iTunes not finding files in the same directory

I have about 350 missing files in my library of thousands of songs iTunes music - I do not know how iTunes lost track of them, because I did not move, but I replace the hard drive that my library had a few weeks back.  Apart from that, if I find a single file to an album, iTunes then asks the standard question, "would you live iTunes to use the < name of track > location to find other missing files in your library?  When I click on the "Search files" button in this dialog box, iTunes allows you to easily search the rest of the album that was missing.  However, he is not doing this and now impossible to find one of my other missing music.  I'll have to match every file missing one at a time, which will be incredibly tedious.

Is this a bug introduced in a recent version of iTunes?  This feature is used to work properly, although I have not used in the better part of a year now.  My PC is running Windows 10 and iTunes v12.4.1.6.  I've probably will eventually present it as a question to the support of iTunes, but wanted to see if another person had this same experience first and might know what is happening.

Thank you!

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 under Edition folder > Preferences > advanced

  2. The location of a sample of missing follow indicated under Get Info > file > location that begins file://localhost/

  • The real path to the file which you gave 2 details

  • TT2

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