ITunes created backup disc wont import
I used the backup feature in iTunes to backup my entire music collection. Now in an attempt to get it on a new computer, I followed Apples directions to open iTunes, insert the disc and iTunes is supposed to ask me if I want to restore, but it never asks.
How do I get my music into iTunes?
edit: yes, I put the first disc in.
I solved my own problem via the search function...
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After "Restoring iTunes Library backup" it wont link to the files in the iTunes folder. I've followed the procedure as described, and the iTunes folder is in the correct location. iTunes lists all my music correctly (albeit with no artwork), but can't locate any of the files.
I've been restoring my iTunes folder from a backup hard drive to a new computer on which I've downloaded the latest iTunes (10.7). If this is a newer version than the one I backed up with could this be the problem? (I had the latest (to my knowledge) iTunes when I backed up the folder about 3 weeks ago, was this version 10.7?)
Or is the version of iTunes (within recent updates) not an issue when restoring a library?
Using Windows 7.
Any help please?From the top of the page where the scripts live...
The general method of use is to download the script to a folder of your choice, e.g. your Desktop, Downloads folder or create a folder at ...\iTunes\Scripts. Select a playlist or highlight some tracks in iTunes and then double-click on the script to execute it. If no specific tracks are selected the script will try to work with all tracks in the current playlist. Some scripts offer a choice of track by track confirmation of changes or fully automatic processing of the selection. Many of the scripts can optionally display a progress bar while running.
You are strongly advised to backup your entire library, or at the very least the iTunes Library.itl file, before use. Test the behaviour of your chosen script on a small group of files first to make sure it does what you want before applying it to large numbers of files.
Most builds of Windows will execute *.vbs scripts when you double-click them. If that doesn't happen then you might need to visit the Add/Remove Programs or Programs & Features control panel to enable the Windows Scripting Host. I can track down details if you have issues.
Backing up and restoring data is an area that is often glossed over. Most people don't try to learn much about it until they've lost something important. (Me too )
If your iTunes library was in the usual layout then normally copying the whole iTunes folder from the User's Music folder in the old computer to the User's Music folder in the new one will usually work fine. Ideally this is done before iTunes is installed so that there is no empty library to replace, and all settings are picked up from the old library. This post contains more details.
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Does iTunes create a copy when importing content?
I was wondering if iTunes creates copies of the movies I import. If it does, should I delete the content I used from my hard drive
Hello Jaime_Perez86,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
By default iTunes will make a copy of what you are importing and add that to the library.
You can see where the file is being stored that iTunes is playing back like this:
Locate your iTunes files
Do either of the following:
Find out where a file is stored: Select the item in iTunes, and choose File > Get Info. The path to the file is shown at the bottom of the Summary pane (next to Where).
Show the file in the Finder: Select the item in iTunes, and choose File > Show in Finder.
From: iTunes Help Menu
https://help.apple.com/itunes/mac/11.1/help/index.html?localePath=en.lproj#itns2 999
If you notice that your iTunes media files are not all in the iTunes media folder, you can consolidate the meda into the iTunes folder to make backing up your library easier.
Consolidate your files in the iTunes folder
Depending on how you imported items into iTunes, some items in your library might be stored in different locations (in another folder or on another hard disk, for example).
You can consolidate all the files in your library in the iTunes folder—for example, to make it easier to move your library to a new computer.
Choose File > Library > Organize Library.
Select “Consolidate files.”Files remain in their original locations, and copies are placed in the iTunes folder.
To create folders (Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, Audiobooks, and so on) inside your iTunes folder, and place all your imported media files in the appropriate folders, select “Reorganize files in the folder ‘iTunes Media.’”
From: iTunes Help Menu
https://help.apple.com/itunes/mac/11.1/help/index.html?localePath=en.lproj#itns2 999
All the best,
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Operation Not Supported on Socket/Backup disc wont mount
For a few months I have been wirelessly backing on a G5 iMac and Intel Macbook to a partition on a G4 mac mini with no problems. All are on Leopard and all updates applied.
I now cant:
connect to the Time Machine backup
back up
mount the sparesbundle
Help! I have recently lost a harddrive on my mini and macbook so def want to back up!
The error I get when I try to do the above is either "the backup disk could not be mounted' or 'not supported on this socket"
I recently ran all updates. Also, until yesterday I had only used that partition for back ups. I used it to transfer iTunes music then deleted the folder and wondering if this has affected it.
Thanks!
