Oh Crap...Me and my big ideas...

[Da Peach]

Alright, I know my brother has really been taxing on the generous energies of the tech forum, but now I have a problem.

I moved my "My Music" folder to my external hard drive to back it up. "Oops!" I figured, so I re-copied my "My Music" folder to my laptop. The icon from the start menu has disappeared and iTunes still won't work. When I try to start iTunes I get:

"The folder iTunes cannot be found or created, and is required. The default location for this folder is inside the "My Music" folder."

I've removed and re-installed iTunes, to no avail.

The iTunes folder IS inside the My Music folder. What more does this dastardly contraption want from me?

[goofy]

In Itunes click file then add folder then browse until you find the folder and click on it. Hope that helps

[DRB]

What more does this dastardly contraption want from me?

It wants you to beat your brother with a stick...

[Toshi]

I moved my "My Music" folder to my external hard drive to back it up. "Oops!" I figured, so I re-copied my "My Music" folder to my laptop. The icon from the start menu has disappeared and iTunes still won't work.

i think this is key. you need to tell windows that it is the "My Music" folder (as in a special "blessed" folder with the icon, in the menu, etc.), not just a folder with that name. how you actually do that, i have no idea. i'll let the windows nerds chime in with the solution :D

[binary visions]

Start/Run, type "regedit"

Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
Look for the My Music entry. If there isn't one, right click, highlight New, and add String Value. Name it "My Music". The contents should be the path to your My Music directory, e.g.
C:\Documents and Settings\Da Peach\My Documents\My Music
Reboot if it doesn't work immediately.

If that doesn't work (after a reboot), do the same thing at the following registry path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
Reboot if it doesn't work.

[Da Peach]

Thanks BV, I'll try it!

[johnbryanpeters]

Start/Run, type "regedit"

Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
Look for the My Music entry. If there isn't one, right click, highlight New, and add String Value. Name it "My Music". The contents should be the path to your My Music directory, e.g.
C:\Documents and Settings\Da Peach\My Documents\My Music
Reboot if it doesn't work immediately.

If that doesn't work (after a reboot), do the same thing at the following registry path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
Reboot if it doesn't work.

Walk into the nuclear reactor and start pressing buttons. :monkeydance:

[ALEXIS_DH]

Walk into the nuclear reactor and start pressing buttons. :monkeydance:

:clapping: :clapping: :clapping:

[binary visions]

I was gonna leave it at, "Go into regedit. Look for an appropriate setting and change it."

...figured that'd be mean, though :D

[Westy]

Walk into the nuclear reactor and start pressing buttons. :monkeydance:

Why would you put buttons inside a nukular reactor?

[Secret Squirrel]

I was gonna leave it at, "Go into regedit. Look for an appropriate setting and change it."

...figured that'd be mean, though :D

lol!!

The next post you'd see would be next year when he buys a new computer cause he got tired of looking at the blinking cursor.

[SkaredShtles]

Somebody should tell him how to backup his registry. :D

[MMike]

...now are you making fun of me or my brother....or both?

[Da Peach]

If I break my computer I expect a premium membership on the house...:)

[Da Peach]

Okay, I've tried it, but it seems the changes don't stick. When I re-open regedit after the reboot (cause it didn't work) I see that the changes haven't taken. i.e. the edited "Data" is blank next to "My Music".

If I get this right, I'm trying to get the "Data" to read "C:\Documents and Settings\Chris Petsche\My Documents\My Music"

I make this change, but it keeps going back to blank.

What gives?

My computer is still working though!

[Toshi]

uh, is there a "save changes" or similar in regedit? :D

[Da Peach]

Nope...give me a little credit here...

[binary visions]

Try going here and downloading TweakUI. It will allow you to change that (and a lot of other) settings:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

[DRB]

y'all rule... there is no doubt

[MMike]

I still can't get my grpahics card to work.....

[binary visions]

Nobody cares. Go away and bother someone else.

[Da Peach]

Try going here and downloading TweakUI. It will allow you to change that (and a lot of other) settings:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

So TweakUI is another tool to let me fiddle with my regedit?

I've tried all the regedit stuff, but as I mentioned, the changes don't stick. Reboots included. I've tried to uninstall and reinstall iTunes again with regedit open (wishful thinking) and still no dice...

