For the sake of my sanity, please help

Hi all, I desperately need your help, iTunes keeps pushing me closer to the edge!

I store all my music on an external drive due to restrictions of space on my drive C. I also had iTunes on my external hard drive and everything worked fine.

For some reason, the last updated itself installed on my C drive with a subsequent loss of most of my music (10 k titles) other than downloads.

When I try to listen to a song, I get the usual message telling me that the file is not found and I want to locate. I click on 'locate' and go to my external drive, open my file music, open the album and click on the track. Next, I get the usual message asking me if I want to locate the rest of music lack of my library.

After clicking 'find files' it within five seconds and he tells me it cannot locate all 9 960 other missing files. How I am torn between cry or do something violent to my pc.

I'm sure that the solution is probably pretty simple, but I'm scared, I'm out of ideas.

If you can give me any help, I would appreciate more, more. Thank you xxx

The "missing file" error occurs if the file is no longer where iTunes is expected to find. Causes possible is that you or a third-party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, one of its parents, or the reader, records it feeds has been a change in the letter of the drive or you have moved a non-portable library to a different path (see make a split cell library for more details). It is also possible that iTunes has changed from waiting for the files in the presentation of pre-iTunes 9 post-iTunes 9 layout, or vice versa, and so looking for a bit in the wrong place.

Select a track with an exclamation point, use Ctrl - I to get the information, and then click No when asked to try to locate the track. Look under the file tab for the location that iTunes thinks that the file should be. Now look around your hard drive. I hope you can locate the track in question. If a part of your library has just been moved, renamed a folder or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse actions. If the difference between the two railroads is an additional music directory in a path, then it is a problem of layout. I can explain more if this is the case. If everything is where it is supposed to be trying to fix the security permissions for iTunes for Windows.

In some cases, iTunes may be able to repair itself if you go through the same steps with Get Info, or during playback of a track, but this time, click on search and browse the lost track. Then, it can offer try to automatically correct the other broken links. Although he said something like 'use the same location' I think he expects to find titles in the same provision, artist / album, they were previously, with a systematic change to the path.

If another application like Windows Media Player has moved/renamed files, or the library was moved from OS X to Windows, then chances are that subtle differences in naming strategies it will be difficult to restore the media to the precise path that iTunes is pregnant. In this case, as long as the missing files somewhere, you should be able to use my FindTracks script for reconnecting to iTunes. See this post for an explanation of how it works.

If you want me to try to provide specific advice, please post back the following details:

  1. The location of the media file under Edit > Preferences > advanced
  2. The location of a sample of missing follow indicated under Get Info > file > location which begins file://localhost/
  3. The real path to the file which you gave 2 details

TT2

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