Restoring iTunes + Song of the missing links

I moved my iTunes from one PC to the other folder. The entire folder. On the new PC, after you install iTunes, I pressed shift and clicked on the icon to choose the correct iTunes library file.  Everything is listed, however, about 2 500 songs are not related.  I have to double-click on each song and re-pointer to the location of the appropriate folder.  It's 2 500 more 10 000.  Of course, if it's an album, once I found the first song, he will ask me to find the rest.  But it's album by album.  Always takes me hours to restore everything.

It happened the last time I tried this, years ago.  I was hoping that Apple would have improved the import feature.  Why random songs that are not related?  What can I do to prevent it happening again?

Second, is there a quick fix to sweep and relink all the songs of reverie?  Or do I still sit there and manually connect 2 500 songs?

Thank you.

See make a library of portable split to the bottom. With your library in the correct form, it can be moved without any problem.

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, but this time, click on search and browse the lost track. He peut then offers to 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.

PS. the forum plays up for the moment. Copy and paste this link in your address bar to get the script: http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/scripts.asp#FindTracks

TT2

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