Q: itunes damaged library file
My itunes has been working reasonably well but I have had many issues with it crashing over the last year or so. I just got a Sonos device and after having problems with indexing my songs the support guy looked through my itunes folder with me and we found a load of library files as follows:
itunes library (Damaged) Created 15 Sep 2012, modified and last opened 16 Sep 2012
itunes Library Extras.itdb Created 16 Sep 2012, modified and last opened today
itunes library genius.itdb Created 16 Sep 2012, modifed and last opened 8 Dec 2012
itunes library.itl Created 8 December 2012, modifed and last opened today
itunes library.xml Created, modified and last used 15 October 2008
itunes music library.xml Created 18 May 2009, modified and last used today
We moved all of these files up a level to the music folder, which didn't help with Sonos, and the support guy at Sonos then suggested I 'Reset' my itunes folder location in the Preferences.
THe issue with Sonos was that it was picking up some but not all of the songs and I couldn't see any sort of pattern to it. The number of songs I have is fine and there is very little if any DRM left in there.
It looks as though I need to do something to sort out these library files but I'd prefer to get some guidance from you guys on this forum.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
David
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Intel 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo
Posted on Dec 31, 2012 4:17 AM