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Q: iTunes 12 can't locate my music


After upgrading to iTunes 12 it can't locate my music which is on the E drive.   It also shows only about 1200 tracks when I've probably got in excess of 6000. When I look at the info for individual tracks it seem to think they are on the C drive. However, when I look in Preferences/Advanced it does say that my iTunes media is stored under E:\Music which is where they are.

 

It worked fine before the upgrade - any suggestions please.

 

Halli

Posted on Nov 24, 2014 3:43 AM

by turingtest2,Solvedanswer
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The media folder under preferences should be ..\iTunes\iTunes Media. Music then falls into the music subfolder. To make sure that everything in the iTunes Media folder is connected to iTunes you can use File > Add Folder to Library > iTunes Media.

 

tt2

Posted on Nov 25, 2014 4:50 PM

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  • by turingtest2,Helpful

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Nov 26, 2014 2:08 PM in response to Hallix
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    Nov 26, 2014 2:08 PM in response to Hallix

    Excellent, that makes things easy.

     

    Move any anything inside E:\Music\iTunes that isn't the iTunes Media folder out of the way, e.g. into E:\Music for now.

     

    Copy the following from your C drive:

     

    iTunes Library 2014-11-24.itl

    iTunes Library 2014-11-24.xml

    iTunes Library 2014-11-24 Extras.itdb

    iTunes Library 2014-11-24 Genius.itdb

    sentinel (which is hidden)

    and the Album Artwork folder

     

    into E:\Music\iTunes. Edit the date out of each of the four dated files so they become:

     

    iTunes Library.itl

    iTunes Library.xml

    iTunes Library Extras.itdb

    iTunes Library Genius.itdb

     

    Shift-start iTunes, click the Choose Library option then browse to and open E:\Music\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl

     

    Personally having made the library work there I would close it, then move the iTunes folder up one level so it becomes E:\iTunes and shift-start to connect to it again.

     

    tt2

  • by Hallix,Helpful

    Hallix Hallix Nov 26, 2014 2:41 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Nov 26, 2014 2:41 PM in response to turingtest2

    Great, that's working fine.  Thanks for all your help and patience.

     

    Hallix

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    turingtest2 turingtest2 Nov 26, 2014 2:45 PM in response to Hallix
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    Nov 26, 2014 2:45 PM in response to Hallix

    You're welcome.

     

    tt2

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