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I Tunes Library question
Litchick
19-12-2009
I apologise for gatecrashing this forum (just an Ents girl usually) but I am after some advice from those who know better than me.

Full story is this:

Had my itunes library on a work laptop. When I left that job I copied the whole library onto a portable hard disc drive. This week I have transfered that to my new netbook. Most of that has been fine but some items only appear to be there on the 'surface.' For example a downloaded series of Season 6 Spooks looks as though it is there but actually there is no file with the picture/file name. (I have checked on both the portable hard drive and the netbook and these items are missing from both).

Has anybody out there got any clue how this has happened or if there is anything I can do about it?

I would be grateful for any advice at all.

LC
jkain
20-12-2009
I don't mean to ask a dumb question here, but when you copied it over you do mean you copied the actual music and movie files, and not just the library data?. I always found when moving to a new machine (or windows install) the best way was to transfer the music to a folder on the new machine, then 'add folder to library' in itunes and let it rebuild your music library.
player1
21-12-2009
Originally Posted by jkain:
“I don't mean to ask a dumb question here, but when you copied it over you do mean you copied the actual music and movie files, and not just the library data?. I always found when moving to a new machine (or windows install) the best way was to transfer the music to a folder on the new machine, then 'add folder to library' in itunes and let it rebuild your music library.”

Which will mean you loose all your ratings / playcounts etc unless you carefully transfer the itl/xml library files too
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