After upgrading to 7.6.1, drive letter changed - can't restore
After upgrading iTunes to version 7.6.1 on my Vista, none of the files could be played, giving me a "file not found". The music is still in the same old folder on my M-drive. Though, in the iTunes library file, the drive somehow was set to F, my DVD-drive.
I have tried consolidating, set/reset drive in settings, edit the library xml-file, but it still insist that my music is on the DVD. How can I restore the library without having to import all the music again?
Found the solution. I had to move the library.xml out of the iTunes folder, find and replace all the entries of the wrong drive letter, and the import the XML to iTunes, making it a new library xml file. This makes all the song tagged as imported today, else everything seems to be fine.
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