6.0 Upgrade erased all my music files

Could anyone please help me retrieve these lost and/or invisible files?
There are no music files left in my iTunes music folder. They were there minutes before the upgrade. Others have reported the same experience.
Everyone, make a backup of your music folder before any iTunes upgrade. I didn't and I have no backup as my iPod was linked to another computer.
The last version that worked for me was iTunes 4.9. I do not like the look since 5.0 and the fact that you can no longer search by composer.
Apple has removed almost all previous iTunes versions from their web site. I don't know why because they have all previous iPhoto versions and upgrades still available. Apple, please post prior iTunes versions on your website.
If you want to return to version 4.9 look at the fine instructions in this forum. If you want to download iTunes 4.9 I found one link at www.techwhack.com:
http://appldnld.m7z.net/content.info.apple.com/iTunes4/SBML/osx/061-1868.2005062 7.Tnpl6/iTunes4.9.dmg
RB

I too lost all my music, but on advice from Apple Support, I downloaded a new version of itunes. Here is where I am now. I found my music on my hard drive, however each time I attempt to "import" as suggested, my emac won't light the "choose" button on the import dialog box. When I click the entire folder, choose lights up, but no songs are delivered.
Searching with spotlight, is how I found the music files, but it seems that I have to go through the whole process of "add to library" all 1,536 music files... one at a time. Choose all is not working, so if this is indeed the only way, then....it's gonna' take awhile. Suggestions?

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Are you simply copying your music files to an Ex.HDD or using the Time Machine facility?
A similar thing happened to me when I upgraded to iTunes 8.whatever. I learnt to use Time Machine for backing up. Now everything is backed up every hour and when things go wrong during upgrades (which is often - believe it or not) all my files, playlists and ratings etc. are there to be retrieved.
Nothing can retrieve your lost files unless they're still sitting in the previous iTunes libraries folder. If they are you should be able to reactivate them. Just delete the new library file and move the old one out of the archive folder into the iTunes folder. If you're lucky it should kick in..... It's worked for me before.
Good luck.

How Do I delete all the Music Files at on

Without reformating my Zen Vision:M how do I erase all the music files from the player. I have found that even though I have approx. 0 gig of music on my computer the Zen tells me that I have 9 gig. I want to remove all the music files and re-sync with the pc. I have also fixed a great deal of the "unkown albums" on my computer to have the names and art so I don't want to duplicate the music. Oh and I would like to be able to do this without reloading the firm ware. THANKS!!

You should be able to use Zen Media Explorer to do this. Just use it like Windows Explorer: highlight the albums (folders) you want to delete, hit delete and it should take them off the player (may take some time).

I have 2 computers (1 Pc and 1 MAC) and 1 Iphone.The I phone is synchronised with the PC. I want to synchronised it also with my MAC, without erasing all my music and files. Someone can help me to find the answer ?

I have 2 computers (1 Pc and 1 MAC) and 1 Iphone.The I phone is synchronised with the PC. I want to synchronised it also with my MAC, without erasing all my music and files. Someone can help me to find the answer ?
i have already try the copy/paste thing with the ID of the file "iTunes Music Library.xml" it didn't change a thing. each time I relaunched Itunes, the ID is the first I have in the MAC.
I have more than 5 000 files of music. I don't want to recreate one by one all my playlits.
Many thnaks for your answers.
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You can sync iphone with one and only one computer at a time. If you sync to another, it will erase the current content and replace with content form the new computer. There is no way around this.
Put everything on one computer and sync from there.
BTW, you posted in the Home Share forum. Your question seems to have nothing to do with home share.

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You've been given some misinformation.
RAM is the only thing in an iMac that IS user upgradeable/installable.
You cannot void the extended AppleCare installing your own RAM modules.
So, whoever told you this, has lied to you.
If you actually opened the iMac's face and attempted to do some other internal work, then yes, you would've voided the 3-year warranty.
But, opening the RAM access area and upgrading the RAM does NOT void the AppleCare warranty.
What type or manufacture of RAM was it?
Macs a very picky about the RAM that they need to use.
Here is the correct RAM specs for your model iMac.
Maximum Memory
16 GB
Memory Slots
4 - 204-pin PC3-8500 (1066 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM
Correct and reliable Mac RAM can be purchased from online Mac RAM sources Crucial memory or OWC (macsales.com).
Plus, whoever installed OS X 10.8 Mountain LIon on to this 2009 iMac should've done so.
OS X 10.8 is a download only OS and is forever tied to some other Apple ID other than your own Apple ID.
I do not use OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, but there should be a recovery partition that you can use to try and reinstall OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
Hopefully, someone with more experience with OS X 10.8 will be able to better help you.
If you need a set of OS X restore discs, then order OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard from Apple here.
It is only $20 U.S.D.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
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I downloaded itunes it wasnt working correctly so reinstalled it would it erase all my music if i try to download more of it

i downloaded itunes it wasnt working correctly so reinstalled it would it erase all my music if i try to download more music on itunes

Reinstalling iTunes hould not delete you music files. However, you never know, Things go wrong sometimes. I would back up your music just in case.

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columbus new boy wrote:
How crap is that?
It's not crap at all.
It's not that simple. For example, I've 3500 songs on my MacBook but don't want them all on my phone, so I have to manually select each song again???
There has to be a solution.
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When you are done consolidating, you can delete the extras if you wish.

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So am I understanding correctly?
You used your iPod as a hard drive (drag and drop) instead of having iTunes install the music?
If you used drag and drop your choices are different than if you used iTunes to transfer.
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awesome121 wrote:
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