Guess you shouldn't have checked the little "don't show this warning again" box when you first tried to delete a playlist. Then at least you'd get a warning if you accidentally hit the delete key.
A few weeks ago I deleted a couple songs and clicked away the warning without reading it. A minute later, I wondered why it was taking so long. It deleted my entire library
And your choice to disable or cursorily ignore the secondary warning is Apples fault how??? Apple put the warning in, and let users disable the warning when they don't want to be treated like newbies who need their hand held just in case. No amount of systemic intervention can fix that, its purely PEBCAK. Any more indepth attemt to fix that just gets you the the old Windows three in a row "Do you really want to do that?" problem which is just as annoying as Clippy.
Well, an Undo would be a nice feature, and not exactly difficult.
Trashing a file is a two step process. You 'trash' it, but then you have to empty the trash to actually delete it. Something similar for iTunes songs wouldn't be a bad idea. Heck, it could even *use* the Trash as the holding area for files to be deleted.
Playlists and such are even easier.
Yeah, clicking through or disabling the dialog and then making a mistake is definitely PEBCAK, but there's a good mechanism sitting *right there* to be used.
Trashing a file is a two step process. You 'trash' it, but then you have to empty the trash to actually delete it. Something similar for iTunes songs wouldn't be a bad idea. Heck, it could even *use* the Trash as the holding area for files to be deleted.
That's what happens when I delete iTunes tracks, it puts them in the trash first.
Recently spent more than an hour unchecking songs to free up room on the ipod. Accidently clicked ?alt check on one and unchecked whole list. Had to do it all over again. Things like that make you want to pull your hair out.
This time I am using rating of one star on my unchecked items so I can easily filter them in case I need to uncheck again. I cannot seem to find a way to sort or filter by UNchecked items (you can include only checked items but that does not help in this situation)
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J/K I too lost several wicked-cool playlists so I know your pain.
Good thing I had it all on my iPod.
Trashing a file is a two step process. You 'trash' it, but then you have to empty the trash to actually delete it. Something similar for iTunes songs wouldn't be a bad idea. Heck, it could even *use* the Trash as the holding area for files to be deleted.
Playlists and such are even easier.
Yeah, clicking through or disabling the dialog and then making a mistake is definitely PEBCAK, but there's a good mechanism sitting *right there* to be used.
Originally posted by Kickaha
Trashing a file is a two step process. You 'trash' it, but then you have to empty the trash to actually delete it. Something similar for iTunes songs wouldn't be a bad idea. Heck, it could even *use* the Trash as the holding area for files to be deleted.
That's what happens when I delete iTunes tracks, it puts them in the trash first.
Originally posted by Endymion
That's what happens when I delete iTunes tracks, it puts them in the trash first.
Ditto.
Originally posted by Endymion
That's what happens when I delete iTunes tracks, it puts them in the trash first.
But all sorts of important stuff like playlists, playcounts, and start/end times are gone forever.
This time I am using rating of one star on my unchecked items so I can easily filter them in case I need to uncheck again. I cannot seem to find a way to sort or filter by UNchecked items (you can include only checked items but that does not help in this situation)
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