OLD HOME MOVIES GONE!

It seems that the current version of iTunes (12.5.1.21) no longer accepts my old home movies and has completely deleted them from my library. They previously showed up in Itunes with a video icon alongside - but no sign of them there, or anywhere else I looked either in the Itunes listing or the library file on my external hard drive.

Unless anyone can come up with an acceptable reason for this, and a simple way to recover them, this is the last straw and the final bullet in Apple's coffin. How dare they just delete my stuff?

iPad Air, iOS 8.2

Posted on Sep 23, 2016 7:29 AM

22 replies

John Mcewen Author

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Sep 25, 2016 3:17 AM in response to ChrisJ4203

Very many thanks - I was aware of that but checked it again as you had kindly pointed it out. However only one "real" movie in there that I had downloaded from Itunes or elsewhere. Otherwise it was empty - no home movies unfortunately.

ChrisJ4203

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Sep 25, 2016 7:04 AM in response to John Mcewen

I checked my iTunes and all of my home movies are still existing in my library. The funny thing is, that none of them exist in the Home Movie folder, they are in another folder, the one that I added them to iTunes from. You may want to check if you know a file name, or date section, because it is very possible they still exist on your system, but are in another folder. Mine did not move at all, and I've been using every version of iTunes for a while. I've even removed and reinstalled a couple of times, since I end up having to use the one for older video cards. Check your Video library in Windows and see if they are there.

turingtest2

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Sep 25, 2016 7:10 AM in response to ChrisJ4203

It is possible this is related to another bug. If I recall correctly some builds of iTunes haven't moved video files around correctly on import or after a media kind change and it has required turning the Keep organized option off and then back on again to move them, if they were inside the media folder to start with. Consolidating from outside should always put them in the correct place.

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John Mcewen Author

Level 1

13 points

Sep 23, 2016 10:45 AM in response to turingtest2

Thanks - but I had already tried that and nothing to see except the videos I purchased in the Itunes store!

John Mcewen Author

Level 1

13 points

Sep 24, 2016 3:26 AM in response to turingtest2

Sorry - but the Home Movies file is no longer in the iTunes Media folder either - I had checked all that.

But thanks.

John Mcewen Author

Level 1

13 points

Sep 24, 2016 8:30 AM in response to turingtest2

Very good to know - thanks

ChrisJ4203

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Sep 24, 2016 11:11 AM in response to turingtest2

Okay, I see now, it is in the Sidebar. I was not looking there. The copy of iTunes I have on my laptop does not have any movies, so I cannot check, but as I said earlier, I'll check my desktop later.

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OLD HOME MOVIES GONE!