Q: after a power outage my Itunes library is lost
I am North of the Arctic circle at work, and today while talking to my wife she informed me that the family Itunes library is empty. Here are the details
1- I have a Mac mini server running in the basement on a flat screen TV, I use this as my home enertainment center. There are Apple TVs on the rest of the TV's in the house and I have home sharing on
2- thunder storms have caused a power outage
3- The library has been cleaned. The items i still had for down load are still down loading, but all my movies, songs, apps, ect are not listed.
4- I was always going to get around to backing it up, and didn't. Iknow, I know
I think all the items are still there, I tunes just can't find them. One of the two hard drives was approaching full and i was looking at relocating the itunes files to the second hard drive, BUT being a novice with computers I was stumbling and never got it done. I had looked into it and remember scrolling through the screens that had been listed in forums.
I wonder if i did move the files and the restart finished what i had screwed up?
So here is the questions
How do i search for Itunes files? the program runs, but the data is not there
How do i teach Itunes to look where i dropped the files when and if i find them?
thank you for looking, thank you more if you have an answer
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), mac mini server
Posted on Jun 7, 2012 8:09 PM
What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
Posted on Jun 8, 2012 6:42 AM