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• Help me get back my iTune library

  Hello

  I lost my mac mini 2009 with my library of more than 3,000 titles iTune.

  For now, I have an old Dell with Windows 7 and iTunes.

  I still have access to my iTune and iTune Store account, but I have nothing left to synchronize.

  My external drive backup are all in the time Capsule and I'm now trying to recover my iTunes library on a PC...

  I allowed Dell to access iTune but I can't import the content of my old iTune iPhone 3GS on the Dell library...

  All I see are my recent purchase... a very small part of the library.

  My music is all about the 3Gs, how can I import it on the DEll PC?

  Well. can you help me please... I own this music and paid for it!

  Kind regards

  Simon

  An iPhone is not a source of backup for the music.

  You can restore all your music purchased on iTunes, but it seems that if you know that and you want to restore the rest.

  The way to do that is to replace your Mac Mini with a new Mac, then use Time Machine as well as the Migration Wizard to restore your last backup Mac Mini for this new machine.

• Setting up an external hard drive to the iTunes library

  Hello world

  Drive hard internal 1 TB of my iMac is near capacity because of my growing iTunes library of music and movies.

  To revitalize the iMac that I am eager to free up space, install a new SSD and examine the possibility of moving my iTunes library on an external hard drive to save storage space.

  Here are some questions that I came with:

  1. Is it pretty easy to transfer my existing library on a hard drive external?
  2. It would be a stable and preferred solution?
  3. When you import, choose 'Copy to iTunes' preferences?
  4. Can I use my 2 TB Apple AirPort Extreme as the new destination of my iTunes library?
  5. Can I use Time Machine to back up the iTunes library on the new drive external hard or if it uses the spare wheel on the AirPort Extreme?

  Thanks in advance!

  1. Yes. Drag the entire library on the external drive, launch iTunes with down option and select it.

  2. Yes, but see #4.

  3. allow the same all the other parameters.

  4 n ° your working data and backups must be on separate drives in case one of them goes down.

  5. Yes, if he is on a drive to Mac OS extended (journaled) format. Time Machine doesn't backup disk inside a Time Capsule.

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• How to use on another mac iTunes library stored on external hard drive - on cable network

  I recently bought a new iMac. I used a time machine to the top to move all files my new computer. I still want to use my old iMac as a media server for my network. The main iTunes library is located on an external hard drive connected to my old iMac.  I don't want to move all these files to my new iMac media because they are large enough.

  I sync all my families phones/ipads on this new iMac and of course difficulties with finding them their music/songs etc. When I contacted apple support, they had me move my iTunes library to my new iMac. Now phones are able to properly synchronize and pull up all of their media. However I just duplicated 200 GB of media files. I was able to access the external hard drive to move the media. Is there a way to have my new iMac external hard accessing multimedia disc in iTunes for play and synchronize multimedia files without storing this library on my new computer?

  Why not simply unplug the external hard drive and move it? And I don't think so. You can use home sharing to access the library and the Wi - Fi sync iTunes by following the instructions in the link.

  Share your iTunes library on your home network - Apple Support

  Synchronize your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with iTunes - Apple Support

  Best regards

  Austin

• iMac with 2 users and shared iTunes library

  I want to give my wife access to my iMac, since the death a few days ago from his netbook.

  What should I do - apart from the creation of a new account - we can use the same iTunes library, which is on an external hard drive?

  She has her own iPad and so own Apple ID.

  Some additional information:

  1 there is no iTunes purchases which he shared library ' in bulk ' on the hard drive.

  2. we don't use iTunes game

  3. sharing app would be nice, but she won't need to almost nothing outside of Safari, office and iTunes

  4. for the office, I have a 365 subscription, which she can also use

  5. There is an Apple TV involved, that we use to stream iTunes and is connected to my Apple ID for the moment. Is this a problem?

  6 sync is useless for its iPad, sync to my iPhone should still work with my account

  Thank you!

