itunes sausage
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- usrper
i open my itunes (don't even know why it's closed to begin with), then it asks if i want to start a new library or import one.
then I can't find my old library (few hundred gigs). I suppose I can start a new one but that would take days, AND all my playlists are gone!!!
has this happened to anyone?
- jaylarson0
didja happen to press OPTION while opening the app? that is a way to create another library, seperate from previously made one.
further, you can then press option while opening it to access different libraries created... at least that is my understanding of it.
- usrper0
hm... that seems like what happened, but not sure. but i can't find the library i was using though... it sucks!
- horton0
if you don't know where your library data file is, my guess would be with all your mp3's... just search for any track?
- usrper0
thing is ones i found are old.
do we have to like, save or back up our libraries once in a while otherwise you can lose them?
- pascii0
backup, backup, backup....
- horton0
in OSX; user/ usrper/ music/ itunes... ? should be a "previous libraries" folder in there too.
that said if you can't find a few hundred gigs of music i'd say it's more likely disk/ damaged directory trouble you're experiencing..
- harlequino0
itunes sausage
(Apr 3 07, 21:39)
I brought italian sausage for lunch. Mmmm!
- horton0
did you change the name of a disk or something?
the "iTunes Library" database file and "iTunes Music Library.xml" are what you're looking for to recover playlists etc.
but 100gbs of missing mp3s sounds like a bad accident or disk failure.
- usrper0
actually no the files are all there... just that the list is gone... like the library is gone.
does that make sense?
what is the library.xml for?
- cacoe0
library.xml is where itunes stores all your libraries organizational information. So if the music is there on your hard drive but iTunes doesn't know where it is, library.xml has been deleted or is corrupt etc etc.
Just drag the songs back onto iTunes and it'll put em all back in place again. (you can drag the entire folder)
- usrper0
yea its just that i have a lot of playlists and such...
- ********0
man up - drag the folder in