Lost itunes tracks on a NAS

Lately iTunes has been loosing my music tracks(the grey exclamation point). I have the itunes music folder,xml, and database file all on a NAS that I connect to with my powerbook over wireless. I also connect to this library from a desktop pc over wireless(used mainly for streaming content to my apple tv) and have the same issues with lost tracks. iTunes will let me browse to find the track but it will lose it again after iTunes is restarted. Any help would be appreciated.

i too have just moved all of my music onto a NAS, and I have the same issue. although its not ALL of the tracks, just a bunch of random tracks...
however, they are on the NAS. I have manually re-linked them, but i havnt tested quitting and restarting yet.
-do we need the .xml file there? i dont even think that matters, and i frankly dont even know what that xml file does?
-is there a way to batch the missing links, instead of manually re-locating them? because this is getting annoying, being that i have almost 25gigs (and counting) worth of music to manage.

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I want to rebuild my g/f's lost itunes as a surprise. What is the easiest and stealthiest way to buy tracks via my macbook for her itunes? To be clear I don't want to buy her vouchers I want to buy the songs myself. I don't have access to her itunes account and to ask would give the game away. I don't want to own or listen to the songs myself but I struggle to think of an approach that doesn't involve some sort of piracy.
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Yikes! I think I lost my music. I have been keeping my itune files on a lacie external harddrive, in order to keep my ibook free of space.
For the most part, we import new songs only when the external is hooked up so that all the new files go right into the itunes music library located on that drive.
Over time, though, purchased songs and other song files have imported right into the ibook's library. Recently, I went to move those files over to the external, just as I had when I first moved over everything. I subsequntly deleted the same song files from the ibook.
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That's the cause of the problem.
The way you described it in your first post, makes me think the files could still be on your external HD.
The problem is, you moved the files without letting iTunes know.
The locations are stored in the 'iTunes Library' file (more info here).
If you move them using the Finder the links are lost.
You should have changed the 'iTunes Music folder' (Preferences>Advanced>General) to the music folder on your external HD and then use the 'Consolidate Library...' command from the Advanced menu in the menubar.
That copies all music to the 'iTunes Music folder' as set in the preferences.
It won't help now, but you can use this procedure next time.
It's also important to understand that when iTunes doesn't find the Library at startup, it will reset the 'iTunes Music folder' to the default location on the internal HD. Always connect your ext. HD before running iTunes.
Now to the possible rescue.
If the files are still on your ext. HD, you can use a script to restore the dead links.
Go to www.dougscripts.com and type 'dead' (without the quotes) in the 'search scripts:' field. Of the scripts that will be found, 'iTunes Track CPR v1.3' looks the logical choice to do the job.
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3 new Windwos 7 networked machines
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Would home sharing be better in some way?
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I have read that there may be corruption issues if users on the different machines try to access iTunes at the same time.
Will there be any issues syncing that various iPods with?
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Can the aTV read files from an iTunes library on my nas drive without my computer being on
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Quick spec on what's being used at the minute:
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