ITunes on Windows only has the music that I purchased after the move
Hi all,
I have a Mac Book Pro and I also have a Windows 7 laptop. The Windows 7 laptop already has the latest version of iTunes installed but the library is empty. I followed http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527 to copy my files from my mac to a flash drive. I then copied my files to my Windows laptop. Now, all my files are in the Windows laptop. I held down the shift key while opening iTunes on the Windows laptop and select the iTunes Library.itl file (after renaming it from ._iTunes Library.itl) from copied over from the mac.
However, in iTunes on Windows, it is only listing the music that I purchased with the mac but not the music that I manually added to the mac. I double checked and all the music files (both purchased and manually added) are on the Windows laptop. Other than manually adding those files on Windows, are there some other library files that I need to copy over from my mac to my windows laptop?
Thanks in advance,
Monte
,,,after renaming it from ._iTunes Library.itl from copied over from the mac.
Where did you get that from? The libray on the Mac should have been called iTunes Library, with or without a .itl extension, but no leading ._
I suspect you need to go back to the Mac and copy the correct file.
tt2
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