Itunes Damaged

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Itunes Damaged

I accidentally unplugged my iMac while I had a song playing on Itunes.

When I turned on my computer, Itunes said about the library being damaged & started "importing the itunes XML library".

Stupid me, hit "stop import" because it was taking too long.

After some digging around, I managed to restore an old Itunes library (most recent from June 2014), but I am missing about 800 songs & playlists (accidentally trashed Itunes Genuis & Extras file while the I was trying to restore my old Itunes library to free up space on my iMac).

Is there anyway I can restore my current iTunes library? Should I call Apple Support?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 1, 2015 6:51 PM

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Answer 1

sberman

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Aug 1, 2015 10:27 PM in response to alpiritunes

Two thoughts:

1. Restore your latest computer backup. You do have one from the past day or two (at least), right?

2. You can re-download all your iTunes purchased music. Sign in to iTunes, go to the iTunes Store, and click "Purchased" on the right about halfway down.

You will find a "Not in My Library" tab near the top, and a way to download all songs from there.

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Answer 2

Aug 2, 2015 9:32 AM in response to alpiritunes

Another thought to add to sberman's:

3. If you've got a lot of music that's not purchased from the iTunes Store, there's an applescript to automate the chore of locating all the songs in your iTunes Media folder that are *not* in your iTunes library: https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

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