How to recover itunes libarary from timemachine

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How to recover itunes libarary from timemachine

I recently DOWNgraded from Mavericks via sierra to yosemite. Today I realized that the biggest part of my music is gone from my Iphone 5se.

After itunes now only imports a random collection of songs as albums, "recently added" is not working as only a small percentage of songs is showing I created, according to a advice i got here, smart folders with a date stamp as criteria.

Today I wanted to sync my phone and when it was completed 80% of my music was gone!

Also according to a threat here I deleted all songs from the phone and did a complete re-import, with the result that now all custom smart folders are gone from my itune library on my mac as well.

As there seems to be hundreds of threads with this problem here, at macrumors and other sites it seems I'm not alone with this.
As I really can not bother to write codes, and reset half my computer, if I want to do that I can buy a microsoft machine, I just want to go back to yesterday when things where partially better.

However when I go to timemachine > apps>iTunes>restore it tells me that Itunes can't be deleted or modified because its part of the operating system.
To make a long story short, how do I get my songs back??

MacBook Pro, Other OS

Posted on Oct 21, 2016 10:56 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 21, 2016 11:36 AM in response to guido.coza

I recently DOWNgraded from Mavericks via sierra to yosemite.

Mavericks is the lowest OSX you mention. How can you downgrade from it?

The same iTunes version you used on Sierra also works on Mavericks. Presumably you restored your other files too and the iTunes library files should have been part of it.

06/2014 ChrisCA post: Restore iTunes library from Time Machine backup - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6374283?answerId=26104480022#26104480022 Useful tips where restoring to a new drive: http://pondini.org/TM/B6.html --> https://web.archive.org/web/20150511032110/http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6811322?answerId=27599985022#27599985022 Make sure you go back far enough for the version you want. If Time Machine just backed up the "latest" version may be one you do not want.

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guido.coza Author

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Oct 21, 2016 12:15 PM in response to Limnos

Hi Limnos

Firstly thank you for your reply

1) why downgrade, so far I have not found a single feature that would have been a upgrade!!

2) I had to go to a apple specialist to get my mac restored after "up"grading to Sierra fried my battery!

3) They, apple guy, recommended to format timemachine drive, as it put a second partition on my mac which let the mac stuck in the recovery screen.

SO my timemachine is "new" I wanted to go back 1-4 days (another feature I don't see helpfull,RED updates, some work some don't)
I clicked on the Itune app sign in the respective backup and it said something like "cant delete because part of OS"

Really could do with some help here! 😢

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