System restore - 'file not found' nightmare
I have a very large collection of classical and jazz music which has required a
lot of manual input to get the track info right.
The music is held on an external hard drive and itunes itself is on my PC hard drive.
Recently I had to carry out a system restore.
This deleted all my itunes programmes and library files but created an Old Windows directory into which they were saved.
So I had to re-install itunes and copied over the library and xml files from the Old Windows directory
While the music now displays correctly in itunes nothing will play and I just get a 'the original file cannot be found message' for every single track.
We're talking thousands of tracks here so locating them one by one is not an option - and as they are classical music I need to keep all the track information as in hundreds of cases it had to be entered manually because itunes and other programmes to retrieve data are totally useless for classical music.
I have no ipod to back up from as the whole point of the exercise is to get my music files on the PC into a shape where they can be sync'd to an ipod without most of them showing as 'unknown'.
Any suggestions? - the old xml and library files still exist, the mp3s they should refer to have not actually moved as they are on the same external drive - surely there must be a way to do this without locating each individual track?
The music is held on an external hard drive and itunes itself is on my PC hard drive.
Recently I had to carry out a system restore.
This deleted all my itunes programmes and library files but created an Old Windows directory into which they were saved.
So I had to re-install itunes and copied over the library and xml files from the Old Windows directory
While the music now displays correctly in itunes nothing will play and I just get a 'the original file cannot be found message' for every single track.
We're talking thousands of tracks here so locating them one by one is not an option - and as they are classical music I need to keep all the track information as in hundreds of cases it had to be entered manually because itunes and other programmes to retrieve data are totally useless for classical music.
I have no ipod to back up from as the whole point of the exercise is to get my music files on the PC into a shape where they can be sync'd to an ipod without most of them showing as 'unknown'.
Any suggestions? - the old xml and library files still exist, the mp3s they should refer to have not actually moved as they are on the same external drive - surely there must be a way to do this without locating each individual track?
Windows Vista
