System Restore to previous iTunes version caused "New iTunes Library" error

Just spent 30 minutes reverting from the POS iTunes 11, to the fully-working, and fully-user friendly iTunes 10.7, and this thread has just saved my life! A big Thanks to "Manny 888" for their hard-work. You should be working for Apple!

Thank you!!!!! I am a total happy camper now that I have my old itunes back!!! Your instructions worked perfectly!! Now if only Apple will fix 11.0 and keep the good old stuff!

I don't understad why iTunes doesn't do any survey or something before messing around with the whole functionality of the player!!! It totally got on my nerves! Unbearable to manage and 0 functionality.

Oh, thanks a mil! I tried the other stuff about moving the .itl file, etc., and that didn't work for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Alright, I know I'm jumping into this conversation a little late, but if you could help me I'd totally appreciate it. I also had the "New iTunes Library" issue, so I took your advice and simply hit "repair" for iTunes under the "uninstall" menu. I let my computer do its thing, but now when I try to open iTunes, a box comes up telling me "the file 'iTunes Library.itl' cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes." So what have I done wrong or what do I need to do to continue? My music isn't all listed under a file called "iTunes music" in my documents because I don't buy all my music on iTunes. So I have multiple different folders for all my artists and songs under My Music. Have I lost all my music? SOS, advice from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

1. Microsoft Windows Windows Vista and Windows 7
   \Users\username\Music\iTunes\
2. Drag the iTunes Library file from the above location to the Desktop.
3. Open the Previous iTunes Libraries folder in the iTunes folder.
4. Locate the file named iTunes Library YYYY-MM-DD where YYYY-MM-DD is the date you upgraded iTunes (Year-Month-Day).
5. Drag this file to the iTunes folder (the enclosing folder).
6. Rename this file to iTunes Library.
7. Open iTunes.

These are the steps form the first post, the ones who I followed and helped me.

Wonderful - oops!!

First, THANK YOU, clanc, manny, starb.... !

This process worked.

Now there are other issues.

1. My iphone is no longer recognized & asks that I "retore to factory settings". youch, no thanks. another option?

I have 1 back up i believe. just one. as long as it's still there.

2. Two error msgs come up every time I open iTunes now: An Unkown Error Occured: -42408

Any advice? Thank you all again.

nelson

These are very detailed steps, except that I don't have any previous library folder because it is a fresh install of win7 64bit. Any Ideas on how to fix this?

I have a comfrim that Clancy1955 's method worked, Just did a revet back to itunes 10. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

PS itunes 11 absolutly *****.

I can't restore my iPhone 5 using iTune10.7 it says I need to update to the latest version.

Everything worked for me so far except the newest library i have is in 2012! is there any way to find a more recent one it's not in my time machine either 😟

I had this problem too where I couldn't even open itunes because it told me it was corrupt. I did a system restore and still couldn't open it. I took someone's advice on here and repaired it from the control panel, and it opened but it kept crashing. After that, I right clicked the itunes icon and chose 'Restore previous versions' and chose an older date, and it's perfect now.