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Itunes 11 deleted ALL my music!

After going into Itunes after updating, all my music is showing the ! next to the song saying itunes cannot find the original file. Everything was there and working yesterday. Went into the itunes library where it would normally be stored. NOTHING. My computer is saying I have 9kb of music on it. There should be over 160 gigs. I have a time capsule backup from October, but there is no way to get anything I added this month back.


Is anyone else having this issue?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 30, 2012 4:13 PM

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Posted on Dec 1, 2012 10:42 PM

This just happened to me. Over 30 GB of music is just gone! ***? Hey Apple...any response to this? What the **** is going on? I just spent an entire day importing CDs and now they are gone. I'm livid!!!!!!

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Jan 22, 2015 11:08 AM in response to ksbelle

ksbelle wrote:

Chris CA; Why not simply restore from your backup or redownload or reRIP from the CDs?

One...my husband took a couple years putting everything into the main PC and then got rid of the CD's

😟 Then you don't actually own that music anymore...

This is your answer for everyone here

Except it's not. However, it is by far the simplest way to recover everything.

Oh, wait we are to pay out the butt for cloud so that you can say "why not just restore from backup"

Why would you pay Apple for iCloud to backup your music when you can't do that?

Ya, my hubby got the task of backing up done, but still have to hassle with putting them back into ITunes

Just restore the entire iTunes folder. That is all you need to do.

Nothing difficult about that. It may take a few minutes depending on how large it is but you do not need to do anything else.

yeah, I still will be going the android route from now on

Because android is perfect and nothing about ever fails and everything is always exactly where you want/expect it to be.

Okay.

FYI: Android is for phones and iTunes is for computers.

So you are getting rid of your computers and only using Android phones from now on?

Good luck!

Apr 26, 2015 7:31 AM in response to elvenqueen86

I just backed up my iPhone to my Mac yesterday. BTW I am using iTunes 12. And, guess what? Today I found out that nearly the half of my iTunes library is gone on my iPhone. The songs got deleted were not based on the date I have bought them, it was absolutely random. At least I remembered that I could download them from iCloud, so I did. I haven't installed the latest IOS update (8.2 I guess). As long as the update wouldn't matter that much because this will still happen if I have updated the IOS too. Hey Apple, give us an answer. What the **** happened and why?.

Apr 27, 2015 3:37 AM in response to Lil Chubs

This happened to me also, basically my entire music library including things I bought was totally deleted. I don't even have a ballpark idea of how to get any of it back. Some of it I can't replace or repurchase. Is it gone forever!?!


What the **** iTunes?


How do you even contact support about this type of thing? its not like they can magically make my music reappear.

Itunes 11 deleted ALL my music!

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