Missing playlists after transfer? Here's 1 solution

I was just helping a friend of mine with a common issue I've seen on the boards: the loss of playlists after a transfer from another computer. In this case, it was files moved from an old PC to a new iMac -- the music transferred, but the playlists were missing. Not wanting to start over from scratch, I found a quick solution for her:
http://www.podtomac.com/
This is a free app that allows you to sync music and other content from an iPod/iPhone back onto your Mac -- including playlists. Luckily, my friend had all of her playlists represented on her iPod so this was fairly easy. The app has a setting (turned on by default in the prefs) to only "reference" files that are already on the iMac, meaning that it would not re-copy songs and therefore avoid duplicates. We plugged in the iPod, hit sync in the app and it transferred all of her playlists back into iTunes. Like buttah.
Notice I said "free"; if you wind up using this app to save the headache of reconstructing your whole iTunes playlist catalog, maybe throw the guys a few bucks, eh?
HTH, JK

Found them! They were in the folder that wouldn't let me open it. To get permission I had to go to the folder and get info, then change the permissions.

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