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iTunes Emergency!
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OK. I have a powerbook G4 and an external 160gig firewire Lacie hard drive. I have about 72 gigs of music. I decided to move my music over onto my external hard drive and was told the easiest way to do this was by changing the music library folder to one on the external and clicking "consolidate library" and wait for it to copy over all the songs. Everything seemed fine, if I changed the name of the local library, itunes would pick the songs from lacie. If the music folder from the local drive was trashed, it still looked for lacie's music. I trashed the music from the local drive, thinking that itunes would understand that lacie had all the music. Now when I launch iTunes, the window is small (not my preference), has all the default playlists, and there is no music!
The music folder exists on the Lacie and iTunes is being told where the music is, but the music is not showing up. I also believe that my four-years worth of playlists have gone down the drain!
HELP!
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Yes, your playlists are gone, AFAIK. They work by tracking files on a drive. If you move them to an external drive, you're actually *deleting* the original files after copying them over, so they're gone as far as iTunes is concerned.
Once it's copied over, you have to re-add the music to iTunes by dragging it into the Library.
I'm afraid the playlists will have to be reconstructed, unless they're intelligent playlists.
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I'm currently running Data Rescue II in hopes that I can retrieve at least something.
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Okay. Data Rescue just recovered 16 iTunes Library files, 9 of which are .xml, the rest are iTunes Music Library Files
the file name goes as "iTunes Music Library-000##.xml"
or "iTunes Music Library-000##"
the numbers rage from 2 to 16
what can I do with these recovered files, where can I put them to restore my playlists?
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For the record, if you want to move your library without breaking anything, do it while iTunes is open. That way it knows where the files went.
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I did move them whilst itunes was open.
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i gotta ask this...
72 gigs? are these aif files?? or mp3s (or something)...
just curious, i've seen some large libraries, but 72 gigs... 
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Move it while iTunes is open!?? Er, no.
Just copy the whole library to wherever you want, and delete the original if needed. iTunes will freak out the next startup and ask you where the library has gone (and send you to a dialog to find it again). You choose the new location, and ta da, there it is.
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Ill try that next time. Hopefully i can just get my playlists back. UGH.
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Originally Posted by fisherKing
i gotta ask this...
72 gigs? are these aif files?? or mp3s (or something)...
just curious, i've seen some large libraries, but 72 gigs...
i have close to 11,000 mp3s
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Originally Posted by air
i have close to 11,000 mp3s
let's see, at a dollar per song... 
anyway, u could also keep an alias of the library in the itunes folder on the mac (altho tooki's idea will work too)
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Did you move the entire music folder, including the iTunes library files, or just move the MP3s alone?
If you moved everything you could copy the entire folder back to its original location and iTunes should pick it up as it was before.
The right process for this, when starting from the beginning, is not to consolidate the library but rather just move the folder from the Advanced panel in iTunes preferences. iTunes does the copying work for you as long as you have the option to keep the music folder organized enabled.
It's detailed here. Doing that preserves all the playlists.
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In the future, consider Dotmac. With Backup, you can save your iTunes playlists. Found it to be very helpful.
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Originally Posted by fisherKing
let's see, at a dollar per song...
anyway, u could also keep an alias of the library in the itunes folder on the mac (altho tooki's idea will work too)
That's about what I have. No huge surprise... I've been buying CDs for the past 20 years. I ripped them. It took a while.
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Originally Posted by CatOne
That's about what I have. No huge surprise... I've been buying CDs for the past 20 years. I ripped them. It took a while.
well, your an inspiration.
am getting a new 160gig fw drive next week, and am going to transfer my cd library...
(thank god for the cddb!)
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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