How do I reinstall my music library into iTunes?

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pdmeloon Author

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How do I reinstall my music library into iTunes?

I reinstaled iTunes since it kept crashing. How do I reunite my music from my external hard drive to iTunes?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), MacBook, iMac, iPhone, iPod, iPhone

Posted on Mar 18, 2012 4:17 AM

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Limnos

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Mar 18, 2012 8:26 AM in response to pdmeloon

Hold down the option key while starting iTunes, then guide it to the Library.itl file on the external drive. If this is not on the external drive then it is on the internal drive and hopefully it was not part of what you got rid of when you worked on iTunes.

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dave285

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Mar 18, 2012 8:32 AM in response to Limnos

Similar question. I am about to deinstall iTunes because it won't open on my iMac, then reinstall it but I want to make sure I don't delete all my music files. Can you offer some guidance? I use a backup hard drive.

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Chris CA

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Mar 18, 2012 10:11 AM in response to dave285

Removing and/or reinstalling iTunes does not affect your iTunes library or media.

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pdmeloon Author

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Mar 18, 2012 10:24 AM in response to dave285

I just threw away the iTunes icon (program) in applications. When I downloaded and reinstalled iTunes I did do the hold down option key while starting it up and then I navigated to my music folder and it worked perfectly.

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pdmeloon Author

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Mar 18, 2012 10:27 AM in response to Limnos

Thank you Limnos. This took care of the issue.

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