Please help this Mac newbie
I just got my first Mac two days ago. I bought a duo core iMac used off eBay. I love it so far, and I felt I got a good deal as the guy I bought it off of left his whole iTunes library for me to enjoy.
Anyway after I uploaded all my cds into iTunes I updated the firmware, as it had kept popping everytime I logged back into Mac OSX.
After doing so I was shocked to find that my iTunes library and all my personal settings in firefox etc... were gone!
All the files are still there but I was wondering why this happened, and if there was way I could just roll back te update or something (I think thats what they call it in Windows). Or if there was an easy way to get my same iTunes library back, as there are many duplicate folders and cds on here for some reason.
Thanks for any help
gter you double click on your hard drive icon you will see a little house at the top that says "home" click on that and you will see a music folder. Click on that and you will see an iTunes folder. Click on that and you will see an iTunes music folder. Click on that and you will see all your music songs. I've found out where my songs are that have an exclamation point by them. I open the library window and drag that song and plop it in it's appropriate place in my library. Then I delete the exclamation pointed song. Now, there must be a way to take them all at once and stick them in your library. Maybe u just drag the folder iTunes music and plop it down in your empty library window. Anyone know?
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On Edit: Which screen glossy or flat? I'm truly not sure which is better for his needs.
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Don't laugh at me ( if you do, be really quiet about it!)
Here's the deal: Out of fear of losing photos, I have made a monster out of my iphoto library. It now takes up 34GB of space on my MacBook Pro. There are duplicates in there and well, it's a mess. (I have ghost images of some photos, for example).
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2. What's the best way to back it up.
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Any help would be appreciated before my MBP with 1.99 GB left crashes.
Help this grandma out! I love Macs but I don't use them properly. Happy Holidays! Mrs. P.Mrs. P
You've got a nice project to keep you busy over the xmas!
1. You MUST first make space on the disk - you're in immediate danger of a very serious OS crash if you don't. The fastest way to do this is to move the iPhoto Library Folder to an external disk:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library Folder as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
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Regards
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