Q: After Drive Replacement, iTunes Points To Wrong Folder Even After Adjusting Settings
I moved my music to a new hard drive. I then adjusted settings within iTunes to "point" to the folder on the new drive. The folder name is identical as are all the files within it. I did this a few months back and had no issues once iTunes "located" my files. All files played, playlists remained intact. This time however only a small portion of my files successfully "located" and the remaining 75% are unplayable. When "shown in finder", the unplayable tracks point to a completely random folder within my mail folder of obviously non-music files. I've been searching for weeks how to fix this to no avail. I definitely do not want to lose my playlists, play counts, etc. so starting from scratch with iTunes is not an option for me. Please advise how to fix this very odd issue!
iMac 3.4 Ghz i7
OSX 10.8.5
iTunes 12.0.1.26 (just updated)
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Posted on Jan 15, 2015 11:49 PM
Hello - thank you for your response. Unfortunately since my original drive died, all I could do was move the files from my backup drive (music files only, not the iTunes library info) to the replacement drive. As I mentioned, the same situation has occurred before with a dead drive and inability to move the library files and I have not had issues. Please help me understand how to repair my playlists and library given that access to the original library file is not possible
Thanks!
Posted on Jan 25, 2015 10:27 PM
