elvenqueen86

Q: Itunes 11 deleted ALL my music!

After going into Itunes after updating, all my music is showing the ! next to the song saying itunes cannot find the original file. Everything was there and working yesterday. Went into the itunes library where it would normally be stored. NOTHING. My computer is saying I have 9kb of music on it. There should be over 160 gigs. I have a time capsule backup from October, but there is no way to get anything I added this month back.

 

Is anyone else having this issue?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 30, 2012 4:13 PM

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  • by thomasky,

    thomasky thomasky Oct 10, 2014 5:28 PM in response to Lil Chubs
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    Oct 10, 2014 5:28 PM in response to Lil Chubs

    same here, all purchased music disappeared

  • by AnnDavidson,

    AnnDavidson AnnDavidson Oct 11, 2014 9:20 AM in response to thomasky
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    Oct 11, 2014 9:20 AM in response to thomasky

    I thought I had lost my mind for a second! Thank God for these forums. APPLE whatcha doing about this? Either fix this latest "upgrade" or give us our money back. Even songs that weren't purchased on iTunes are gone.

     

    APPLE - YEA talking to you here!!! FIX IT NOW PLEASE!

  • by HowieC34,

    HowieC34 HowieC34 Oct 16, 2014 2:12 PM in response to josht111
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    Oct 16, 2014 2:12 PM in response to josht111

    Another "LIVID" user here.  I have over 100 gigs of music and my main folder is YEARS worth of carefully ripped, named and cataloged MP3s. 

     

    I never had one issue until I started trying to put music in my iPad several years ago.  At one point, I "let" itunes "keep my music organized" which completely redid my file system.  Several other times, whole CD's have been deleted.  (I don't use AVG).  I have had at least 5 times that itunes delete all the music off my ipad, only it really didn't because all the memory was used but not tunes showed up.  Multiple other issues, and several times spent HOURS rebuilding the library, or hours and hours reloading it to ipad.

     

    So last week I had tones of old stuff in my recycle bin and I emptied it for the first time in months.  Now I notice today, that song #1 is missing from every album I've checked.  Several of them are missing song #2 as well, but ALL of them are missing the first song.  In my primary music folder there are over 700 ripped CDs of MY music.  And EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM (sorry for yelling, but I can't punch somebody!) is gone.  Every album starts with the second song.  This means why whole catalog of music is ruined now and every single CD has to be redone to add the first song back in. 

     

    Last week was the last time my whole music catalog got wiped off the ipad and I was fuming at the prospect of once again spending hours redoing it.  But this.... this is FAR worse.  I already put an iPod and a iPad Mini Retina on my Christmas list for this year.  Not only are both coming off, but I'll never buy another product from Apple as long as I live.  The almighty "we are better" thing is cool if everything IS better but this software has sucked completely in every version on an otherwise perfectly running and clean Windows 7 machine.  It even deleted a just recorded original song I did myself and it wasn't backed up yet since it was just completed! 

     

    Delete music off my ipad and hours spent rebuilding it = a waste of my time.  Deleting it off my hard drive, when some of it is lost, some CD's sold,  or from no longer playable CDs...That music is lost for good! . COMPLETELY INTOLERABLE!   I'm out. 

  • by nobodycaresapple,

    nobodycaresapple nobodycaresapple Oct 17, 2014 12:27 PM in response to elvenqueen86
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    Oct 17, 2014 12:27 PM in response to elvenqueen86

    I too have lost all of my files. My entire library is just wiped out - all I see is U2. http://i.imgur.com/nRbMjK3.png it's not funny and really messed up. Running Win7, x64.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Oct 17, 2014 2:59 PM in response to AnnDavidson
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    Oct 17, 2014 2:59 PM in response to AnnDavidson

    AnnDavidson wrote:

     

    I thought I had lost my mind for a second! Thank God for these forums. APPLE whatcha doing about this? Either fix this latest "upgrade" or give us our money back. Even songs that weren't purchased on iTunes are gone.

     

    APPLE - YEA talking to you here!!! FIX IT NOW PLEASE!

     

    Apple are not here. Try feedback

     

    Pete

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Oct 17, 2014 3:01 PM in response to HowieC34
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    Oct 17, 2014 3:01 PM in response to HowieC34

    HowieC34 wrote:

     

    Another "LIVID" user here.  I have over 100 gigs of music and my main folder is YEARS worth of carefully ripped, named and cataloged MP3s.

     

    I never had one issue until I started trying to put music in my iPad several years ago.  At one point, I "let" itunes "keep my music organized" which completely redid my file system.  Several other times, whole CD's have been deleted.  (I don't use AVG).  I have had at least 5 times that itunes delete all the music off my ipad, only it really didn't because all the memory was used but not tunes showed up.  Multiple other issues, and several times spent HOURS rebuilding the library, or hours and hours reloading it to ipad.

     

    So last week I had tones of old stuff in my recycle bin and I emptied it for the first time in months.  Now I notice today, that song #1 is missing from every album I've checked.  Several of them are missing song #2 as well, but ALL of them are missing the first song.  In my primary music folder there are over 700 ripped CDs of MY music.  And EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM (sorry for yelling, but I can't punch somebody!) is gone.  Every album starts with the second song.  This means why whole catalog of music is ruined now and every single CD has to be redone to add the first song back in.

