Entire library vanished!!!
Hi everyone,
As the title says!! Opened iTunes to find the entire library empty!! All my music is still located in the windows music folders so I can copy that back over (takes an absolute age), but where have the 2 movies I recently purchased gone.
What on earth could the problem be?
Any assistance most gratefully received!!!!
Thanks,
Loopy
There is a problem with media management software Vaio xml library Manager, the Vaio content manager and the Vaio Music Box software
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8537277#8537277
In Control Panel, turn off Vaio Content Folder Watcher and VAIO Content Metadata Intelligent Analyzing Manager.
Also see.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2715
Check the Sony support site to see if there is an upgrade for your model that fixes this.
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