All but most recent songs have disappeared
All of my albums are still in the standard location, but the albums are now empty of songs.
I am getting the "The song “*********” could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" message. When I open the relevant album folder, it is empty.
The exception are the most recent album purchases which do have all songs in place.
So my questions are:
1 - why would the iTunes application remove my song files?
2 - how can I do a mass restoration?
I can get the tracks to play by choosing 'cancel' from the above error message, at which point iTunes takes a few seconds then pulls the track from the cloud. This isn't a solution, as I am getting the error for every track before I can play it.
Any help greatly appreciated.
They remain in the place where I left them this morning on my MacBookPro. Also mentioning that my iPad retains all the music may help. Do I need to restore iPhone?
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