Original File Not Found Message

I just upgraded this week and now I am getting a message that my entire library is missing. Stranger yet, I have all my files on an external hard drive and I'm having trouble locating them.
I'm kind of baffled ... I have two iTunes library files in my iTunes folder and two older ones in my "past libraries" folder.

You need to give a bit more information.
Did you have your iTunes folder containing the library database - iTunes Library.itl on the internal disk or the external disk?
Have you established for sure if your actual music files are still where they should be?
If you music files are still there on the external drive and your iTunes folder is on the internal disk, it may just be a matter of setting the location of your iTunes Music folder with Edit>>Preferences>>Advanced>>General. But without more info I can't tell for sure if this is the issue.

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Original files not found, please help.

I am running iTunes 8.0.1.11, and I have about 11.5 gigs or so of music. Today I fired up iTunes and started skimming through songs like I often do, only to start playing a song and have the "original file not found" message pop up. I took a deeper look, and the majority of my 3200 songs show this message. There is no common factor between these songs, some are from the iTunes Store, some are from CD's, and some are from various mp3 services. In some cases, a few of the songs from a CD are missing, while others are present. Under "iTunes Music" in "My Music", the music folders (ie "Linkin Park") are present, but it appears that all the music has been deleted from in them.
I am a little miffed at this, because I had quite a few rare albums and EPs in my collection, and none of them were backed up.
Is there any way to get them back? Perhaps the file paths were changed? I hope that the music is still on the HD somewhere, and that I don't have to hunt down all these albums again. Any help would be great.

Sadly, I've been looking around for around an hour for an answer to this problem, yet to just waste time.
I have the same problem and can't find an obvious way to fix it. Nothing works without asking me to locate the file in my music folders. On my iPhone I have roughly 35-40 artists listed, on iTunes I have 9 that are listed in the music folder, only about 15 of my 349 songs work. Sadly, I can't update my iPhone until this is fixed, thank goodness for the wall charger! I've noticed that it made the songs that were "Un-checked" go missing and the "Checked" songs are perfectly fine!
This problem has been around for ages, this happened to me like a year ago on a different version of iTunes. Yet, I haven't seen APPLE mention anything about it, at least acknowledge it! If I find an answer I won't waste anytime and will post it immediately, but as for now APPLE <insert phrase>(I'm going to use the phrase 'is lazy')!
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Also I would like to add that it seems like my songs have disappeared from my HDD, amazingly! That or they have been moved somewhere else. I originally had the songs on my old dell, copied the songs to my new HDD for my new PC. Then that HDD went bad, so I moved it to my other HDD, so I have back-ups.

Original File Not Found

I noticed after upgrading iTunes to the latest version that I am now getting the exclamation point and the error original file not found for over 70 CDs that I had in iTunes. These CDs were imported from my CD collection and the thing that I am finding is that not all tracks are deleted from every CD. The files are however also being deleted from my hard drive - when I do a search for the file it isn't found. I noticed when I import the CD again that the songs that are being deleted originally imported with different ID info (for example the album orginally said Disc 1 of 3 and now it says Disc 1.) I didn't change any of the ID info, but it seems that only songs with different ID info are being lost. It is like something is looking up the names in the background and deleting everything that doesn't match. Can someone tell me why this is happening and what I can do to keep this from happening in the future? Sorry for the long post.

I often get the same message, although mine is for a different reason I believe! I had Itunes on my H drive instead of my C drive at first and ran out of room very quickly, I moved it to my C drive and copied all the songs over to a new library, but now when I want to play them, I get the same thing as you described! ?

I have lightroom 5.7 and a macbook pro 10.9.5. Occasionally when I am editing a photo in the develop module, I suddenly get a "file not found" message and the editing ceases to work. There is no "exclamation" icon below the histogram box in the Library

I have lightroom 5.7 and a macbook pro 10.9.5. Occasionally when I am editing a photo in the develop module, I suddenly get a "file not found" message and the editing ceases to work. There is no "exclamation" icon below the histogram box in the Library module or on the photo in grid view, and the histogram is gone. What is going on? Trying to find it using the "find missing photos" in the library menu does nothing.

'Error loading plugin: Plugin file not found' message on ONLY 5 sites, but all others OK. Help, please!

