Lost iTunes Info

On March 14th 2006 as I was trying to download a screen saver from apple when my computer went on the fritz. I relaunched the Finder and to my horror my computer had been reset to the factory settings. Thankfulyl no data was gone but getting everything back to normal took a long time. When I imported all my iTunes back in all the information (play counts, last played, date added) was all gone. I assume now the 3.5 years later and with a new computer that is probably not coming back. But is there any way to find out when exactly my music was ripped? Or is that lost in time forever?

You could go look at the file info in the Finder to see the creation date. That is the best that you can do.
If you know about when you put groups of files into iTunes you can change your Mac date and time to the previous date and then add those files back into iTunes. iTunes looks at your current system clock to populate the Date Added column.
if no data was lost then why did you have to import all you tunes again?
MJ

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OK, here's my situation:
I have Windows XP. I realised that no album artwork was showing on my iPod nano, even though it was on iTunes (most up-to-date version). This was because the error with the "Chkdsk" thing kept appearing. After I ran that, nothing changed, but after I'd changed some setting somwhere, I thought I'd fixed the problem. But I had to stop partway through the operation so only some of it came up on the iPod.
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