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Jan 26, 2014 8:26 PM in response to MixedUpby Limnos,Are you seeing nothing when opening iTunes? A new library.? If that is the case, start iTunes with the option/alt key depressed and guide it to your library on the other drive.
If you really mean redirecting it to the media folder location then it seems you already know how to do that in preferences. Note that redirecting your media folder location is not the same as relocating a library.
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Jan 26, 2014 8:32 PM in response to Limnosby MixedUp,thanks - understand
the trouble I have is (lets say I use the " option/alt key depressed") method, that whilst I can see the directory with everything in on my 2nd disk drive, there is no actual non-grey'ed out file to click on. Which implies (I think) there is no *.photolibrary there. So it's almost like this file went missing or something?
Any advice is this is the case?
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Jan 27, 2014 5:42 AM in response to MixedUpby Limnos,I am not fully understanding the problem here. Are you seeing anything when you open iTunes, yes or no? Some people say they have a custom media file location but they really mean they have a custom library location and there is a big difference. You can set cutom media location in iTunes preferences but don't do that unless you are certain that is what you want/need. If you have lost connection to your library it won't help and it will make more a mess of things. It may help if you learn a bit on how iTunes works and maybe you can figure out yourself what you need:
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
Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391
What's all this about a .photolibrary??? I have never heard of that in connection with iTunes.
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Jan 27, 2014 9:15 AM in response to Limnosby MixedUp,- had custom media file location
- got reset somehow
- set it back myself
- then can't see any of my music in iTunes
- noted I seems to be no *.photolibrary file at my custom location, but all the media itself seems to be there
- perhaps question is how to reconstruct your *.photolibrary file
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Jan 27, 2014 9:36 AM in response to MixedUpby Limnos,Are you posting in the correct forum? This is the iTunes forum. .photolibrary is used with iPhoto.
Changing media file location will not change how or what iTunes displays for what you have already added to iTunes. It only affects where things will be put in the future. Anything already added should still display, unless what you actually lost track of was your library. Look around your various drives. Do you see a file called library.itl anywhere? That's the file to which you need to direct iTunes when starting with the option key held down.
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Jan 27, 2014 1:08 PM in response to Limnosby MixedUp,doh - sorry must have looked in the wrong folder when trying to guess what was going wrong, so ignore my *.photolibrary words.... So in summary (without the guessing)
- had custom media file location (everything working fine for months)
- got reset somehow (not sure how)
- set it back myself in preferences (pointing to the 2nd HDD)
- then can't see any of my music in iTunes
ok & now when I've gone through the same process again it is now working - doh - sorry about the post then overall - I'm not sure why it didn't work - perhaps after resetting the path in preferences it needed time to pick things up (or perhaps it was just me) - thanks for persisting and following up with me in any case
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Jan 27, 2014 1:37 PM in response to MixedUpby Limnos,If items are on an external drive, the drive must be on and mounted before starting iTunes. Starting the drive after starting iTunes will not get iTunes to look at the drive at that time. Quitting iTunes, connecting the drive, and restarting iTunes will get it to take a look again.