GusI run Time Machine between a dual G4 and an external RAID 1 drive connected by Firewire; no problems there, but I also decided to back up a Mac Mini to the same drive via Time Machine, over the network and through the G4 to reach the external drive. I wasn't expecting the sparsebundle structure to be created on the drive-- I had not heard of a sparsebundle before and thought Time Machine on the Mac Mini would create a backup structure similar to the one the G4 had created on the external drive, as I gather happens with a networked disk like Time Capsule. In any case, the Mac Mini created and populated the sparsebundle fine the first time it backed up and continued to add to it hourly/daily, but a few days later, after restarting the machines, the sparsebundle could no longer be mounted. I thought it might be something shaky in the Firewire link to the external drive, so I also tried backing up to a G4 internal drive which would then be backed up by the G4's Time Machine to the external drive. Same result-- the sparsebundle backup worked the first time and continued hourly/daily, but could no longer be mounted after restarting. (This seems to me like a simpler situation than some in the discussion, where people are dealing with a sparsebundle via a different machine than created it.) Permission fixing with chmod does not seem to have helped thus far, though I am not so familiar with chmod as to be sure I am doing it right. I'm approaching this incrementally, as I've heard the warnings about chmod's power and I'm not in a crisis mode at the moment, e.g., having lost data I really need to recover. Still, it seems reasonable to me to be able to use networked machines to spread valuable data recoverably across different physical drives, so I'm wondering why it is not simpler.
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ITunes creating playlist automatically whrn importing music
Itunes 10.4 in two computers (OSX and Windows XP) creates playlists when importing folders into the library, and autoplays them. Never happened before. ¿Any solution?
I did find a workaround. Itunes Folder Watch.will add folders without playlists. I deleted all the items and unwanted playlists in my itunes library, closed itunes, deleted the shortcuts to itunes and replaced them with shortcuts to itunes Folder Watch. Then I started up itunesFolder Watch, which reopens itunes. I selected my media folder and then Folder Watch made a list of the items under "new tracks", I clicked "add tracks to itunes" and added all the items. It took a long time, but now it only takes a minute to check for new tracks. There is a bug where it keeps thinking that about a dozen John Haitt albums are new tracks even though though they have already been loaded. Other than that, it solves the problem.
When I hear that Steve Jobs was very demanding and had to make his programmers go back to the drawing board over and over again, I wonder if it was because his programmers did such a lousy job they deserved to be yelled at or if they actually did it right the first time but Steve Jobs had no idea what he was putting the users thru as he kept telling them to add brilliant ideas that didn't make any sense in the real world. Some how I don't think its the programmers fault. It isn't just itunes. I always find these weird problems whenever I get desparate enough to use apple products. For example, I haven't been able to figure out how to listen to podcasts on an mp3 player without using apple, and there is no way to get it to play a list of podcasts. It only plays them 1 at time. I spent hours on the phone with Apple and the only thing they could tell me was to make a movie of the podcasts everytime there is a new podcast, which is a royal pain in the ***. I am not going to do it. The very idea is absurd.
I'm absolutely sure there is no technical reason why these things can't be done, so it seems like there must be some reason why it makes more money for apple to do it completely the wrong way, users be damned, You know, like any Microsoft Product. So when I read in the media how Apple made gadgets easy to use, I don't understand how that could be true. Gadgets are generally NOT easy to use and there is no reason for it.They could easily be easy to use but the people in management have no imagination and the programmers got tired of explaining to them how their instructions don't make any sense and just gave up even trying to make itunes easy to use. I don't know a whole lot about Apple so I could easily be wrong about all that, but thats my guess. -
Restoring iTunes from backup disc
I'm moving my music from old computer to new and according to the instructions the iTues will recognize the backup and ask if you want to restore - well it doesn't happen.
Is there a way I can restore from the iTunes software?
I'm looking through all the menus and there is no option to restore.
MarkI went to iTunes HELP and found the follow: Let us know if none of these options are working for you. Good Luck!
Moving your iTunes library to another computer
If you get a new computer, Setup Assistant helps you transfer files from another computer. If you don't transfer files during setup, you can transfer your iTunes library by connecting computers, or by using a portable hard drive or iPod.
For more information, open Mac Help (in the Finder, choose Help > Mac Help) and search for "transferring files between computers." Also click the links below to see articles on the Apple Service & Support website.
When you sell or give away a computer, don't forget to deauthorize it.