  Launch iTunes with down option, and then choose this library. You may need to change permissions on it, or select the volume in the Finder, choose get the information in the file menu and check the box for ignore ownership or permissions to this topic.

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• What is the best way to back up your iTunes library and playlists

  I'm looking for the best way back up my library iTunes and Playlists.  I will probably support him until a spare flash drive.  Is there a step by step procedure out there that I can follow to make the back upward?

  Drag the iTunes folder in your folder music on the backup drive.

• I backed up my iTunes library and then wiped and restored my computer the moved my library back and reconnected to iTunes. Now iTunes does not show that the music is on my hard drive. He only sees in the clouds. How iTunes to make my paper copies

  I had to restore my computer. I backed up iTunes to an external restore then imported my library back to the original location in my home folder. Then I restarted iTunes with the option key and reopened my library. iTunes is not recognizing that the original music files are on my computer, he thinks that they are alone in the cloud. How iTunes to see the files on my computer?

  You back up and restore this way?

  Moving a library: quick response if you use preferences by default iTunes settings: copy the folder integer iTunes (and to ensure that all of its subfolders and files) intact at the other disk, hold down the option/ALT key to start iTunes and on request to select a library select iTunes Library.itl file in the copied folder.

• I've recently updated 12.3.3.17 on w10, after what all my music was missing from my iTunes library.  I have a cloud next to everything and my rips of CD disappeared.  This music is always in the iTunes media folder.  How can I get that back in iTunes?

  I've recently updated 12.3.3.17 on W10, after what all my music was missing from my iTunes library.  I have a cloud beside my purchases and my rips of CD disappeared.  All the music is always in the iTunes media folder, but I can't seem to find my iTunes library.  Y at - it an easy fix?  Thank you.

  See tips to the user of turingtest2 empty/corrupted after upgrade/crash iTunes library.

• How to get back my time iTunes library contents machine?

  iMac 27 inch end 2011 running yosemite 10.10.5, 2.7 GHz Core i5, 8 GB of memory

  I tried to upgrade to el Capitan. There was a problem my computer refused to restart and I had to restore it with the help of apple. My iTunes library is now very easy with only the items I bought directly from iTunes visible.

  I want to give what it was before the incident using time machine, but I can't figure out how to do this.

  I've entered time gone to 5 December 2015 and the machine but cannot find the iTunes library. I find several documents with iTunes library itl or similar, but these just seem to be documents. How do I return what was in the library of ahead?

  What operating system are you currently using?

  It may vary a little from one version to the other.

  https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=uM_qKJrHh_o

  If it does not work... tell me why it didn't... at what point he failed.

• changed location and went my whole iTunes library

  I have so far kept two accounts of mac. One in the United Kingdom and Australia.

  The Australian account (iTunes) was the oldest account and it contained almost all my music and movies.

  Recently, I had problems with a lost credit card and funky became account (not in a sense of the music - like the bad funky).

  Support Mac helped me sort out the account number, but I had to change my address details and account billing in the United Kingdom.

  I just tried to log in to my Australian iTunes and found that all my music is gone!

  What should do?

  Realize that what you were doing could be in violation of the intended use of Apple for the iTunes Store, which is actually a single bank by user.  An iTunes Store in a country is intended for use only by residents of this country and only while they are in the country. To use the iTunes Store in a country, you must use a credit card (or other type of card so acceptable in a country) published in this country, charged to an address in this country and also be physically present in this country when you use the store.

  For example, "the iTunes Service is available only in the United States, its territories and possessions. You agree not to use or attempt to use the Service from iTunes outside these locations. Apple may use technologies to verify your respect. "- http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#SERVICE

  Entering a map of the United Kingdom for the Australian store should not be possible, and this statement is inconsistent.  I don't know why the music should have disappeared from the Australian account. If it was a question to be taken trying to access the British then I expect that you will receive a connection error message. If they had wiped the account because of the violation, then you should not be able to connect.

