ITunes 7 crashes when loading Library - please help

Question

I loaded ver 7, all was well for a day or two. I was loading some new music from CD when itunes crashed. I fired it back up and my library was missing, although the files were still on the HD. I have tried every way I know to get itunes to list the files again (add folder, move library folder then move back…), but every time after about 30 seconds of reading files into the database, itunes crashes. I have tried small subsets, closing all other applications, completely removing itunes and reloading. I have not tried reverting, yet (I hate to give up). Oh, for what it is worth, my iTunes icons were good prior to the crash, now I also have the misterious icon error... Thanks ahead for any ideas!
Home Built   Windows XP Pro  

Answer 1

Is your computer doing anything else at the time? I had problems with itunes freezing when I had 8 browser tabs open, & was switching between all.
Have you recently moved any itunes folders? I had the constantly updating my library problem when I moved all my music to an external drive (inevitable in itunes), then when I had to move the itunes program itself to the external drive (as it was storing many Gb's of podcasts on the 40Gb main hard drive).
Did you update to 7.2? I am also running xp pro & asked a question here about updated from 7.1. From the advice I had gotten, I'm sticking with 7.1. Perhaps you can roll back the installation (though not sure you can do this with itunes, as is possible with windows media player). If not, uninstalling 7.2 then reinstalling 7.1 might bring your system back to normalcy. Sometimes fixing something takes too much time and effort when what you had before worked fine. Good Luck!
Compaq Presario   Windows XP Pro   DSL