Hi Again!
I posted this problem here before, but since I really need to access the sites that receive this error message in less than a month, I had to re-post; hopefully someone who didn't see it before will see it & have a solution for me.
Here are the details: I'm running windows 8.1 & I use Firefox 33.1.1, Pale Moon 25.1.0 or Opera 26.0 as my browsers, (I have IE installed & up-to-date, but I never use it). I followed the 10-point checklist on Adobe & everything was done, except for "uncheck Hardware Acceleration" in Flash 'Settings'; I tried to uncheck it on this site, where it's indicated, as well as in my 4 browsers when I'm doing something that uses Flash, but no matter how hard I try, I can't 'uncheck' the check mark in that tiny box! Since this error problem only affects 5 web sites, & I can watch streaming media on all other sites, I don't think it's an issue.
Here's how this problem began: I was watching a live, streaming nest-cam on 5/09/14 around 11:00AM, (yes, I DO know the exact time & date, because it happened so suddenly while I was watching this website that I'd been watching since the end of February, 2014), when my screen went black. I thought it was probably an Adobe Crash, but when the usual Crash Report window didn't show up, I just closed Firefox & reopened it, expecting to resume watching the nest-cam. When I went back to the site, I got the black screen with the "Error loading plugin: Plugin file not found" message. The chat portion on the site still works, though. I know there are other sites with this nest-cam feed, so I started trying them, but it took several tries for me to find one that didn't get the error message! I posted this problem on "Windows BBS" forum, & someone else posted that the same thing happened to them AND on the same sites! They didn't have a solution, either. I cleared my cache, rebooted my PC & even did a System Restore, but whatever happened in that brief second made using ONLY 5 sites impossible. Here are the sites that receive the error message:
http://pixcontroller.com/eagles, (but I CAN go to http://pixcontroller.com, but there isn't any streaming media)
http://cbslocal.com/eagles
http://westmorelandconservancy.org/BlueBirdwebcam-1.htm
http://wildearth.tv/cam/pittsburgh-bald-eagles, (I get the error message on ALL cams on this site)
http://aviary.org/BE-NestCam1 (I get the error message on ALL cams on this site)
Now if any videos from the 5 websites above are uploaded to YouTube, I can watch them perfectly...no error message if I watch the videos elsewhere. Luckily, I found Ustream, & they have most of the nest cams I watch, but I need to fix this issue, because it's nearing nesting time! I'm an amateur nest-watcher & it's vital that I have access to these 5 sites, so if anyone knows how to fix this, PLEASE tell me!
Thanks for taking the time to read my post.
All suggestions/solutions are gratefully accepted.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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File Not Found Error in Welcome Screen
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Tags: #dreamweaver_cs6_update
Help please!
Live preview also not working.
I have exactly the exact problem described below but do not have a folder with the same name as the volume created under the volume. Please can someone help - I've tried everything. This problem only happened when I upgraded to Dreaweaver CC!
"On launching Dreamweaver on your Macintosh if your Welcome Screen is not loading and if you see a "File not found" error, please check if you have a folder with the same name as your volume created under the volume. For more info on this please go through the attached pdf document. Other dialogs/panels in dreamweaver that will be blank due to this issue are Jquery Swatches panel, Adobe Edge Webfonts tab in Manage Fonts dialog,W3c Error Info dialog, Externalise Javascript dialog and svn revert dialog. After following the changes mentioned in the attached document please check all the affected dialogs/panels to confirm everything is working as expected."
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!File Not Found message

My itunes does not connect to the underlying music files on my external drive. When I try to play, I get the dreaded exclamation point and "file not found" message for all. While I could click on each of the 10,000+ songs and reassociate the file to the location on my external drive manually, this would take forever. So I am looking for a way to reassociate all at once.
How it happened: I am not sure. But when I went to check the settings, it showed that somehow it had restored the default location of my files to the C drive, instead of the F drive (where my external drive is located with the files).
What I did: I changed the setting back to the F drive as the location of the music files. I thought that would do it, but unfortunately the error message still appears. I surveyed the support boards last night on Apple.com before I got too tired and couldn't find anything exactly on point.
My concern: While at last resort, I could back up all my files and then attempt to drop and drag my whole library into Itunes again, I will lose all my many playlists and the play count. This information is important to me. How can I preserve it?

There is a support article HERE that discusses moving your iTunes music folder (which is pretty much what you are trying to do). I''m not sure what will happen when you run the "consolidate library" since there is nothing actually there to move.
There's also some documentation in the iTunes help file under "Changing where your iTunes files are stored."
A last resort would be to edit the itunes library.xml file (after making a copy of it). I did this a while ago when I wanted to get rid of the drive letter designation and replace it with UNC (my music sits on a networked drive).
By the way, are you sure Windows is still reporting the drive as "F:"? If Windows has changed the letter, iTunes will revert the default location to My Music\iTunes until the drive is "fixed."
Good luck.
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Suddenly I'm getting "out of memory" & "file not found" messages

