Q: Music and playlists suddenly gone?
Hello, I opened up my iTunes this morning and found that i only have approx. 100 songs of my 80GB of music. The songs that do appear in my library seem to be in the cloud as there is a cloud download symbol next to them. If I click on "Get Info" for the song, no location displays. I opened iTunes preferences and check the location of my music and it is correct....All of my music is in that location, the files are still on my computer just not in iTunes. Additionally, all of my playlists are gone too. Help!!!
MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.4.10)
Posted on May 4, 2016 7:03 AM
Preferences does not tell iTunes where to look for media, it only tell iTunes where to store media added from that point on.
Start iTunes while holding down the option/alt key and select the iTunes Library.itl file in the iTunes folder (presuming you use default settings). iTunes does not normally lose this location unless you are using a library on a different drive but since you did not mention that at the start I have to presume you are using default configuration.
Posted on May 4, 2016 7:15 AM