Itunes damaged library - Help!

Hello Everyone, my itunes library doesn't recognize my library anymore when it starts up and says the library is damaged and renamed. It then creates a new library which is blank. Is there any way to recover my library?
Thanks!

Time Machine is a Mac OS X Leopard backup utility. Basically, it creates backups of your machine on an hourly/daily/weekly basis. You're running a Windows box, but if you do any sort of backup on your machine, you may be able to use the same fix I've just recommended.
Query: just what, exactly, was mistakenly deleted? The "iTunes Music Library" isn't really = all your music files. It's really just a database that tells iTunes where to find your music files (your songs) on your hard drive. Most of the people posting in this thread have a corrupted library file, but their songs are still on their hard drive and (assuming that they can't fix the problem the way I did) they can fix the problem with a brute force approach:
delete the library file (but NOT the folder of songs on the hard drive). delete iTunes. reinstall iTunes. Run iTunes and then use the "Add to Library" command in the File menu to rebuild the Library file from scratch: in the dialog box, navigate to the folder where you keep your music.
Your message, however, implies that you have a different problem from the other people in this thread. Have you deleted just the library file or did you accidently delete all your music files (all your songs)? If you did delete your songs, it IS possible to recover all your music from your iPod, but it requires a non-Apple utility. (Apple designed the iPod/iTunes interface to make it difficult to move music off an iPod onto a computer, I think because of concerns about music piracy.) There are lots of utilities out there which enable one to recover music from an iPod. Do a Google search for "recover music from ipod" (no quotes) and you'll see a lot of options.

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Itunes damaged library file

My itunes has been working reasonably well but I have had many issues with it crashing over the last year or so. I just got a Sonos device and after having problems with indexing my songs the support guy looked through my itunes folder with me and we found a load of library files as follows:
itunes library (Damaged)   Created 15 Sep 2012, modified and last opened 16 Sep 2012
itunes Library Extras.itdb   Created 16 Sep 2012, modified and last opened today
itunes library genius.itdb   Created 16 Sep 2012, modifed and last opened 8 Dec 2012
itunes library.itl               Created 8 December 2012, modifed and last opened today
itunes library.xml             Created, modified and last used 15 October 2008
itunes music library.xml    Created 18 May 2009, modified and last used today
We moved all of these files up a level to the music folder, which didn't help with Sonos, and the support guy at Sonos then suggested I 'Reset' my itunes folder location in the Preferences.
THe issue with Sonos was that it was picking up some but not all of the songs and I couldn't see any sort of pattern to it. The number of songs I have is fine and there is very little if any DRM left in there.
It looks as though I need to do something to sort out these library files but I'd prefer to get some guidance from you guys on this forum.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
David

All these files should reside in ~/Music/iTunes. You don't need the damaged file, or the iTunes library.xml file. That is an old library file as yu can see from the date. One troubleshooting step that sometimes helps me is to delete the iTunes Music Libray.xml file and let iTunes rebuild it. Although I'm not really sure it will help in your situation.
The other question I would ask is about the format of the music that isn't bring found by the Sonos device. Are you sure it works with the files that aren't bring recognized?
I'm afraid I don't have a lot of input beyond that, though.

Repeated itunes damaged library messages

I am having repeated issues with damaged itunes libary. It is intermittent. I can't seem to pin point what is causing it.
I have recreated the library - according to apple's instructions. But then the problem recurs.
It will always bring in my music libary - but then I have to re-customize my columns with the fields I want to see. It never brings in my apps - I always have to add the apps folder. And of course when I bring in the apps - I have to reset all the customizations again. This is very frustrating.
The one thing I have not done is reinstall itunes - but I suspect the problem is something with my libary or a setting that is affecting it.
Any ideas? Please help. This is driving me crazy!!
Ann

Thank you for responding!
Regarding saving a copy of the file - I have to make sure I do this after every add/change to the libary, right? Otherwise I lose any adds, correct?
As for the other ideas:
1. No temp files. But there is a hidden file called "sentinel". Not sure what that is.
All the other files are the damaged files (there are 11), itunes libary extras.itdb, itunes libary genius.itdb, itunes libary.itl and itunes music libary.xml.
2. iTunes is in the default location: music\iTunes
3. No external plugins installed per diagnostics. But I did get this list at the top of the diagnostics report:
Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Enterprise Edition (Build 7600)
LENOVO 4389AB8
iTunes 10.1.1.4
QuickTime 7.6.9
FairPlay 1.10.14
Apple Application Support 1.4.1
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 3.3.0.69
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.52.0.0
Bonjour 2.0.3.0 (214.3)
Gracenote SDK 1.8.2.457
Gracenote MusicID 1.8.2.89
Gracenote Submit 1.8.2.123
Gracenote DSP 1.8.2.34
Are any of these widgets or plug-ins?
Thanks for any help you can provide.

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My computer shut down due to low battery... Now my entire music library is gone. There is a file that says iTunes library (damaged) but it will not open!
Any idea how to get my music back from the void?

You can find instructions here:
How to recreate your iTunes Library
Hope this helps.

