[centerchannel68]

Okay, so before I took apart my G4 tower and sold it off, I backed up my entire user folder.... including my entire iTunes folder.

So now I have a 24" iMac, and I dragged my iTunes folder to the hard drive, and all my music is now available through itunes, but my playlists are all gone. Anyway to retrieve them?

[Goldfinger]

Normally they hould be there. Were all the music files located in the iTunes folder in the Music folder in your home directory ? Or somewhere else like another hard drive ?
Is iTunes the exact same version on your iMac as it was on the G4 ?

[richwig83]

hasnt this something to do with the library file??? have u still got the original one that was in the itunes folder when u backed it up?

[bbales]

Ihad the same situation, when I had to replace the hard drive in my PB. Unfortunately, I updated itunes, then have had much difficulty in getting the music back. Finally have the music back, but the playlists seem to be gone forever.

[centerchannel68]

No, different versions of itunes, since this is a brand new computer.

[Goldfinger]

That's probably your issue. Are you sure that the iTunes Library and iTunes Music Library.xml files are present ?

[centerchannel68]

I'll try copying them over again.