  What you need to do, is use your backup of the files that you hold because re - download is a convenience but not a substitute for maintaining and independent. Apple recommends... "back up your iTunes library." (https://support.apple.com/HT201272). http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/terms.html - "some eligible content iTunes that you already have will be may not be available for a later download at a time, and Apple will have no liability to you in this case.» As you may not be able to subsequently download some eligible content previously acquired iTunes, once you download a piece of eligible content to iTunes, it is your responsibility not to lose, destroy or damage it, and you may want to back up. »

  If you want you can try to contact the support again about this but I don't know the exact details of your situation and if you are riding along Apple restrictions on the use of accounts in other countries, you are in a risky situation.  Do not go on Apple about this though, since these restrictions have to do with the media the regional restrictions of license holders.  How it is supposed to work, it is if you Live in Australia you can buy from their store. If you move to the United Kingdom you switch your account (not create another) to the UK store with the help of a map of the United Kingdom.  You can take any item bought in Australia with you on your computer, but you will not be able to access it again to re - download.

• After I save my itunes library

  I want to know if I got back to the top of my itunes library on an external hard drive I can remove my itunes on my computer movies to save space on this subject? It is my friends computer and I don't want to take up space. And then I still see them on my apple TV if the movies are not on my internal hard drive?

  I am new to this and I wanted to know if my apple tv can stream after I deleted movies from my computer? I have no idea how it works, as far as I know I need to get back to the top of my purchases...

  You might be able to broadcast from the store directly on your Apple TV, assuming that they remain in the store and you don't move country: download your past - purchases Support Apple

  For the stream to your computer, that itunes from your computer will need to know where they are for example the external drive connected and movies added to iTunes (or copied to disc and the computer iTunes) - they do have to be on the hard disk, but iTunes will need access to them to disseminate the

• duplicated on two drives iTunes library HELP

  I have an iTunes library on an external drive, the titles are listed on iTunes, but you must have the USB device to listen to music... I copied the contents of an another USB so that if one fails, it can play each other, file structure is exactly the same but when I select a title he cannot find the song... If I click on search and access the same file on the duplicate key then plays and offers to look for other missing files... It's as if they are the same but it will automatically be a link to a key and have to go to the path again so he can play on the other... Any ideas?

  I was hoping I could just play it where ever I connected - is - it possible?

  Thank you

  Brad

  Both devices get the same drive letter to Windows?  If this isn't the case, you can use the Windows disk management service to associate the same drive letter to each device in turn.

  Thumb drives standard USB are not really reliable enough to be used for long-term storage and are of course subject to loss / theft / damage.  Taking also into account the fact that most current thumb drives (128 GB?) will not hold more than one library of size average, a better bet is to use a USB disk drive * for your library (with a second to support).  Also take a look at the user tip of Turningtest2 on do a split portable library that describes the structure of your iTunes library so that it is independent and can be stored on any appropriate device.  According to your description, you have your database iTunes on your PC's internal drive and media on external devices; It is, as you have discovered, more difficult to manage and also less likely to be regularly backed up and replicated on another computer, see Council of tt2 on your iTunes backup for Windows with SyncToy library for a recommended method to make and maintain backups.

  * My Installer use a disc of 2 TB USB 3.0 for my library 'master', with a similar on my desktop system disk, and a disc of 2 TB portable for use as a backup and also periodically update the Office of library system from that master.  I have a secondary home with another 2 TB drive - so altogether I have four copies of my library, which the three "secondary" are rarely more than a week that is not synchronized with the master, just to complicate things, I have two additional iTunes (completely different content main) libraries, using a two other drives of 2 TB and two 1 TB drives.

• Lost iTunes Library - CAN not rebuild. Help!

