HT1349 Yesterday, 18/08/2013, my itunes library was corrupted for no apparent reason, the library is intact but all playlists, favourites, guenius, the library rebuilt itself.  PC based not MAC, why?

Yesterday, 18/08/2013, my itunes library began rebuilding for no good reason when itunes was fired up.  It took a fair while with near 400 albums.  The library seems to be intact but all Playlists, Favourites, Purchased items, times played history information was lost.  Most sleeve pictures were recovered but some I noticed were later versions (digitally enhanced for example).
There was a Windows 7 update the night before but I don't remember if itunes was used after this or not.
Has anyone else experienced this?
I have had to choose the 'ipad' community although this is not the device I use, I can't select itunes as it is not listed.

ChuckLD wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply... Old habbits die hard when you're a life long PC user :- ) When I was refering to the C: drive, I actually meant my MacBook internal hard drive. I'm using OS X 10.5.2.
No worries. It's just sometimes people don't say what they mean or mean what they think they mean and it can slow down the process. Of course, sometimes I just don't read what people actually wrote.
I keep my external hard drive connected via the Airport Extreme Base Station, and always keep it connected ( in other words, I see it in the Finder SideBar, and it always says connected ).
Hmm. That should mean it's "mounted". However, I do have some vague recollection that using an Airport disk was problematic. However, the articles I read on that were back when the Airport Extreme first debuted. I'm not as conversant with using Airport disks as I just use an external USB drive connected to my MacBook. Sorry I don't have more wisdom...

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