     

    Last week was the last time my whole music catalog got wiped off the ipad and I was fuming at the prospect of once again spending hours redoing it.  But this.... this is FAR worse.  I already put an iPod and a iPad Mini Retina on my Christmas list for this year.  Not only are both coming off, but I'll never buy another product from Apple as long as I live.  The almighty "we are better" thing is cool if everything IS better but this software has sucked completely in every version on an otherwise perfectly running and clean Windows 7 machine.  It even deleted a just recorded original song I did myself and it wasn't backed up yet since it was just completed!

     

    Delete music off my ipad and hours spent rebuilding it = a waste of my time.  Deleting it off my hard drive, when some of it is lost, some CD's sold,  or from no longer playable CDs...That music is lost for good! . COMPLETELY INTOLERABLE!   I'm out.

    Apple are not here. Try feedback

    Or better still, open your own thread instead of ranting in a two year old thread. Have you not updated iTunes in TWO YEARS? Sounds like time you check your software updates!!!!!

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

    Pete

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Oct 17, 2014 3:01 PM in response to nobodycaresapple
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    Oct 17, 2014 3:01 PM in response to nobodycaresapple

    nobodycaresapple wrote:

     

    I too have lost all of my files. My entire library is just wiped out - all I see is U2. http://i.imgur.com/nRbMjK3.png it's not funny and really messed up. Running Win7, x64.

    Reinstall your backup files.

     

    Pete

  • by janther,

    janther janther Dec 21, 2014 10:36 PM in response to petermac87
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    Dec 21, 2014 10:36 PM in response to petermac87

    This just happened to me as well. I've spent hours this week adding a bunch of music to my new iphone 6 and bam - all deleted.

    I know this isn't this place to say how awful itunes is as a program, but it really is. (keeping 2 of the same song on my phone even though 1 has been deleted, sorting artists incorrectly, artwork not showing up even though I've added it correctly, etc, etc, etc.)  The weird part is, the music is still taking up space on my phone (says itunes!), so that's great. I love wasting 15 gb's on nothing. For the biggest company in the world to have such horrible software is crazy. I'm not sure how anyone, even the biggest Apple nerd can defend it.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Dec 21, 2014 10:39 PM in response to janther
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    Dec 21, 2014 10:39 PM in response to janther

    janther wrote:

     

    I'm not sure how anyone, even the biggest Apple nerd can defend it.

    Perhaps because very very few are seeing it. Try starting your own thread. This one is over two years old and about an earlier version of iTunes.

     

    Pete

  • by janther,

    janther janther Dec 21, 2014 11:46 PM in response to petermac87
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    Dec 21, 2014 11:46 PM in response to petermac87

    I must have a really unlucky circle of friends.

    Also, I didn't think I should make a new thread since the last reply was from just 2 months ago, but I guess I'll take your advice.

  • by tumblr.hipster,

    tumblr.hipster tumblr.hipster Jan 1, 2015 9:33 PM in response to elvenqueen86
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    Jan 1, 2015 9:33 PM in response to elvenqueen86

    Itunes with the update decided to delete all music that wasn't transfered from the itunes store or a actual cd. They are trying to reduce the illegal downloading that has became so popular lately.

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Jan 2, 2015 6:17 AM in response to tumblr.hipster
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    Jan 2, 2015 6:17 AM in response to tumblr.hipster

    tumblr.hipster wrote:

     

    Itunes with the update decided to delete all music that wasn't transfered from the itunes store or a actual cd. They are trying to reduce the illegal downloading that has became so popular lately.

    This is simply untrue and you are just posting FUD.

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Jan 2, 2015 6:47 AM in response to tumblr.hipster
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    Jan 2, 2015 6:47 AM in response to tumblr.hipster

    tumblr.hipster wrote:

    Itunes with the update decided to delete all music that wasn't transfered from the itunes store or a actual cd.

    So why is my library fine with lots of non-CD and non-iTunes purchased music?

    They are trying to reduce the illegal downloading that has became so popular lately.

    No, Apple is not "policing" iTunes libraries..

  • by ksbelle,

    ksbelle ksbelle Jan 22, 2015 3:52 AM in response to elvenqueen86
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    Jan 22, 2015 3:52 AM in response to elvenqueen86

    I did some digging and I found something that at least helped me. I tried a few things I found in this forum, but they were not working. Luckly I only have an IPod Classic so was not a too big getting things restored for us. Still lost probably about $100 in music. Anyways, hubby will still be ****** but what can you do. Apple is not going to help us get any of this back so I will just be adding to I IPod when it is a song that I really like that I have paid for from Google or Amazon. I didn't want to go on a rant, but they deleted my post where I was ranting on a new thread.

     

    So here is what I found. Hope maybe this helps someone.

     

    http://techchannel.radioshack.com/transfer-music-ipod-classic-computer-1873.html

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Jan 22, 2015 6:46 AM in response to ksbelle
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    Jan 22, 2015 6:46 AM in response to ksbelle

    ksbelle wrote:

    Luckly I only have an IPod Classic so was not a too big getting things restored for us. Still lost probably about $100 in music. Anyways, hubby will still be ****** but what can you do. Apple is not going to help us get any of this back

    Why not simply restore from your backup or redownload or reRIP from the CDs?

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