I'm savvy, but this has me stumped...
Ok, here's the problem:
I got this laptop - and it had a 40 GB hard drive. I filled it up pretty quick, so I upgraded to a 100GB hard drive.
My music and iTunes worked perfectly on the 40GB hard drive.
Before making the switch to the new hard drive, I backed up all of my music (which were CD's that I ripped in .m4a format using iTunes) onto an external hard drive.
I installed the new hard drive, put my music onto the new hard drive, and installed iTunes.
Now, I can't play my music on the new hard drive or load them into the library of iTunes. The files are present, the properties say they take up the same amount of space - but when I try to load the files into iTunes, nothing happens.
...any ideas on how I might be able to access my music?
The only thing I've tried to do is re-install iTunes, to no prevail.
There are no security features on tracks you rip from CDs. So that's not an issue.
You may have a problem with the permissions on the My Music folder or with the permissions on the tracks. Did you copy an entire iTunes folder, with the preference files and all? If you did, you might try dragging out the pref files (the .ilt and .xml files) and letting iTunes recreate them and see if that help. Also check the security on the iTunes folder and the folders within it and make sure you have appropriate read and write privileges.
Hope this helps.
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