[MMike]

Nobody cares. Go away and bother someone else.


Oh VERY nice...I see how it works...I'm yesterday's news... you have a new BETTER problem to sort out.... I thought we had something special

[DRB]

Hello is this thing on? <tap> <tap> Hello?.....

[Da Peach]

Tweak UI didn't really do anything. I click "repair My Music icon" and nothing happens.

Should My Music be read only? Should the iTunes folder within My Music be read only? Mine are..that seems wrong somehow...

[binary visions]

Tweak UI didn't really do anything. I click "repair My Music icon" and nothing happens.

Should My Music be read only? Should the iTunes folder within My Music be read only? Mine are..that seems wrong somehow...

That's probably why, neither should be read only. Right click on the My Music directory and uncheck the Read Only box. If it asks you if you want to apply it to all child directories, choose yes.

[Da Peach]

alright, let's see here...hmm... I proceed to uncheck read only, it goes through a quick process. Click apply and ok and all that stuff. I close it, and re-open, and it's Read only again...

My changes ain't stickin'!

[Westy]

alright, let's see here...hmm... I proceed to uncheck read only, it goes through a quick process. Click apply and ok and all that stuff. I close it, and re-open, and it's Read only again...

My changes ain't stickin'!

Do you have admin rights?

[binary visions]

It shouldn't even let him make the changes if he doesn't have admin rights... Sounds like some weird problem with the My Music directory.

Try shutting down all of your programs, move your music out of the my music directory, and delete the my music directory. Then use the rebuild function on Tweak UI.

[Da Peach]

I have version 2.10 of tweakUI and I can't find a "rebuild" function, just repair...which doesn't do anything...

But I'll try and delete the music folder and use the repair...

[binary visions]

That's what I meant. Repair.

[MMike]

So who's the dumber brother now eh???? EHHH????

[binary visions]

So who's the dumber brother now eh???? EHHH????

His computer is fully functioning and hasn't cost him $100+ only to have it still be non-functioning.

You do the math.

[Da Peach]

The repair button still does nothing

and my changes is regedit still aren't working...

As for MMike...Buying that computer out of the back of a van wasn't such a good idea now...was it?

[MMike]

The repair button still does nothing

and my changes is regedit still aren't working...

As for MMike...Buying that computer out of the back of a van wasn't such a good idea now...was it?

It was free. So the whole machine has cost me $100....and provided two years of flawless performance.

YOU do the math....

[Da Peach]

It was free. So the whole machine has cost me $100....and provided two years of flawless performance.

YOU do the math....

Be nice...my computer is still falked...

[Da Peach]

Ah, my in-house computer geek at work fixed it.

Although he refuses to tell me how, but it's fixed.

The important thing is...I learned something (?)

[binary visions]

:rofl:

I'm going to let you in on a huge secret.

There are two reasons that tech guys don't tell the user how they fixed the problem:

A) the user is an idiot and missed something so mind-numbingly simple (usually something we've specifically told them to do) that we can't tell you without offending you, or

B) we have no idea how we fixed it. A few clicks of the mouse and all of a sudden everything is back to normal. Don't know how, don't know why, but don't look a gift horse...

[splat]

:rofl:

I'm going to let you in on a huge secret.

There are two reasons that tech guys don't tell the user how they fixed the problem:

A) the user is an idiot and missed something so mind-numbingly simple (usually something we've specifically told them to do) that we can't tell you without offending you, or

B) we have no idea how we fixed it. A few clicks of the mouse and all of a sudden everything is back to normal. Don't know how, don't know why, but don't look a gift horse...


3 thing BV

1) Your not suppose to tell them that

2) In this case I'm betting A

3) I think the better solution would have been format c: /q /y

[Da Peach]

alright alright...back to the nerd cave with you.

It still took him over an hour... I think he just created a new user account in widows. Smarty pantses.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UhNIUOkWAmo

[DRB]

Well one of the brothers dumb has a functioning computer.

[Toshi]

i believe that the moral of this thread is that windows is awful

[Westy]

I thought the moral was that MMike and family are a bit on the slow side.

[valve bouncer]

If you put both of your computers in the microwave on high for 5 minutes all your problems will be solved. If you put both of you in the microwave for 5 minutes all our problems will be solved.

[MMike]

You guys are mean and helpful both at the same time....