What causes my songs not to be found in itunes (the ones with the ! next to them)? I would like to prevent it from happening in the future, its getting irritating as so many songs are showing up this way- at least half of my library. Thanks
have you moved the original songs to another folder, or deleted them from your computer ? then that is why the ! appears. or are your songs on an external HD and you don't have it turned on, then you get the ! itunes is only a link to your original songs in the folder you told itunes to find them. check that out, this is one thing i can actually help people with. i have 3 ipods and trial and error cost me alot of my time. mike.
To avoid it happening in the future, go Edit ==> Preferences ==> Advanced ==> General, then select 'Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to itunes library. That way, iTunes will create it's own music folder and you can delete the origionals '-)
