Cannot see files in music folder even though they play in itunes
I have my entire music folder on a NAS drive (lacie 500 gb ethernet disk mini). It has been working pretty well for a few months but now I can't see most of my music files, even though they show up in iTunes, and when I do "get info" it shows the location as the NAS drive (i.e., NAS drive:music:U2:achtung baby:03 One.mp3) and it will play the song(s). However, when I go to the NAS drive and click on the music folder, I can't actually see a U2 folder. And the music folder itself only shows about 20% of my library (even though 100% of the library shows up in iTunes and does play and all my random "get info" tests show that all of the music is on my NAS drive).
It's wonderful that the music isn't actually lost, but why are most of the music files hidden and how can I see them again? I have no music files on my macbook - everything is stored off the NAS drive. I'm about to get a backup drive, but I'm concerned that it won't back up these apparently "hidden" music files. I did search for the files (i.e., any file containing "U2" on my NAS drive and it came back as 0 files found, which is really odd. I mean, if that were true, why is iTunes pointing to the NAS drive as the source of the music files?
One other clue - I tried to consolidate my music library, which is relatively small (10.29 gb) -- and after about 5 minutes, it stopped and gave me an error message.
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: myrtlebeach
I honestly don't recall. I do however recall my sense of being overwhelmed as I realized belatedly what a huge project I'd undertaken in doing a clean install. I forgot how many weeks had gone into sorting out setup and drivers and apps and shortcuts and macros and on and on and on. So I started looking for faster, easier ways to get things done. So it's quite likely I just dragged the Documents folder on over.
Assuming that's the case, what's the best correction at this point?
Thanks for the help, --Brian
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