Restore hard drive to condition three days ago
I bought an external hard drive to store iTune audio and videos. The person who was allegedly walking me through the process to move the files to the G-drive led me to a hosed mess. As in, the tunes are in randomly created folders of randomly selected tunes on the G-drive. None of which are displayed in the iTune app. a Mac minis o/s 10.6.8. The external hard drive is G-Tech 1TB G-DRIVE mobile USB 3.0 Hard Drive (5400 rpm) - Special Edition.
There is not a Restore app in the Utilities folder. I can manually resort the tunes but I'm hoping there is a quicker way.
Walk me through the process you followed, it may help to understand the mess.
1. Do you have a backup?
2. Is your iTunes Library still on your internal drive or did you just go for it.
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