Glenn Caton

Q: How can I restore my iTunes music collection to a new external drive from iCloud after the drive they were on crashed?

The external drive where my iTunes library crashed. Fortunately, all were backed up to iCloud! What I would like to do is to restore them all to a new external drive where all my audio lives

 

Does anyone know a batch process to accomplish this?

 

I have succeeded in restoring a number of tunes to the new library by clicking on the desired tune in the library (which was saved by the library database residing on the computer's drive) to which iTunes gives me a dialog box telling me it can not locate the tune and would I like to. If I click on "cancel" the tune is streamed from iCloud and the download symbol is shown on the playlist. Clicking it downloads the tune to the library on the new drive. Doing this for the tens of thousands of tunes will take quite a while, there must be a batch process!

Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Sep 17, 2016 9:12 PM