jonnyreggae
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Q: Making iTunes library find missing tracks in multiple, not one by one

OK so this is a problem that has been dogging me for a few weeks now. Due to lack of space on both my laptop and external drive my music files have been in 2 separate places. I finally bought myself a TB drive and have moved all of my files to the new drive. However, the iTunes library now cannot find around 2000 files. Every time I click to play the exclamation mark pops up and i have to manually find the new location, and there is no function to make the library realise that it could find all the missing files there. Is there any way round this problem?

Second problem is that now I have pointed iTunes in the right direction to the new drive (Lacie/iTunes) there seems to be a new folder created by iTunes called Music to which new imports are added. This folder sits in amongst all my other artist folders. How can I get iTunes to not do this? If I moved all of my existing folders into this new Music folder I would have the same problem with iTunes not being able to find files but for th whole of my collection.

I really dont want to have to create a new library as it is imperitive that I keep my library ordered in Date Added order.

Any help on this greatly appreciated.

Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Mar 23, 2010 3:32 AM

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  • by Darkopop,

    Darkopop Darkopop Jul 25, 2016 5:59 AM in response to thecansecoman
    Level 1 (8 points)
    Jul 25, 2016 5:59 AM in response to thecansecoman

    I have similar problem.

    I select "Copy files to iTunes Media folder...", but it takes to much space on primary SSD. I delete music from iTunes Media folder, and change iTunes Media folder location to location where i store music.

    But now i have problem. All files are missing now, i locate files manually but iTunes cant find rest of music.

    I uncheck "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Media folder..."

     

    I have 3000 songs and i cant do it manually.

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jul 25, 2016 6:08 AM in response to Darkopop
    Level 10 (88,349 points)
    Apple TV
    Jul 25, 2016 6:08 AM in response to Darkopop

    Take a look at Make a split library portable. You should set out your library on the drive where you want it to live. Moving files from one volume to another after they have been added to iTunes just causes problems.

     

    tt2

  • by iHateful,

    iHateful iHateful Jul 25, 2016 11:24 AM in response to turingtest2
    Level 1 (4 points)
    iTunes
    Jul 25, 2016 11:24 AM in response to turingtest2

    Finally i found out what was wrong with my iTunes... i found 80/500 in first try. and then it did not find any new songs....

    well let's begin this adventure what i did:

    I had this great idea to organize all my songs in one place. 1500songs in back up driver (not listinging currently) and my 500 songs that i listen in my E: driver. well there was so many duplicated songs after i had put them all in one folder... so i started to remove all those copies ( had 1/2 or copy 1/2 ) (for some reason there was few songs that was quadrupled...

    So i deleted all those and left only the original files there. started itunes and as i said before... 400missing songs...

    after 2 hours researching and googling and one by one finding these songs. i found out...

    That in my C:...user/itunes/itunesmusic/etc. folder had songs that were those duplicated versions. So of course itunes could not found them cause it's file name was slightly different. And i was wondering how that finder script was supposed to use... and i gave up for it. but i think it did not have that opinion either way. but sigh... so that may be problem to someone else too. so before you rib your hair out this may be the problem.

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