of that, but no dice. Even going in the Music->iTunes folder and trying to open the iTunes Library xml file gives me the same error. (And I've updated iTunes but it didn't re-create any folders like I hoped it would.)

So is there any sort of smart way to get Windows to re-create an official My Music folder?

7/19/2007 3:55:25 PM

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

[Edited on July 19, 2007 at 4:00 PM. Reason : thats how i had to link them in the registry]

7/19/2007 3:59:44 PM

try the TweakUI PowerToy to re-define a My Music folder. You should be able to create a new "My Music" folder wherever you want, then use TweakUI to tell Windows that that is the "official" My Music. (and you can rename it to just "Music", along with all the other stupid "My ...." folders)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

[Edited on July 19, 2007 at 4:08 PM. Reason : .]

7/19/2007 4:07:21 PM

powertools/toys uses the same regedit backend i i think, but its probably better (and less likely to get fucked up)

especially if you dont know what %blahroot% stuff is set...

and that reminds me, i listed the registry info for vista. but its likely the same for that shit.

7/19/2007 4:26:11 PM

hmmm, i seem to have run into difficulty finding the proper option within TweakUI...

7/23/2007 4:51:08 PM

It's under My Computer > Special Folders or something like that. just click around in the nav tree, there's not that much to find

7/23/2007 4:55:24 PM