Created a playlist/folder called Pop which is now...lost!
I can access the music all right but I just can't find the folder in menu (on the left side)
I must have drag/drop it into another folder but I just can't find it (very large music library)
Any help ?
Thx
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Use the undo feature in the menu.
Not sure I understand how the Undo will help me find a particular folder in IT ?
What am I supposed to undo ?
You said you might have dragged it into another folder.
Most likely but I just cannot locate which folder it's in
and since it was done a while back
undo will not undo anything
Is there a way to search where a folder would be located in the playlists ?
yes i think so but I can't locate it
Locate a song that should be in the playlist. Right/control click on it and use the context item Show in Playlist > Pop. This should reveal the playlist with the song selected. If Pop isn't one of the playlists shown then you must have deleted it in error.
tt2
Not quite solved yet
Here's the thing
In my IT folder (IT/ITMusic/Music)
there are a lot of folders that used to make up my POP playlist folder
but they don't appear as folders anymore since I must have deleted the that particular playlist folder
I'm trying to re-create the playlist folder and put in it all the individual folders that were created before and that still exist on my HD
For instance, in the Eric Clapton folder on my computer, I have 8 albums
but I can't seem to find a way to import the whole folder
In fact I can't import any folder at all. I have to import individual songs
Add to the library just doesn't do anything
Any idea ?
thx
File > Add to Library > {Select folder} > Open should add a folder and all of its subfolders. Alternatively drag and drop. If your folders represent playlists then make a new playlist in iTunes and drag the folder to the playlist to add all of the tracks that are in it. If you don't want iTunes moving files around when they are added to the library then under iTunes > Preferences > Advanced turn off the option to Keep iTunes Media folder organized.
When did these playlists go missing? See Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash for a method to roll back to an earlier version of your library.
tt2
By opening a previous library I was able to find the POP folder with all the playlists intact (except the one I added since last July) but at least most of them are there 🙂
Many, many thanks
oups...too fast
Folders are there but IT can't locate the content
Thing is now all my Library can't find any songs ?
here is a path:
file:///Users/myname/Music/iTunes/Previous iTunes Libraries/iTunes Media/Alan Silvestri/Stuart Little 2/01 Breakfast Talk _ Food For Snowbell.mp3
Where is that file really? Ideally, having located a suitable library file, you would normally copy this back up to the main iTunes folder, rename is as iTunes Library.itl and reconnect with option-start-iTunes. That should get rid of the additional Previous iTunes Libraries folder shown in your path above. In a modern well formed library I'd expect the actual location to be file:///Users/<User>/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Alan Silvestri/Stuart Little 2/01 Breakfast Talk _ Food For Snowbell.mp3
tt2
You're right I had missed the part about putting the Previous Library in the actual IT Folder
Now that's done and all is fine
thx again
You're welcome. 🙂
tt2
Can't locate an Itunes Playlist
