Music has completely disappeared from ITunes library! Please Help!!
Hours and Hours of renaming, adding cover photos and so on have been for nothing. Itunes cannot find the files since they're not in the library at all!
I still have the music on my computer but don't want to add it as it is, as I have spent a lot of time "fixing" it! PLEASE HELP!
MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Thank you so much for your respons!!
However, I'm afraid I don't have a "previous itunes library" folder...I followed the instructions anyway but it didn't work.
Ps. Sorry for extremly late respons. Have been super busy and my Itunes issues have had to wait.
No worries. Search your entire computer for files of the form *.itl or your iTunes library folder (normally <User>/Music/iTunes) for files of the form *.tmp. You should be able to find something...
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I do have that file! What do I do next?
I should probably explain. I have an Itunes library.itl file but no tmp. files... Still can't find any previous itunes library files 😟
Did you use spotlight to search? (I'm assuming you have a Mac as given above despite this thread being in the Windows forum). How long have you used iTunes on this computer? Is there a backup to your library, perhaps an only copy of it on a machine you've "retired". Is the media present in the media folder? (Yes, you've answered that earlier.) If so then the media files should have absorbed all the tag changes that you made and reimporting the media into a new library might not be a complete disaster, though playlists, playcounts, ratings etc. would be irretrievably lost.
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Music has completely disappeared from ITunes library! Please Help!!
