Itunes lost all my music
So this is whats going on. I was listenening to a playlist while playing a game last night. i go to turn on the same playlist tonight and nothing is on itunes. no playlists nor any of the music that is on my external hard drive that stays connected to my computer. The only thing on itunes is the music that i bought through itunes. what is going on with itunes that it just deleted everything by itself.
If you've split the media folder to a separate drive, but have the library files on the internal then you might want to consider normalizing your library so that everything is self-contained on the external drive.
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