ITunes damaged library leads to thousands of missing songs

Ok, so my itunes library decided that it wanted to become damaged, then when I go to rebuild the library, it only imported about 500 songs of the close to 2 thousand before. So I went into my external drive where I keep the song files, and discovered that almost all of them were missing. I even checked in the trash with no luck. Any ideas how I could find these, or somehow the restore huge investment of my library?
Thank You Very Much!

http://www.prosofteng.com/ is one piece of software (not free, none of them are), but you can Google. They all search a drive for deleted files and try to recover them (to a different drive, of course).
For rebuilding the library, it was basically just re importing all of the songs
The ones it could still find on the eHD, right? 500 or so?
It is very important you don't write to the eHD from now on, or you could easily overwrite the areas where your music files still are.

Help, damaged library every time itunes opens...

Ok, so this happens a lot, every single time i load itunes i get the damaged library message, usually it goes on to re analysing everything to the same volume, podcast subscriptions gone etc, but today i loaded itunes and there were only 8 songs listed.
ive tried re installing numerous times, nothing seems to help... the problem always re occurs
I keep all my music files on a seperate HD installed inside my machine, its called drive F. itunes is installed on the machines original HD along with all other software. but i had this problem even before i installed and put all my music files onto this hard drive.
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Hi,
I hav exactly the same problem. Didn't find a solution yet. YOu? It started when I ticked 'use volume check' when buring a cd. I unchecked it, no result. I reinstalled iTunes, no effect.

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my ibook crashed when trying to download a large email attchment and when I re-started, my music library was damaged and a new one was "created" with nothing in it. How can I re-install my old library.... I can see the one labelled damaged but I can't import it via itunes.

A damaged 'iTunes Library' file is unusable and there is no way to repair it as far as I know.
If your 'iTunes Music Library.xml' file still reflects the contents of the now damaged 'iTunes Library' file, you can try to use this one.
Choose 'Import...' from the File menu and navigate to the 'iTunes Music Library.xml' file. Click 'Choose'. There's a very small chance it will work.
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Drop the 'iTunes Music' folder (in./Users/YourUsername/Music/iTunes) on the empty library in iTunes.
iTunes will rebuild the library. You have lost your playlists, play counts, date added, ratings and podcast subscriptions, but at least the library is populated again.
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M
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With Windows Explorer, navigate to your C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support folder.
Copy the SQLite3.dll that you should find there, navigate to the nearby Mobile Device Support folder, and Paste it in there also.
Restart the programme all should be well
In case that your OS is (64 bit)
1. Open windows explorer, go to location C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support
2. Copy file "SQLite3.dll"
3. Now paste it in the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support
4. Restart the programme, it should not display that message, it should be clear.
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The file "iTunes Library.itl" cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes".
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I have a MacBook Pro 17" running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and iTunes version 10.3.1. I have upgraded to two WD 750 hard drives internally, and my music library is approximately 500GB.
Almost every other time I restart iTunes or my laptop, iTunes has to reload the library and tells me that it's created a Damaged library file with the recovered music. Each time it does that 'library' contains all of my music, and each damaged library is exactly the same. Is anybody else having this issue, or had this issue and found a solution?
I have tried re-installing my OS, re-installing iTunes, as well as running numerous checks on both hard drives. Thank you!

While it's sporatic when nothing has changed in the library, it would appear that Everytime the library is added to, it will malfunction again in the same way...
I'm going to try RAIDing my hard-drives, re-installing it all, and seeing if that changes things, Here Goes!

Itunes music library file cannot be saved (error -48) Help! please!

every time i either use iTunes, or look at iTunes, play any file in iTunes (even though it does play the file) it comes up with this message-
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this is kind of funny. First I read from paper something that Apple is going to break every hacked or some other way touched Iphones to keep their business rolling. Now they did something with the iTunes which eventually broke up our playlist. I fixed this with by deleting my Smart playlists. What I noticed while deleting those was kind of... wierd..
I have all my classic rock etc in the play list named Speed metal. While I was listening WASP (ripped from CD, not bought from itunes - is that what makes you mad, Apple? ) from the normal library I got the error message. So. I though that there must be some broken link between smart list and this song and I deleted the smartlist (Speedmetal).
Wierd part is that I was still listening this song from iTunes Library but when I deleted the smart list it stopped playing the music. That is when I realized that the smart list system is some how affected with this newest update.
After deleting I didn't had to rebuild the library or anything so I still got my Date added and how many times played tags available and also my own genres! Thank god. Because I have all my CD's (~400) on iTunes with own Genres and settings...
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i am planning to restore my computer and i was wondering what is the BEST way to save my itunes library so that it will be the same when i put it back on my newly restored computer.
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anything would be great.
thanks a lot,
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copy your iTunes Library and iTunes Music Library.xml files. Do whatever you have to do to your computer then replace the copied files back in the itunes folder. Start itunes and it should see your old library.
Make sure not to erase your music library

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My itunes library view is only showing purcahsed items, not my full music library. I've checked advanced preferences and am pointed to the correct library and all my files are there but they aren't showing in the library view? I'm terrified to sync my devices and lose all of my music and playlists.

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