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 ksbelle,

    ksbelle ksbelle Jan 22, 2015 10:47 AM in response to Chris CA
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    Jan 22, 2015 10:47 AM in response to Chris CA

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

     

    One...my husband took a couple years putting everything into the main PC and then got rid of the CD's. So, ya reRIPing was not an option for me this morning. At the time of the original post I was not aware that my husband was able to back everything that he had been working on with Movies and CD's. So, now that I know that I will be able to do that.

     

    This is your answer for everyone here. Some people are not as lucky. So I was just sharing what I was able to do.

     

    Even with all this and seeing how long this has been going on...yeah, I still will be going the android route from now on. I should not have to redownload my music every time Apple decides to update. I have been reading were people are loosing pictures on their phones also. Oh, wait we are to pay out the butt for cloud so that you can say "why not just restore from backup". Apple is messing up and sorry, I am still not happy. Ya, my hubby got the task of backing up done, but still have to hassle with putting them back into ITunes. Still have to go to other computer that this also happened with and restore all that music on that one too. So thanks to Apple there are hours lost from my day to restore what I should not have to in the first place!!

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Jan 22, 2015 11:08 AM in response to ksbelle
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    Jan 22, 2015 11:08 AM in response to ksbelle

    ksbelle wrote:

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

    One...my husband took a couple years putting everything into the main PC and then got rid of the CD's

    Then you don't actually own that music anymore...

    This is your answer for everyone here

    Except it's not. However, it is by far the simplest way to recover everything.

    Oh, wait we are to pay out the butt for cloud so that you can say "why not just restore from backup"

    Why would you pay Apple for iCloud to backup your music when you can't do that?

    Ya, my hubby got the task of backing up done, but still have to hassle with putting them back into ITunes

    Just restore the entire iTunes folder. That is all you need to do.

    Nothing difficult about that. It may take a few minutes depending on how large it is but you do not need to do anything else.

    yeah, I still will be going the android route from now on

    Because android is perfect and nothing about ever fails and everything is always exactly where you want/expect it to be.

    Okay.

    FYI: Android is for phones and iTunes is for computers.

    So you are getting rid of your computers and only using Android phones from now on?

    Good luck!

  • by xx4,

    xx4 xx4 Apr 8, 2015 12:57 PM in response to pfetsch
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    Apr 8, 2015 12:57 PM in response to pfetsch

    What is Match?

     

    Where do I find the tabs to reconnect ITunes with Match?


    Thanks so much!

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Apr 8, 2015 2:25 PM in response to xx4
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    Apr 8, 2015 2:25 PM in response to xx4

    xx4 wrote:

    What is Match?

     

    See this -> https://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-match/

  • by Mr. Can,

    Mr. Can Mr. Can Apr 26, 2015 7:31 AM in response to elvenqueen86
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    Apr 26, 2015 7:31 AM in response to elvenqueen86

    I just backed up my iPhone to my Mac yesterday. BTW I am using iTunes 12. And, guess what? Today I found out that nearly the half of my iTunes library is gone on my iPhone. The songs got deleted were not based on the date I have bought them, it was absolutely random. At least I remembered that I could download them from iCloud, so I did. I haven't installed the latest IOS update (8.2 I guess). As long as the update wouldn't matter that much because this will still happen if I have updated the IOS too. Hey Apple, give us an answer. What the **** happened and why?.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Apr 26, 2015 8:00 AM in response to Mr. Can
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    Apr 26, 2015 8:00 AM in response to Mr. Can

    You are in a three year old thread about another. Edison of iTunes. ALeo Apple are not here, just other users. Start a new and relevant thread.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

  • by damber.howard,

    damber.howard damber.howard Apr 27, 2015 3:37 AM in response to Lil Chubs
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    Apr 27, 2015 3:37 AM in response to Lil Chubs

    This happened to me also, basically my entire music library including things I bought was totally deleted. I don't even have a ballpark idea of how to get any of it back. Some of it I can't replace or repurchase. Is it gone forever!?!

     

    What the **** iTunes?

     

    How do you even contact support about this type of thing? its not like they can magically make my music reappear.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Apr 27, 2015 3:57 AM in response to damber.howard
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    Apr 27, 2015 3:57 AM in response to damber.howard

    It will still be in your backup, just reimport in from there. User > Music > iTunes Library.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

  • by ralf2010,

    ralf2010 ralf2010 Jul 10, 2015 7:40 PM in response to elvenqueen86
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    Jul 10, 2015 7:40 PM in response to elvenqueen86

    This happened to me and help me fix this 100gbytes gone

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Jul 10, 2015 10:15 PM in response to ralf2010
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    Jul 10, 2015 10:15 PM in response to ralf2010

    ralf2010 wrote:

     

    This happened to me and help me fix this 100gbytes gone

    Thanks goodness for backups...

  • by mikaelamm,

    mikaelamm mikaelamm Mar 28, 2016 1:32 AM in response to elvenqueen86
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    Mar 28, 2016 1:32 AM in response to elvenqueen86

    I updated my iTunes and it deleted all of my music!!!!!!!! APPLE??????? Why!??????

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Mar 28, 2016 1:41 AM in response to mikaelamm
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    Mar 28, 2016 1:41 AM in response to mikaelamm

    DO you still have an iTunes library in your music folder? Hopefully you have a good backup if not.

     

    Pete

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Mar 28, 2016 8:17 AM in response to mikaelamm
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    Mar 28, 2016 8:17 AM in response to mikaelamm

    mikaelamm wrote:

     

    I updated my iTunes and it deleted all of my music!!!!!!!! APPLE??????? Why!??????

     

    See Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash.

     

    tt2

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