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Location of Itune Music

I have not used Itunes for a long time but now when I try to play music on itunes I get this message

'...the original file could not be found. Would you like to located it?' but I am unable to locate it.

Any solution to this?

Posted on Feb 15, 2020 7:40 PM

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Posted on Feb 15, 2020 10:05 PM

This means that the location Music used to have for this track is no longer there.


Was the music located on a shared or removable drive that is no longer there?


Under Music -> Preferences -> Advanced it will show you where the media folder is located. If that location no longer has your music, you can try and do a search for one particular track and see if you can find it on the MAC and either copy it back to where the media folder is, or if all the music changed, change the media folder location to where the track is.


Example: The song Come Together is missing.


Hit Command + Spacebar and type Come Together. This will search the Mac for the file.


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Feb 15, 2020 10:05 PM in response to locatemusic

This means that the location Music used to have for this track is no longer there.


Was the music located on a shared or removable drive that is no longer there?


Under Music -> Preferences -> Advanced it will show you where the media folder is located. If that location no longer has your music, you can try and do a search for one particular track and see if you can find it on the MAC and either copy it back to where the media folder is, or if all the music changed, change the media folder location to where the track is.


Example: The song Come Together is missing.


Hit Command + Spacebar and type Come Together. This will search the Mac for the file.


Location of Itune Music

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