I lost all my music!
Last night I was moving files around, deleting files and updating my external harddrive. All was fine last night. This morning when I checked out my iTunes, ALL my music was GONE! All my playlists deleted and podcasts disappeared. None of my purchased items are in the iTunes.
I was worried that I may have deleted something, but there is no way that I would of deleted 7 years of music last night and considering all my playlists and everything are gone!
I looked in a bunch of folders and I did find music in different folders in my computer... under vuze downloads and another folder. So it's really bizarre that they were completely deleted from iTunes, when I can still find them on my computer.
I tried plugging in my iPod, and it came up saying that this iTunes is synced with another iTunes - Which isn't correct... It makes no sense!
I have an older mac (about 6 years old) and am running iTunes 9. I can't seem to download my purchased albums.. and not sure where everything else went to.
Any insight? I would really appreciate it - Thanks!
iTunes expects files and folders to be in very specific locations. When you start iTunes it looks for a file called library.itl which is in the iTunes folder. It then uses all the references in that file which tell it where all your media files are located to build up the view you normally see. Probably you moved the library file so iTunes cannot find it and it will make a default one which is empty. When you plug in your iPod it isn't recognizing the library since it is not the same one to which you synced last.
Simply put, you need to undo all your file moves. Not as eaily done as stated but since I cannot quite see from here exactly what you spent an hour doing last night it will be up to you. Did you make a backup before doing all this?
What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391
iTunes 9 [and later]: Understanding iTunes Media Organization - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3847
Image of folder structure and explanation of different iTunes versions (turingtest2 post) - https://discussions.apple.com/message/13025536 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/17457605
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