ITunes U files disappearing

For organizational purposes, I mark some of my own items as "iTunes U." These are personal lectures, etc. Anyway, lately when I put them on my iPhone, they don't show up as iTunes U -- they just disappear. I know how to find them to get them off the phone entirely -- but how do I get them to stop doing this and show up in my iTunes U app?

Dear Apple,
Please stop ignoring this extremely serious issue that is quite obviously very real for a great number of people. I have an external hardrive set up with YOUR time machine and it has worked very well over the past year with my iMac... until the sum of all backups became too large. I only noticed this after I had to disconnect my hardrive from my iMac when I needed to bring it into an Apple Store for repair. This was in December. Ever since, files of all kinds, especially songs, have been disappearing from my Finder Folder where my files are stored. Same old story as everyone else in this thread; songs, movies, books appear to be there but are followed by an grey circle with an exclamation point in it.
NOW, it is happening to my photos from iPhoto. A thumbnail appears in iPhoto but when I control click to find the file it is missing. VERY uncool, in fact there needs to be someone who address this issue quick. Poor customer service no matter how you look at it to not address it.
iTunes support is only available by email (big surprise) and they are of absolutely no help. Went back an forth a couple dozen times with a seemingly very nice support tech, but ultimately it was my faultt that the files are missing because "I should have them backed up", which I did until my time machine failed - then this problem began happening.
APPLE, PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. YOU ARE ******* YOUR CUSTOMERS OFF AND THAT'S NOT GOOD!

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Out of the blue, a messaged popped up yesterday saying:
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Two questions:
1) What caused this to happen? How does a Library.xml file just up and vanish?
2) How do I find/recreate the missing file? Main concern is preserving all the library data (playlists, star ratings, dates, etc.).
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

me too, last couple months.
Disk Utility did find issues, but it repaired them, and yet the msg. keeps popping up every couple days.
Seems to correlate with my Mini being idle for a good part of the day (while I'm at work).
Hope to god this isn't iTunes giving me an early warning about a disk failure.

Itunes Music Files Disappearing

Hi,
I have a very troubling problem going on right now and I don't know how to handle it...
I am running itunes 10.1.2 on a 10.6.6 macbook. I have a large itunes library (20,000+ songs) stored on a portable hard drive, which I have directed itunes to. A week or two ago, while scrolling through my library, I noticed, next to every song in an entire album, the gray circle with the exclamation point signaling that itunes could not locate the file. I went into my itunes folder on my external and went to where the album should have been... but it was gone. I went back to my itunes and went through it, and I found 6 or 7 more albums where the songs popped up with the exclamation point. I went into the itunes folder and the files were no longer there. I finished going through my library, deleted all the songs, and thought I had cleaned it out.
Last night, as I was going through, I found several more songs with the exclamation. I went to the albums and found that all the songs were missing. I went into the itunes folder, went to where the files should be/were at one time, and they were no longer there. I looked everywhere, but they were wiped clean from the hard drive.
In these past two incidences, I have had to delete over 1,000 songs, as they have disappeared from not only my library, but my itunes folder itself.
I have looked all over, but cannot seem to find a similar problem. I am starting to worry that my music will continue to disappear. If anyone has any thoughts concerning what might be happing or what I can do to fix this, please let me know. Thanks.

Dear Apple,
Please stop ignoring this extremely serious issue that is quite obviously very real for a great number of people. I have an external hardrive set up with YOUR time machine and it has worked very well over the past year with my iMac... until the sum of all backups became too large. I only noticed this after I had to disconnect my hardrive from my iMac when I needed to bring it into an Apple Store for repair. This was in December. Ever since, files of all kinds, especially songs, have been disappearing from my Finder Folder where my files are stored. Same old story as everyone else in this thread; songs, movies, books appear to be there but are followed by an grey circle with an exclamation point in it.
NOW, it is happening to my photos from iPhoto. A thumbnail appears in iPhoto but when I control click to find the file it is missing. VERY uncool, in fact there needs to be someone who address this issue quick. Poor customer service no matter how you look at it to not address it.
iTunes support is only available by email (big surprise) and they are of absolutely no help. Went back an forth a couple dozen times with a seemingly very nice support tech, but ultimately it was my faultt that the files are missing because "I should have them backed up", which I did until my time machine failed - then this problem began happening.
APPLE, PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. YOU ARE ******* YOUR CUSTOMERS OFF AND THAT'S NOT GOOD!

