Lost Album Art

I recently reformatted my hard drive. Before doing that I backed up my Itunes directory with all my albums to an external drive. After reformatting, I copied my ITunes folder back and re-installed ITunes. Something did not go right with that, so I had to re-import my Itunes library. That went fine, but it tried to grab all album art from ITunes store - many of the albums it could not find art for. Before I reformatted I went through much pain to retrieve all the album artwork for my albums - so they exist somewhere in my Itunes folders, I'm just not sure where or how to get them back in Itunes. There's a Get Album Art option - but that only seems to want to get them from the store. I already have the art work - or I think I do, do I? Do I have to go through the pain of locating the albums on the web and transferig the art work again?

PodWorks, or a simular third-party utility should work for you ... The art is embedded as part of the file, so if you had it when you moved it to your iPod it should be on there (and transfer back to your Mac).

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