Related Topics
Backing up your iTunes library to CD or DVD
Authorizing a computer to play iTunes Store purchases
Saving a copy of your playlists
Buying from the iTunes Store with other computers
Go to
Apple Service & Support article: "How to copy music between authorized computers"
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Hi
I had my iTunes library on an external hard drive which has crashed. The data is unrecoverable. I've now bought a new laptop and I want to rebuild my iTunes library. I found a set of backup discs I created back in 2010 and although they don't represent everything I lost, they do comprise about 75% of the 25,000 songs in my library - so being able to restore using those would save me a huge amount of time.
The only problem is that when I load the disc, iTunes recognises it and even displays the tracks as a list - but I can't seem to find anyway of importing them other than manually importing each folder, which is only marginally better than having to re-import each individual CD again.
Previously when I've used the discs - i.e. the last time I changed laptops - I popped a backup disc in and iTunes automatically restored everything on it.
Is there a way of doing that that I'm missing, or has Apple decided, for whatever reason, to remove that functionality? I've Googled this problem and asked friends who are into Apple (the only Apple product I use is iTunes) but I don't seem to be able to get a clear answer.
Any help appreciated.It seems the ability to restore from backup discs was removed along with the ability to create them. You will need to temporarily install an older version of iTunes (e.g. 10.3) to recover the media from those discs.
See Win 7 OS,64 Bit..Going back to ver 10.3 as I wish to use the cdbackup/restore version..I for a previous thread discussing this.
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my itunes 8.1.1 is having major problems, it wont import any music files, Quicktime 7.6 opens them fine but not itunes, no error message or anything, it shows the normal green "+" sign when i drag the song over the itunes window but when i let go it does nothing, ive tried mp3s aiffs and wav files, it wont import music i purchase from the itunes store either, it gives an error stating:
"There was a problem downloading "song name", an unknown error occurred (-50)"
i tried using pacifist to go back to v 8.0.2 but it says it cant use the music library files because they were created by a newer version of itunes, i re-installed 8.1.1 install was successful, but still wont import anything.
i tried repairing permissions on my HD but still no luck, what do i do?
-Jon DI had this problem with iTunes 8.2. It refused to import any .MP3 or .AIFF files either by dropping the file on to the iTunes icon or by using "Add to Library". No error messages, just did not import the file. OTher media players played the files just fine.
I've just solved my import problem, but I don't know if my solution is a general one.
When I looked at Preferences / Advanced, the iTunes Music folder location was showing as blank, (though despite this iTunes was using my library OK, it was just import that was not working). Simply trying to change the location using iTunes Preferences / Advanced had no effect on the import problem.
I use an external drive for my iTunes library, with the music folder location set using an alias on the internal hard drive pointing at the library on the external drive. The alias was pointing at the correct place, but for some reason the alias was not appearing in the iTunes Preferences / Advanced / iTunes Music folder location window.
My solution was as follows:
- I re-selected the original that the alias was pointing at using "Select New Original" in the File / Get Info window.
- I then "reset" the location of iTunes music folder in iTunes to the same old alias file I'd been using all along.
This seems to have solved the problem. Files import fine now.
Hope this helps somebody, it was a real pain not being able to import anything.
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I just installed iTunes on my computer, where I already have all my music. I went to Edit > Preferences > Advanced, and changed the iTunes Media Folder Location to where I have all my music, in the "Local Disk." But iTunes wont import all my music. Help?
Have you looked in the Music App on your iPhone? On the iPhone music is played by the Music App not iTunes.
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How to create backup file on itunes for ipod touch 4g game apps data? Is there a way to do it? I want to try an app on my friend's computer, but you can't add apps on another computer without having your own ipod's data being deleted. Thx for any help!
I want to know how to create a backup file (because I'm pretty new with itunes, and it's hard to use it for me still), how to store my app data/media/videos, etc. And how I can retrieve them back when I'm done with the app I tried on my friend's computer.
