Lost 90% of the music on Windows Media Player

Yesterday (January 4, 2014), I could download a CD on my laptop - something I've done 1000 times.  The next time I open Windows Media Player, all my music was gone.  I was able to recover a portion of the value of the CD a lot back music - because, the music is always on display as being somewhere in the computer - I saw all the titles I had on WMP in my folder "Music" (in the area of libraries - where you choose if you want that your documents, photos, etc.) and I was able to get some of them to go immediately to WMP , but others wouldn't move - I would like to try to get 'em to move as the others, but for many of them a box pops up and read ' cannot move - this file is already opened in another place "(or something like that) and then I had two things to choose click on -"try again"or"Cancel ".  Anyone else had this happen?  And is anyone know how I can get back my music on my WMP?

Thank you

Kmanthie

Hello

I suggest to remove the existing library database and then download Windows Media Player for the re - build as follows.

On the Start Menu, open the control panel and open Folder Options.  Click on the view tab, check the radio button titled "Show hidden files, folders and drives" and out the box "Hide extensions of known file types".  Click on apply to save these changes.

Click on the Menu start, open the computer, double-click Local disk C, double-click users, double-click on 'your username', double-click AppData, double-click Local, double-click Microsoft , and double-click Media Player.  Delete all files with the extension .wmdb - do not delete all the files.

Close all open windows.

Once again, on the Start Menu, open the control panel and open Folder Options.  Click on the view tab, fill in the box labeled "do not show hidden files folders and drives" and enter a check mark in the box "Hide extensions of known file types".  Click on apply to save these changes.

Now, open Windows Media Player and it will start to rebuild the index of the library - the time required depends on the size of your media collection, but let him finish.

Kind regards

DP - K

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