ITunes 7 calls my library invalid
after upgradeing to itunes 7 i got this message
the file "iTunes Library" does not appear to be a valid iTunes library file. iTunes has attempted to recover your iTunes library and renamed this file to "iTunes library (damaged)"
this deleated over 1000 of my songs... which i backed up so it's not really alost... but whats wrong with my old library and will it happen again
also now when playing songs on iTunes i hear a clicking sound from my speakers. its not the speakers cause it only happens when i'm playing iTunes
ok i just discovered somthing rather interesting
all this time after iTunes said my library was damaged i was trying to re upload all my songs from out side sources (DVDs External HD etc) and eventually i was being informd that i was running out of space on my HD.
in my KAT>MUSIC>iTUNES>iTUNES MUSIC folder...all my songs are there... undamaged and i was able to simply copy them back to iTunes from there.... file folder by file folder.... brought back almost 8000 songs so my total in iTunes library was up too about 10,000.
then as i was re nameing some of the files in itunes (deleteing some copies etc) iTunes shut down. when i restarted it, it said once again... "your iTunes Library is invalid.... we are retriveing your library and calling the old library iTunes Library (Damaged) 1" when i opened iTunes i was back down to 2000 songs
so now in my KAT>MUSIC>iTUNES folder there is...
iTunes Library 4MB
iTunes Library (damaged) 13MB
iTunes Library (damaged)1 15MB
and in my KAT>MUSIC>iTUNES>iTUNESMUSIC folder there are all my songs
why does it keep calling my library invalid and should i even bother re-copying the songs to iTunes. should i delete the (damaged) libraries that are takeing up so much space in the HD
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