All my music disappeared. No more library file. What the f happened??! Help please!
Hi. I'm a working musician so this issue is really important to me. I've combed through google search results and so far have been totally unable to find an answer or a modicum of one.
What happened: I opened my Music app and it was empty clean. I had over 350Gb or music on it and it's all gone, safe for the last album I imported (two days ago), and that U2 album Apple keeps shoving in our faces.
What I'm running: Catalina 10.15.2 on a 13in pro from mid-2012.
Notes: I haven't rebooted my macbook in at least a full week, but sometimes when I wake up, I can see that it must have rebooted by itself because the session is new. I've checked again and auto-update is definitely turned off, so it cannot be because of that.
Also, I am aware that Catalina screwed everybody when it killed iTunes off, but I've already been through my own purgatory to get a working library up and running on Music. Actually, since the upgrade, I've never had a single trouble with Music. It does what it's supposed to do. Well, it does screw up the Artwork thing but I can live with that. What I can't live with, is having lost all my work from these past two months –– I use the playlists organisation heavily for my original music.
Lastly, there's only a single "Music Library.musiclibrary" file in my "/Music" folder, last modified when I last closed my Music app (so five minutes ago), that one is useless. I've looked everywhere on the computer for any other file that would have been misplaced while I was sleeping but couldn't find any.
Inside "/Music/media/Music", I can still see all my files. Please, don't advise me to "simply" put them back into "/Music/media/Automatically Add to Music" as that will not help with my playlists, play counts, and other very important informations I absolutely need for my professional activities.
Thank you in advance for any answer.
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.13