Using iTunes 12.1 / Any way to select videos just from certain folders instead of globally? If not,

snazz123snazz123
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in Genius Bar edited February 2015

Hello all. This frustrates me. iTunes seems to only allow for globally selecting to include videos when syncing photos to iOS devices. With my folders containing hundreds of videos that scenario would overload my 128GB iPhone and my 128GB iPad Air 2 immediately. 

 

Does anyone know if there is a workaround whereby I can select just certain folders with videos to sync and ignore other folders with videos I do not wish to sync but whose folders I may want to sync just photos from?

 

?I can't believe Apple wouldn't allow a custom selection of videos from only desired folders!

 

Thanks!

 

SNazz123

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    john.bjohn.b Posts: 2,742member
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    Originally Posted by snazz123 View Post

     

    Does anyone know if there is a workaround whereby I can select just certain folders with videos to sync and ignore other folders with videos I do not wish to sync but whose folders I may want to sync just photos from?

     

    ?I can't believe Apple wouldn't allow a custom selection of videos from only desired folders!


     

    iTunes is really metadata-driven, not folder/location-driven.

  • Reply 2 of 2
    snazz123snazz123 Posts: 21member



    Thank you John B. Perhaps your response is the end of the discussion but I'm confused.

     

    On some level the checking or ticking off the boxes of some folders and not others would seem, obviously, to suggest that which items to sync is folder-driven (or decided). Your point about iTunes being metadata-driven would, I think, suggest that I am either selecting videos with certain metadata that shows these items are video content and that that is a universal setting - that is, all videos are included even if those folders are not ticked - true?

     

    Would that Apple could allow a user to include the selection of folders and to allow for only certain metadata to be synced from that folder, in my case, opting in or out of video content unique to that folder.

     

    It seems that that could be accommodated but I just don't know. If the metadata pertaining to the folder contents can include photos when the folder is ticked, why not recognize video metadata as well? Maybe there is something here I just don't understand.

     

    Thanks again,

    SNazz123 

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