ITunes is empty, how do I get my files back into it?
This morning I was trying to clean up my Macbook, get rid of applications I'm not using, clearing caches etc. (Everything was seeming to run a bit slow - which prompted the attempt to clean up unnecessary stuff)
Something ended up happening with my iTunes library - It's like it reset it's self nothing's in it anymore. However, I'm almost certain all the music files are still on my computer. It seems like the library is still there too, I just can't really figure out how I'm supposed to get it back into iTunes. I started to add one (Library file, I think it was) back into iTunes - and it was going fine, until it said that it was running out of memory. I click "OK" I click "Cancel" the error message keeps popping up and not going away. I force quit iTunes, thinking what's already been imported will be there and I can find a way to work out the rest. Didn't work. iTunes is still empty and now about half of my available memory is gone. I have 2 previous itunes Library files (of the lib file type) and an iTunes library.xml there's also a file with all of the music. But I want to see if I can restore my videos as well. I do have everything backed up on an external hard drive, but that's kind of a pain to restore, and I think my files are still here, I'm just confused as to what to do.
The itunes folder now seems to only a fraction of the stuff that I originally had - I'm thinking from when I tried to reimport the stuff and then it said I was out of memory. (the things that were imported are in there, even though no showing up in itunes, and the things that didn't get imported aren't) I don't really get how my entire itunes library can be gone (5000 songs and about a week's worth of videos) yet I have 13MG less memory available. If I lost that much stuff shouldn't I have more?
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