Can restore everything but ratings - please help
My iTunes crapped out on me for one reason or another - but this time I had backed it up to an external hard drive. I've managed to restore the music files and the playlists, but I can't restore the ratings. I've read enough on here to know they are in the iTunes library .itl file. I tried to import that the same way I imported the .xml file (file - library - import playlist), but it didn't work. Neither did the "Add file to library" option. My only other idea is to plug in my iPod and hope it transfers the ratings back to iTunes, but if that dsoesn't work, I've lost them forever (about 5000). Please help!
My iTunes crapped out on me for one reason or another - but this time I had backed it up to an external hard drive. I've managed to restore the music files and the playlists,
Don't restore anything. Just copy the entire \iTunes\ folder from the backup to \Music\.
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