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Hello,
After an update of itunes for Windows (10.4.0.80), I found out that almost all of my music library disappeared from my hard drive.
All music exist in itunes library, but when I try to play a song, a message appear telling me that the music file is missing.
I even tried using an undelete software, but I couldn't find any of my music files.
Do you know what went so wrong?
Thank you

Your files are on your old computer, unless it has been wiped. Where else would you expect them to be?
See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device (or purchase history).
tt2

Hi my iTunes exe file disappeared and when I went through the troubleshooting it said to set up a new, which I did. I have had nothing but pain and grief since doing so?

Hi
I'm just about to pull my hair out with iTunes!! Hvaing been through the troubleshooting soooooooo many times
it said to set up a new iTunes which I done but now it's saying iTunes is an incompatable programe???
The update 10.5 has created more grief as I cant sync my iPhone to my iTunes I have tried the file sharing as
I can't update anything but that's greyed over and I can't tick it?
Every time I open iTunes it opens then doesn't respond, so I have to close and reopen several times and
eventually I can play a tune at least, which I guess is what keeps me going ......... hahaha
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We don't work for Adobe. We are just users.
You'll want to take this to the proper forum for that product at Adobe PDF Pack (read only)
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As previously mentioned. The problem is not with the library itself, but with the list of apps on the device for sync. Chris up there seems to share similar problem. We can see the list of apps on iTunes, but unable to see the list on the application tab on the device, therefore we are forced to sync the apps, with a warning to overwrite the apps on the device with those on the iTunes library.
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I don't know if this is me adding files to iTunes when the external wasn't connected
it is.
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The error message I get on my PC is "The ITunes library file cannot be saved" An unknown error occurred (-50)and my music library has disappeared. I recently tried to copy a CD to my library - it appeared to copy ok but then did not appear in my music li

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I just got a new Windows 8 computer and installed iTunes. I then copied all of my music to my new computer from the old one into a similar \data\music directory organized by artist and album.
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On the new computer (W8) when I add a folder from \data\music to itunes the source album music files disappear.
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This is scary stuff. Luckily I still have a copy on my old computer.
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Eric-B

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If you're interested you could probably "normaiize" your library with a few carefully chosen steps...
tt2

HELP! My iTunes library has disappeared so when I open iTunes it's blank. All the files are still there and the data is on my iPod, how do I restore it??

This happened about twenty minutes ago and I'm frantic trying to get it back.
I've tried all the stuff I can find online, turning it off and on again and nothing will work!
I even tried restoring old libraries to see if that would work but still nothing!
HELP I'M DESPERATE!!

Hello iainhoey
Follow the steps in the article below to roll back the previous iTunes library file to get back your iTunes library.
No content shows up in iTunes after updating
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1967
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I can't drag and drop iTunes music files into Roxio Jam 6 anymore and, now I have to import music one song at a time by using the " " or "-" buttons on the bottom. What is going on? G5 Dual 2 Ghz and OS 10.4.11

Hi. I have not used Roxio Jam for quite a long time and I just wanted to make a few CDs. Jam used to work easily and well. I have a problem. I can't drag and drop iTunes music files anymore and, now I have to import music one song at a time by using the "+" or "-" buttons on the bottom. What is going on? I trashed the preferences file and restarted Jam to no avail. I also have selected that Jam should open files with iTunes in the Jam preferences. I have a G5 DP 2Ghz PPC machine with OS 10.4.11, iTunes 9.2.1 and Quicktime's version is 7.6.4. I have 2 GB of RAM and the machine has dual 1.25 Ghz. processors plus a 500 GB HD. Can anybody give me any suggestions?
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Larry

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I'm having a flaky problem with the ITunes library files (Mac version) stored on a Buffalo NAS. Frequently, ITunes says the ITunes library file is damaged and creates a new one.
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lmdoc50 wrote:
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