  Tonight I thought I had lost most of my iTunes library. It turns out that I didn't have that I can find the content itself, but iTunes can't see it. So, I followed the instructions here to try to resolve the problem: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203225

  It did not work. I found myself with some of my content. Most of my music, none of my TV or movies (and no, these were not bought through iTunes)

  I then tried to rebuild my iTunes Library with these instructions: http://www.mcelhearn.com/how-to-rebuild-your-itunes-library/

  It did not work also.

  So, I was wondering if I should completely remove iTunes from my iMac, the re - install it if this could work?

  Although I had to remove, and then reinstall iTunes, I still have all my content back inside however get. All content currently, lives on an external hard drive and so I do not know what to do really. I thought maybe I could drag and drop content more but there is more content on this external drive to the room, I have available on my iMac.

  Any ideas?

  The first method rebuilt your library by using a backup file created whenever you updated the iTunes application. If you have videos in there at the time that they should appear even if only as broken links. If they had not been entered and then realize that it uses an older version of your library file.  The library file doesn't say what media he recorded for you and where, not an inventory of your media files to iTunes.

  The second method allows to rebuild the library based on a version in alternate formats of the library file. It is regularly updated and if, during your previous attempts it updated the .xml to match the library at this stage, then that is clearly not good.

  I do not reinstall the application. If you are desperate then simply slide the media on the outside back into the existing library.  Designated as the place to store media in iTunes > Preferences > advanced is the external drive then he should leave the files there.

  You have the entire library on the external hard drive, or just media? Be aware if you have all of your external library must be on before launching iTunes.

• Why don't the addition of metadata to be added manually in the iTunes library song change metadata in Windows Explorer and anywhere else?

  Adding metadata to a song in the iTunes library has no effect anywhere else (as in Windows Explorer or the Groove music).

  I would like to know if I have disabled this in error or if it is not guaranteed to all visitors.

  Where it is not provided to customers, I would like to know how iTunes stores this metadata and whether it can be automatically sent to the library of Windows.

  Thank you.

  A reason of changes committed to iTunes cannot be is covered in the tip of the user, fix the iTunes for Windows security permissions but iTunes usually returns to the original data if you probably don't see this particular problem. The other possibility is of several tags.

  Several tags (Mp3 files only)

  The ID3 specification allows files to have several tags in different versions and languages, but iTunes does not work properly with simple tags. When multiple tags are present it can sometimes do not apply updates to the tag that reads back (probably update one of the others in the file) and it is also possible that the iPod and iTunes may have different rules for the tag that they give priority to. This could lead to situations where everything is properly organized in iTunes, but then inexplicably collapses on an iPod, or tracks that display different information in Windows Explorer or another media player. There are tags 3rd party editors that allow to manipulate several tags, but I don't have a casual recommendation. A workaround in iTunes is to use the context menu convert the ID3 Tags... > None a few times to remove all the labels, then convert ID3 Tags... > v2.3 to build a cool tag with information still held in the iTunes database. I've read in the past that iTunes is not completely compatible with the specification v2.4, although this may be the case, support is more however for v2.3 is widespread, then I would say using v2.3 to v2.4. All embedded work will be deleted so it must be replaced if wanted. For Windows users running a script named CreateFolderArt before and after the cleaning process tag should handle this.

  Note that some data, for example the sides and the counties of game, is only stored in the database internal iTunes and not surrounded by tags.

  TT2

• Using an external hard drive to my itunes library?

  Here's my problem...  I just got a new laptop with a disc ssd 256 GB, my itunes library is well over 150 GB.  I don't want to take the majority of my hard drive to my itunes library, so I want to keep the library on my external hard drive, music via itunes on my laptop without copying it to the wire to the laptop HD.

  Is this possible?

  I went into preferences / advanced and changed the itunes media folder location to the file path for the external HD and it did not work.

  Any other suggestions?

  Thank you

  -C

  Launch iTunes with the SHIFT key is pressed, choose Create Library and specify a location on the external hard drive.

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