Itunes is losing all my music!!!!
Can someone please help me.
I have spent a whole day loading all my music (4200 tracks) onto itunes and arranging them into play lists. I then loaded it onto my photo IPOD without a problem and it played fine on my compuer through itunes, for a couple of weeks. Then one day I opened itunes to find that all the music had gone and no play lists were shown.The music was still stored in MY MUSIC folder but had vanished from itunes, needless to say I have not reconnected my ipod or I would lose all the music on that as well.
I had to reload it all again and organise it all into playlists.Then a short time later it did it again!
I've just about had enough of it now.
Can anyone please offer any advice as to why this keeps happening and how I can prevent it happening again.
Thanks Mark
60 gig Photo Windows XP
There could be several reasons for this. Without more info I would be speculating.
Looks like your 'iTunes Library.itl' database file is getting corrupted or deleted, forcing iTunes to create a new, blank one in its place.
The file is usually located in the 'iTunes' folder. For a start, make backup copies of this file each time that iTunes closes. Store them in a safe folder.
If the same thing happens again, then:
- Close iTunes
- Copy the 'last good version' of the ITL file into the 'iTunes' folder
- Open iTunes
This will (at least) allow you to quickly recover the Library data. Why it continues to disappear is difficult to diagnose without much more info.
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