re-download offline again issue

ok,,, When i force quit iTunes it did change the file .itl file to (Damaged)" "unknown file type" i figue the "link" was broken.

and re-created new one..

I then tried renaming empty one to .bak and rename "damaged" one back to .itl, and relaunched iTunes again, but it kept going over the same process..

There was no .tmp files.

So i just decided the only way was to start fresh and re-download music By changing damaged file back to .itl i was expecting the "link" to be repaired.... and offline music would just show up... Didn't happen.

I was playing at the time i needed to force close, so i know any music offiline would have been intact itself even if the library could not be updated...

I was hoping play count, meta data at the least only.,..

It happened a 2nd time but i learnt a lesson. I did have a backup .it file while i restored, but it didn't make a difference...

Maybie with locally important songs it would have not with Apple music offline songs..

oh well... another re-download then.. This is getting annoying.

I can understand keeping a backup, when it works, but it seems this is a big exception for offline music. Why ? A backup in that case is useless. I can understand Apple's view of it being toes to an account and that is fine for authentication, but you know its you doing it, that's when it becomes a problem..

The side of things that protect miss-use are also the same rules that break stuff from a genuine perspective as well.

This is one of those cases.

I actually tried this with some locally imported songs, just to see if the same would happen when *I* Force quit, and i could not reproduce the issue ... Then i figured, "there is probably a difference between a user force quitting a working app vs an app that is completely non-responsive anyway"

oh well. I'm sure i did everything correct...