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iTunes Library Suddenly Filled with !
chocolate_boy
12-11-2007
Can anyone help me?

My Itunes library on my PC (synced to a 180gig classic) has suddenly lost all its music! Pretty much everything has a ! next to it, and they have all been deleted from my ipod on sync!

I haven't renamed any folders or moved any files, do I really have to go through one by one and rebuild my entire library by hand?!

Or is there a tool which will go through and relink them all again?

Any help GRATEFULLY appreciated!!!
Ravster
12-11-2007
That happened to me today morning, but I just closed iTunes then opened it again and the music was back.
chocolate_boy
12-11-2007
Originally Posted by Ravster:
“That happened to me today morning, but I just closed iTunes then opened it again and the music was back.”

Sadly mine's been like this all weekend.

Any ideas at all? I'm pretty desperate here, if not it's going to mean a full evening or weekend restoring it all
pumazooma
12-11-2007
Right click a track and get info.
That shows you the path where it's looking to find the track.
Maybe it's lost where your music folder is.
That's set in prefs>advanced.
chocolate_boy
13-11-2007
Originally Posted by pumazooma:
“Right click a track and get info.
That shows you the path where it's looking to find the track.
Maybe it's lost where your music folder is.
That's set in prefs>advanced.”

No it doesnt show where the path is unless it can find the file annoyingly, so I don't know where it's looking. It's not all stored in one folder, I had files in there from lots of different folders, but its lost 90% of them, but not all wierdly.

I guess there is no solution apart from start over, I've just deleted a 160 gig library, ouch, now need to track down all the files and start rebuilding again, suppose its an excuse to freshen it up, but there goes every evening this week I guess, it's gonna take me weeks to build it all again, first started making it in 2002!
pumazooma
13-11-2007
I had to do that fairly recently myself after a HD crash and I didn't have a recent library file.

Select the option in the prefs to let itunes organise the files. It'll move all your music to one place and name the folders for you. Then export the library file and back it up. If it goes wrong again you can just load the most recent library and it'll remake all the playlists etc for you.
andybno1
13-11-2007
are the tracks on an external drive?
chocolate_boy
13-11-2007
Originally Posted by pumazooma:
“I had to do that fairly recently myself after a HD crash and I didn't have a recent library file.

Select the option in the prefs to let itunes organise the files. It'll move all your music to one place and name the folders for you. Then export the library file and back it up. If it goes wrong again you can just load the most recent library and it'll remake all the playlists etc for you.”


I did try the Consolodate option before I erased it all, but it wouldn't work, as the library file is there, its the music it can't find, so odd. It's almost as if it thinks I've moved it all, but its all still there, I can access it through Windows Explorer just fine.

No the music is all on my D drive, second internal.

Ah well I've wiped the whole lot not, shame cos I've moved this library from PC to PC for the last 6 years, first time I've lost it, I have about 60 songs back in, out of 10,000 lol. Gonna be a long weekend!
JohnD2000
13-11-2007
Did you delete them yet?

When I get this, I delete the database, but keep the files. Then I simply add the main root folder of the library. It takes a while to reload everything, but you get a nice clean database in the end.
chocolate_boy
14-11-2007
Originally Posted by JohnD2000:
“Did you delete them yet?

When I get this, I delete the database, but keep the files. Then I simply add the main root folder of the library. It takes a while to reload everything, but you get a nice clean database in the end.”

I deleted the database but not the mp3 files themselves obviously. I don't have them all in one folder, I organise my music a bit wierd, have folders for genres and eras etc. so had just handpicked the best from those and dragged them into the library, it's that I have to do all over again now
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