Accidently deleted itunes library via home share - Help!!

Hi there,  I have just gone onto homeshare to get my iTunes library on my daughter's iphone.  I then clicked edit and deleted the files that she didn't want on the phone, but it appears to have deleted all my iTunes library.  Please help, Can I restore it? It's all my music, gone. Many thanks in advance.

Lindsay B wrote:
I accidently deleted my Itunes library and emptied the trash. I do have Time Machine. Can I use that to restore it? I went into Time Machine and couldn't click on the "Music" folder where my Itunes library was stored, even on backups earlier than when I deleted it. Am I doomed? How can I restore my library?
Ouch - a double mistake.
Select the music folder in Finder before running TM and see if that gets you there.
If not, then double-click the TM volume icon on the desktop and migrate down to a folder that has a recent date on it that is before your accident.
Click the arrow on the left of that folder name and you will see Macintosh HD
Click the arrow on that directory
Click the arrow on Users
Click the arrow by your name
Click the arrow by Music
What you see is what you got.
Take it from there.
Don't do anything more than copy a file from the TM backup. *Do not* move or disturb it in any way. The copy may not be the entire set of items you want, but if they are there you should be able to retrieve them the proper way, using Finder and TM normally
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