[Mac User #001]

Hi,

I've started my venture in to using Terminal recently, and found some of TUAW's Terminal Tips to be quite useful. However, when I entered in their most recent tip, found here, I found myself looking at an iTunes library from almost a year ago. None of the applications from my iPod are in my library, nor is any of my newer music, not to mention iTunes now points to many songs, movies, and music videos that no longer exist.

I've tried holding option down on iTunes start-up and selecting a new library from the previous library's folder, but all contain the same thing.

Any help would be immensely appreciated, and now I know to stay away from the Terminal

[CharlesS]

Well, this should undo the command in that link:

defaults delete com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks

If that doesn't work, you can just trash iTunes' preference file, since all the TUAW terminal command does is modify the preferences file anyway.

I have to say, though, that this doesn't sound like the sort of thing that would cause the condition you're describing... the problem could be something else that coincidentally happened around the same time you entered that command.

[Mac User #001]

Well... I don't know much about this all, but I figured iTunes would have to be quit to enter the command, so I did so, and then I started iTunes back up right after the command. So thats a very small window of coincidence.

The command you suggested didn't work. Trashing the preferences made iTunes start up as if it were brand new again, but it still had all of the same music and application losses. What I did was delete everything from iTunes and then point it to a library, and that put everything back to the way it was.

Thanks for the help though.