[PhotoBug]

Why? and how can i fix this. its all on my 250GB WD external, the songs and data show but itunes wont see it, or anything for that matter.

[triskelboy]

iTunes normally stores all its music in the iTunes Music folder in your root directory. It sounds like iTunes was configured (Edit/Preferences/Advanced/General to go to that location in the past, but maybe your prefs file was corrupted causing iTunes to forget thats where you store your music. Try redirecting iTunes to the iTunes Music folder on your external hard drive and seeing if that helps?

[PhotoBug]

I did that a few times. i even unpluged it and started it back up again.

[triskelboy]

That sucks. Have you tried Files/Add to Library and just pointing to the folder where all your music is? Its a brute force approach but should at least get them in.

If it still doesn't work, try renaming the file "iTunes Library" to "iTunes Libarary Old" and next time you open iTunes, it will regenerate it. You will lose all your ratings, but if that file is badly corrupted you may have no choice unless you have a backup of it you could try? There's also a file called com.apple.iTunes.plist file you could delete and see if that helps. Its the iTunes preference file, and you will find it in the Preferences folder of your home folders Library.

[Sherman Homan]

Have you tried holding down the 'option' key and launch iTunes? You will be greated with a dialog box that will allow you to navigate to your external hard drive's library.

[PhotoBug]

Hmmm, ok ya i will try those, Thanks. i will let you know what happens.

[PhotoBug]

The Option Key worked thanks