Yate automatically resets track locations in iTunes when it links to a file and sees that iTunes has it in the wrong location. This works for incorrect local paths and can happen when files are moved outside of iTunes.

I've never tried it with iTunes Match and an iCloud location but I don't see why it wouldn't work. If you can locate one iCloud album in your collection you can try it as follows:

- drag the located album into Yate from the Finder
- select the files and do a Link to iTunes
- if the files link okay you can then do a Show in iTunes from the context menu on a single track
- Do a Get Info on the displayed track in iTunes. The summary panel should show the local location

If this works and Yate successfully fixes the location field in iTunes (when initially in iCloud) then there is an easy solution:

- write a simple one line action which Links to iTunes
- run the Batch Processor with the created action and drag in the root of your collection from the Finder
(This assumes that your entire collection is in iTunes)
- go have a coffee (or sleep if your collection is large) 🙂

This will basically do the same thing that you tried in the UI.

You can validate the Batch Process by trying it first by dragging in a single folder as opposed to the root folder.

Let me know if this helps.

Unfortunately that means that when iTunes 'matched' the data it put its 'cloud' based values into the database. These values probably differ from those stored in the file making it unable to find a match. Others have lost their metadata this way. Yate can fix the track locations but only if it can do a metadata only match of the tracks.

Now that I think about it, iTunes quite often forgets to update internal values. One example is when a track externally changes its location, iTunes detects the change but still reports the old location when dragging the tracks. Try dragging an 'iCloud' track from iTunes into Yates's main window. If by some miracle they were too lazy to clean out the old local location the drag should work. If it works, the track you dragged should have a 'green check' in the iTunes column. If it worked doing a 'Refresh iTunes' from Yate's context menu (with the track selected) should update the location in iTunes. In this scenario you'll have to drag all the iCloud tracks from iTunes to Yate and manually do a refresh. (Set Yate's Open Mode to Playlist so that only the dragged tracks are opened).

If it doesn't work, because the location reported to Yate is bogus or if they don't allow you to drag the track out, the only solution may be to rebuild the database. 🙁

Thanks for your suggestions. Alas, the iCloud tracks cannot be dragged into Yate's main window.