Play lists lost porting from XP machine to Win8 machine

Lost my ipod. Trying to port itunes to new computer. Playlists were lost. Can't get to customer support cuz don't have serial number. Never backed up device and also never registered it. How to get to support?

You won't see anything if you examine the .itl database file, unlike the .xml it ins't human readable, but if the library is still in a working state on the original machine then review the way that you copied it and compare with my migrate iTunes library post. It should be possible to copy over the library files again to bring your library data across with playlists, ratings, play counts etc.
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A whole lot about Time Machine for help with TM problems. Also you can select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "time machine" to locate articles on how to use TM. See also Mac 101- Time Machine.

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I've lost some Events from a Time Machine backup and I'm pretty sure that I'm never going to get them back but I wondered if anyone else has had this experience and whether you were able to explain what happened. I want to make sure it doesn't happen again.
I regularly make time machine backups, and last year the following happened:
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30 August 2012 - Import a new event to IPhoto
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I know the two events imported successfully because I used them to upload a select few photo's to FB and I also ordered a few from photobox.
This week I viewed the 19 October backup and the two events are missing, they are also missing from the September backup. I have noticed that both the iphoto backup files in Sep and Oct say last modified on 12 July 2012 which is a bit wierd.
I've tried TestDisk and PhotoRecovery, and also bought DiskDrill, I recovered over 60,000 jpegs but these two events have completely disappeared. I ran the software recovery on the MacBook HardDrive, the TimeMachine Harddrive and my camera. No luck on any of them.
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A couple of things as you note TM is not an archive system. It is a back up system and anything removed from the computer will eventually be removed from the backup
Also TM is not designed to be run occasionally. It should always be running doing hourly backups. Running it the way you do totally defeats it purpose and because each run has so many changes makes it much more likely to have problems are for you to lose track of what you have. Based on your dates I'm guessing that for some reason a number of your runs failed and you missed or ignored the failure notices
And note that TM could not delete an event. It could fail to complete a backup so the latest library is not backed up or it can delete so older library so old events go away but is can not parse the iPhoto library and remove an event
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hi. I have a good old MacBook. Around 6years I've owned it without it ever putting a foot wrong right up until a free upgrade to mavericks.
Having used mavericks for for a couple of weeks I was disappointed. everything had slowed down and it became very frustrating. (Why does apple give upgrades to machines that can't handle them?) I decided to go back to snow leopard. Oh wait, I can't downgrade! Thanks apple. So after looking at these forums I deleted the hard drive and reinstalled from my boot discs. Excellent I thought. I attached my time machine drive and went back to a date just prior to mavericks recover. Clicked restore. Waited for 3 hours to find basically nothing had restored. No music on itunes. No photos on iPhoto. And on and on. I decided to try again and use the option to restore from TM during the install. Got my log in screen. Thought bingo! Password rejected! What?!? It's the only password I ever used!! Read these forums. Got some advice. Tried again. Reset my password in disc utility. Got to the screen. Excellent. Logged in. Where are the photos. Where are the applications. Where is my music. Things like iPhoto iTunes FaceTime all greyed out. During all of this debacle on one attempt I had a message telling me time machine was full and it had to delete old back ups. fair enough. So now I check the TM drive and there are only 3 files. THREE!! There were hundreds before I started this debacle. One happens to be the one just before the upgrade so I thought that's ok. Still got everything I need.

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Now, here is another problem - I have also re-installed the bundled applications disc but I cannot use iPhoto, contacts, facetime,iTunes, iMovie. this I do not understand. Everything has been installed as intructed but the icons are grayed out with a circle with a line through it over them, I don't want to download iPhoto at cost as I already paid for it once.

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Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
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Services ▹ Reveal
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Go ▹ Go to Folder...
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I have had to restore OS X using a backup from time machine for resons I wont go into.
The backup was only from a few days previous, all seemed well but when i went into itunes I had gone from nearly 8000 tracks to less than 3000.
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I've installed mountain lion and restored from time machine and mail rules were not there. There's only news from apple.
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Comparing an old (pre ML) rules file from 20th June with the ML one, the differences are:
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Thus, just copying and renaming the old Rules file probably won't work, because of this difference. Mail probably just makes a new file because the copied file isn't as expected. It should be possible to edit the old plist file to remove the "Active" line, and rename it to SynchedRules.plist (but see below). The top is slightly different, just below <dict>, as this relates to the Active line. There are a couple of lines at the bottom that aren't in the new file.
The "Active" line that has gone is now in a file called RulesActiveState.plist. This file is just a list of RuleIds from the SynchedRules.plist (like this:
AC6F6611-FF61-4AA6-9682-BA100EFAC233)
Doing this does sound rather tedious, but might be quicker than manually re-entering blocked email addresses etc. to replicate old rules. As plist files are in xml format, it should be possible to use a text editor to delete the unwanted "Active" line from the message rules list by Find & Replace All (with nothing). All this could then be copied to the "SynchedRules.plist. You would need to copy the RuleIds into the RulesActiveState.plist as well.
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Friveros wrote:
When I import my music files to iTunes will I be creating new files for every file I import? If the answer is YES; where are those files going to be stored and how much space will they use?
To begin with you can't manage FLAC in iTunes. The use of iTunes is at this moment limited to WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless, AAC and MP3. But that's not a problem because if I understand you correctly you want to organize the MP3-files in iTunes.
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Got another computer and put the good drive from the old computer into the newer one as a slave.
I have itunes all set up but can't figure out were to get my play lists and cover art to get them to the new drive/program.
Bob

Hold shift when you launch iTunes. It will let you chose a library. Chose the one one the slave drive from your old computer and it will look just like it did when you last used it on the old one.
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Holtey wrote:
Not an option.
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