in the last 2 days I have started getting, first, "file not found" messages @ autosave and also quit ... thereby preventing me from saving my changes .. I tried to "save project as" but the program wouldn't let me .. with the same message. Then an hour or so later my canvas window went red with a card that said "out of memory ... free up .. and it will redraw"
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Hi Chocolade1972,
>> Does the comparison i'm doing is right ? I want to compare one list index against other listi ndex.
I think you could use “Object.Equals” and the link below might be useful to you:
# Object.Equals Method (Object)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bsc2ak47(v=vs.110).aspx
>> OutOfMemoryException: Out of memory
This error is very common, and when there is not enough memory to continue the execution of a program, it would be thrown.
It would be helpful if you could provide us a simple code to reproduce your issue.
Best Regards,
Edward
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Hello-i get a "FILE NOT FOUND" message when i use some (not all) of ebay motors. i can send a copy of the message (quite long)

here is a copy opf the "FILE NOT FOUND" message iget. I am trying to open a listing for a car (not a part-it works there) and after the listing opens, it changes to this message. it is coming with "chrome" as the http heading
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Recording error File not found message?

I am trying to record onto an audio track in logic. When I push the record button a error message comes up: File not found result code-43??
What does THAT mean? As long as I have a audio track selected, nothing works. I push play,..same error message. When I select any othe track besides an audio track, it works fine. Any ideas?

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When I try to play a song in Itunes, it says that original file no found. I have no changed anything in my setting and checked the file path in itunes properties and it is correct. Additionally, when I try to play files directly by clicking on them in the itunes files, it says an application can't be found. The files are m4a files. I was able to get them to play outside of itunes by manully setting quicktime as the application to play them, but they still don't play in itunes. Any help would be much appreciateted.

I often get the same message, although mine is for a different reason I believe! I had Itunes on my H drive instead of my C drive at first and ran out of room very quickly, I moved it to my C drive and copied all the songs over to a new library, but now when I want to play them, I get the same thing as you described! ?

When I attempt to load a new webpage, I receive a "File not Found" message, then multiple new tabs open with the same message; additional browsers pop up with same message. This happens when attempting to load any page. I've unloaded Firefox once already.

File not found
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"Original file not found" error after copying from removable hard drive

ok, I have all my itunes library on a removable hard drive, and I want to copy it all to my new computer. so, I plugged the hard drive in, copied all the files into itunes, and when I played one of them, it worked. then, I tried to play it again, but an error message came up saying "The song 'Re-hash'could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like tyo locate it?" and I clicked 'Yes'. then a browser came up, where i could select either the files itunes music, itunes library, or itunes music library. none of them work. help please?

This worked although it was very clumsy (we had almost 3,000 files that had to be deleted and redownloaded. I could not figure out a way to sort all of the 'exclamation points' together so it took an hour or so to scan through the entire library list and delete each file individually and/or in small groups.) The download was very straight forward. In my experience (with iTunes match turned on,) we did NOT loose our playcounts.
Going through all those files I noticed several common themes that may have triggered the problem: 1) multiple artists, 2) special characters in the song title, artist and/or album name - particularly umlauts (we have quite a few german songs in our library.) 3) very long title, artist and/or album names.
I hope that someone from Apple is aware of these issues and working on them....

Music files not found message

I have downloaded all my purchased music on my new mac but when I try to listen to anything I get a message that original files can't be found. I've downloaded iTunes again and still doesn't work. Any advice?

I did a restore on an ipod (due to syncing problems w/stupid 7.7 upgrade) and it deleted all but 24 songs on my itunes library. It lists all the songs but like the original poster, it has an '!' in front of the title, says the 'original could not be found' and I cannot locate the files anywhere on my computer.
I've asked this question about 5 times now -- why would doing a restore on an ipod delete songs from my itunes library? How does this happen? And more importantly, WHEN IS APPLE GOING TO FIX THIS 7.7 PROBLEM WE ARE ALL HAVING???

Original files not found

Trying to free up space for more downloads, I dragged my iTunes folder over to my external hard drive. Now several (that's an understatement) files are not available because the original files can't be located. Using Time Machine, I restored the computer but the files still cannot be located. Please help!

Make sure your iTunes folder is intact and has everything you need for a library
What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
In particular make sure it looks like the examples below:
Image of iTunes folder structure Dec. 2011 - https://discussions.apple.com/message/16923545
see also:
Image of folder structure and explanation of different iTunes versions (turingtest2 post) - https://discussions.apple.com/message/13025536 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/17457605
This can be placed on either the internal or external drive, but it must be a complete package and not pieced together by dragginf items from different places.
If you have a complete package you can try starting iTunes, doing the option key thing as indicated earlier.

Error: "the song...could not be used because the original file not found"?

Has anyone seen and resolved the issue from this error: "The song...could not be used because the original file could not be found"?
Thank you for your help

Yes, with no luck ... But I'm not exactly a computer tech. I searched with spotlight with no results.

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