PLEASE HELP-iTunes has lost my previous library

and i cant find it again! ive looked through the folder where the old libraries are but whenever i open them it just opens the same one. i have lost my most recent (and up to date) library. Any suggestions?? would be much appreciated

I archive files I don't use frequently. To facilitate this I like a docking station. It lets you take a bare drive (= no enclosure, just the drive alone which is cheaper) and place them on top for temporary use and fast swapping. I have an older Voyageur from OWC. I have several bare drives for things such as home movies and photos which I don't need at an instant's notice all the time. I also have another bare drive for backup. The main drawback is it's too easy to not be diligent about attaching the drive for backup, particularly if you're used to time Machine doing your backups constantly during the day.
If I were shopping for an external drive with enclosure I would again look at getting the components separately. For example, Seagate backup drives are popular, but the last time I looked at sites with tons of reviews (such as Newegg) Seagate was rated badly. 10 years ago they were top of the line, so you have to stay on top of things. I would again look at the OWC line (prices okay and they specifically support Macs) and get an enclosure I liked, and then buy a drive I trusted (right now I have several 1TB Western Digital blues -- again from reading online ratings). We were in an Apple Store recently and pondered a Time Capsule but nobody could tell me what drive was inside so I kind of went off the idea in case it was a lemon.

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