I remain completely lost. I seem to have a TimeMachine backup, but cannot identify the relavent file. I had thousand of hours of music from cds that I uploaded. Where was this information stored? The file must be huge, but I can’t find it in Time Machine.am I being impatient? How long does a typical Time Machine search last? Apple telephone support has been worse than useless. The support people I have talked with seem to know less than I do. I have tried following advice given here but I am having no luck. I don’t believe that I have erased anything. Could the upgrade to Monterey from Mojave have erased my music? I am getting pretty desperate faced with the prospect of reentering thousands of cds.
Most responses say start Music with the option jet depressed and do to the Music (iTunes) folder or to a Time Machine backup, but I have tried this several times. Now I have multiple music folders, but none contains my former libra7ry,
Either I have missed something important or Time Machine didn’t back up my iTunes library. I find the former easy to believe, but not the latter. A Daisy Disk scan showed 283.8 GB in “iTunes backup” of which 229 GB was music. which suggests that the music is still somewhere. I can even see album titles as well as their sizes. The iTunes backup file is in the Movies folder under Users/MyName/Movies/iTunes backup. The most recent library seems to be early 2020 though I have been adding music right up to February 2022.
Where do I go next? When I bought my iMac I moved my iTunes library to it. Is this the iTunes backup file? I have added a lot of music to iTunes since then. When I imported the library could it be possible that iTunes has been adding the new music to that iTunes backup file?
inam really trying to understand this before doing anything unforgivable. Since I am unfamiliar with Time Machine I am worried about recovery.
Please help if you can.