If anyone can help, it'd be great! Thank you so much!Sure-glad to help you. You will not lose any data by changing synching to MacBook Pro from imac. You have set up Time Machine, right? that's how you'd do your backup, so I was told, and how I do my backup on my mac. You should be able to set a password for it. Save it. Your stuff should be saved there. So if you want to make your MacBook Pro your primary computer, I suppose, back up your stuff with Time machine, turn off Time machine on the iMac, turn it on on the new MacBook Pro, select the hard drive in your Time Capsule, enter your password, and do a backup from there. It might work, and it might take a while, but it should go. As for clogging the hard drive, I can't say. Depends how much stuff you have, and the hard drive's capacity. As for moving syncing from your iMac to your macbook pro, should be the same. Your phone uses iTunes to sync and so that data should be in the cloud. You can move your iTunes Library to your new Macbook pro
you should be able to sync your phone on your new MacBook Pro. Don't know if you can move the older backups yet-maybe try someone else, anyways,
This handy article from Apple explains how
How to move your iTunes library to a new computer - Apple Support''
don't forget to de-authorize your iMac if you don't want to play purchased stuff there
and re-authorize your new macBook Pro
time machine is an application, and should be found in the Applications folder. it is built in to OS X, so there is nothing else to buy. double click on it, get it going, choose the Hard drive in your Time capsule/Airport as your backup Time Machine and go for it. You should see a circle with an arrow on the top right hand of your screen (the Desktop), next to the bluetooth icon, and just after the wifi and eject key (looks sorta like a clock face). This will do automatic backups of your stuff. -
I upgraded to iTunes 10.5 and now I can't back up iTunes library to disc. In previous versions it was in file>library>backup to disc. In iTunes 10.5 that is gone!
Some of us have our enture itunes library backed up on CD/DVD - what a waste of time and effort as now presumably you can't use these discs to restore itunes on a new computer! WHY NOT APPLE?
Very unimpressed with itunes 10.5/ios5 - wifi tracking apps have been removed from the store (and won't function in ios5), it's impossible to sync photos (I have spent a whole day trying to sync my iphone 3GS with itines 10.5) to no avail and now, no CD backup facility.
I have never had problems with apple before - I was thinking of upgrading my whole system from PC to Mac but now I am doubtful - if this is typical of apple software, I will stay with windows! -
Restoring songs from my backup disc of purchased song frm Itunes...
Awhile back ago I burned a disc with songs and videos that I purchased in Itunes. I burned them onto a cd. Now I inserted 1 of my disc to restore but it's taking awhile. How long does it take?
Should I try to insert another backup disc?It should take about 20 to 30 seconds a song. Depending on how long the song is.
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Imovie 9.0.8 on mountain lion wont import archives created by imovie 9.0.4 running on os 10.6.8
I have created a great many archives using imovie 9.0.4. I have them on a back up disk and can import them using imovie 9.0.4 running on OS 10.6.8.
I got a new Mac running mountain lion with imovie 9.0.8 and it wont import thos archives. When I click import from archive and click one of the archive folders it says:
Folder is Not a Camera Archive
Please select a folder that is a camera archive, then click Import.
Please help!ablyes wrote:
…i already tried a frensh install of mountain lion
I recommended a re-install of the app, not of the OS
… what do you mean by adding some MacOS Voodoo ?
do, what I wrote: re-launch your Mac while holding down the shift-key
this triggers the Safe-Mode, which is recommended by Apple as a maintanance-routine (best done before any updatres) ....
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How Can I play iTunes Library from Remote Disc without importing?
I have my iTunes library copied to an external HD. I want to play it through my iTunes account on my MacBook Air, but don't have the room to import it all. Is there a setting to have iTunes play from a remote disc without importing the tunes to the computer itself?
By the way, the alternative (esp if you don't have a library file on the external disk) is to add the external drive's media files to your laptop's iTunes library on your local hard disk. The downside is that (a) if the external disk is unavailable when you start iTunes, you'll see next to the music in iTunes (telling you that the files are unavailable); and (b) as you manage music on that external disk, you'll have to manually update iTunes on the other computer.
Probably better to keep the library file on the external disk if that external disk ever is going to be disconnected from the the machine or connected to another machine. But if you'd like guidance for keeping the library file on your laptop and media files on the external disk, let us know. -
After iTunes update it won't import a whole CD, only one song at a time.
I just updated iTunes on a Win 7 64 bit system and now can't import an entire CD. Import stops after 1 or 2 songs, and I get error message "Error occurred while converting the file "(song name)". The disk is not available". I can import the entire CD one song at a time, but cannot get the whole disc to import with one command. Already tried repairing the install and a few other suggestions I found online. Nothing has helped. Any suggestions?
For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down the page in case one of them applies.
Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there is backup and recovery advice elsewhere in the user tip.
Although not directly matching your symptoms see also TS2308: iTunes for Windows: Optical drive is no longer recognized, or "Disc burner or software not found" alert after install in case anything there is useful.
You could also try ripping with Windows Media Player to see if the issue is specific to iTunes, or perhaps related to the drive itself or to particular discs. It is always possible that your optical drive has started to fail and can no longer seek reliably.
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