My iTunes original files are floating around on a localhost

My songs are listed, but I can not play them. I am told orginal file can not be found. When I search for them on my computer, they are NOT THERE. I have been working on this for a week now. I finally noticed if I right click on a song, eventually I can get a window with artwork etc for most of them, and the location starts with file/localhost/users/Ingrid/ etc. So does this mean my music, the majority of which was imported straight from my purchased cd collection is floating around on the internet? I will be getting my new iphone soon and when I do, I don't see how I will be able to transfer all my music to my new phone. Pretty upsetting, and I have no idea how this happened. I appreciate any help you can offer!

This is going to depend on how you have your DAQ board configured. In differential mode, the positive input is channel 0, but the negative input is channel 8 (for 8 differential/16 single ended MIO boards. Channel 32 is - on 32 differential/64 single ended MIO boards). (Similarly, chan 1 (+) and chan 9 (-) are the next channels, etc).
For single ended mode, chan 0 is the +, and AIGND is the -.
I suspect you have your board in differential mode, and your - is not connected to the correct pin; therefore, your voltage is floating.
Mark

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Try deleting those missing tracks from your computer's iTunes, connect the iPad to your computer and do File > Transfer Purchases - that should copy them back from the iPod

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Hm ... I guess I can't edit the post above. Anyway, I seem to have solved it by ...
Quitting iTunes.
Going into Home / Music / iTunes, and renaming the file "iTunes Library.itl" to "iTunes Library (corrupt).itl".
Entering Time Machine, and restoring the "iTunes Library.itl" file from a few days ago. I went back two days, which seemed far enough back to be "before" the problem but not far enough back to have trouble with recent acquisitions.
Re-opening iTunes - and everything seemed to be back in order.
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ITUNE Original Files, I need help !!

I can no longer view the purchases I made from itunes or listen to music I've previously downloaded, it keeps giving a message of " Original File Not Found" all help appreciated.
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iTunes will not be able to find the original file if it has been either deleted, moved to a different location or renamed outside of iTunes. Are any of these possible?
Other than that, I would point out that you've posted on the iTunes for Windows side of these boards and although for the most part we're a pretty nice bunch of people here - if I do say so myself - generally speaking you'll be better off if you post your question over on the iTunes for Mac side.
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You would need to download iTunes on comp and download purchases again (you don't have to pay again) and upload your CDs again IF you sync your iPad to your computer it will erase everything

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iTunes 11 is rapidly becoming a disaster for me. I have a dedicated Windows 7 machine running iTunes to service 3 Apple TV's, 2iPhones, 2iPods, and an iPad. Itunes 11 is very sluggish with my large library and has now started 'losing' files to the cloud. This means that music I purchased in 2005 is being removed from my library and subsequently seems to become available as a ne cloud download. This may well be because I convert all ACC files to MP3 and delete the ACC (my ears are too old to care about the reduction in quality). Either way, it's detrsoying my playlists and means I have to re-download files.
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...and none of my media is pirated. I have crates of vinyl, CD's,DVD's, and Blu-Rays along with thousands of iTunes store receipts!

ITunes Plus files are skipped

I've updated most of my iTunes purchases to iTunes plus and I saw the same long processing time that others saw. Mine all finished OK though. However some of them now will not play in iTunes and are just skipped over.
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I also found that if I skipped the first second of the file (using iTunes->Get info->options) then the file played. Weird! Support let me download again and the latest copies were exactly the same. In the end they gave me a credit.
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My voltage input reading are floating around and cant seem to get an accurate reading of any kind. What is causing this?

Im trying to input a DC voltate on channel 1. So i hook up +5 to the channel 1 analog input, and hook up ground to the AIGND. When i measure it in continous time, i get a reading of -1.3 V, when i move the cable connecting the NI board and the DAQ, the voltage jumps around. I even tried connecting AIGND straight to channel 1 analog input, and read a voltage of 2.3, but its not stable, it jumps around a lot. What is this problem. please help

This is going to depend on how you have your DAQ board configured. In differential mode, the positive input is channel 0, but the negative input is channel 8 (for 8 differential/16 single ended MIO boards. Channel 32 is - on 32 differential/64 single ended MIO boards). (Similarly, chan 1 (+) and chan 9 (-) are the next channels, etc).
For single ended mode, chan 0 is the +, and AIGND is the -.
I suspect you have your board in differential mode, and your - is not connected to the correct pin; therefore, your voltage is floating.
Mark

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