Screwed up itunes

hi...
Long and short: I had an external hard drive with all my music on it, it died. I was able to pull a few things off of it including my itunes folder with my itunes music library and a folder containing a the few tunes I could salvage. Anyhow, I opened my itunes, redirected the link to the new location of the itunes folders, and all was right with the world. I could play the few tunes I salvaged and began building the library again. Today I got a new external drive to put my music on it again, and I copied the itunes folder over to it and dumped the original folder, and tried opening itunes, finding it wouldn't open. The program acts as if it's going to open, and shows a menu bar for a few seconds, but then ball spin and when I look at the finder window, its says the program is active, but yet I can't seem to access it in any way. I have to force quit it from the forece quit menu to get it to stop, then with out doing anything, the program, turns itself back on, but yet is unaccessible. YIKES!!!! DANG program. Is there some preference file I can throw out or something to make the program open so I can direct it to the new location of the itunes folder?

Another thing you can try is starting from scratch. When you open iTunes, hold down the option key. A littlel dialog box will pop up asking if you want to select a different itunes library or start a new one. Start a new one (it will walk you through the process), go to preferences and make sure that under the Advanced menu that you have "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" checked, and then manually drag all your song files into the main iTunes window. You will lose any playlists you have, as well as any ratings or playcounts, but all the music will be there and work fine. After iTunes finishes importing all of your music, delete where it was stored (it will be in the new library folder) and you will be fine.

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If history is anything to go by the pre-orders go live at midnight PST on the 12th. So 3am EST and 8am GMT.

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Ok, so I re-formatted my hard drive and re-installed osx without realizing that I hadn't saved my songs and my aperture library file. At least i have my 10,000+photos on my external drives in a nice folder structure!
Here's the catch - I had all songs and apps on my iphone and ipad - when i upgraded to iOS5 on the phone, I lost it all becuase i had to re-sync the phone wiht the computer -
now i have all my songs and apps on the ipad, but I am still missing my purchased music content. I have a record of my purchases in the itunes store account section, but how can i get this stuff off the ipad and then sync to my computer/phone? Anyone? Bueller, Bueller, Bueller?
Okay mac geniuses and work-arounders, I need some good ideas -
I did download and use a program called Senuti to get my songs off the ipad, but for some reason it wouldn't copy the purchased content and woudln't copy the apps.
Good luck! I'm ready and waiting for all ideas, and A HUGE thank you in advance for all your help!
Sincerely,
Mr. Should-have-backed-up-better-but-it-was-3-in-the-morning-and-i-don't-function-w ell-without-sleep

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hey guys and gals, i really need help. i've been trying to fix my iTunes software for months now. Without further ado, here's what happened:
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installed quicktime
installed itunes
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installed and reinstalled multiple times from both the c.d. and itunes.com
Therefore, when i attempt to open my itunes program, the dialoge box stating, "iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Send error report, dont send."
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we do not intentionally collect your files, name, address, email address or any other form of personally identifiable information. however, the error report could contain coustomer- specific information such as data from open files. while this information could potentially be used to determine your idenity, if present, it will not be used. the data that we collected will only be used to fix the problem. if more information is available, we will tell you when you report the problem. this error report will be sent using a secure connection to a database with limited access and will not be used for marketing purposes."
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uhh, okay
these wernt present in my add/remove programs list. but itunes was.
"Uninstall iPod Updater
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gnawirneh wrote:
I looked around and tried all these different things, but no luck at all. When I connect the Macbook Pro and Macbook with an Ethernet Cable, it says Error Code (-3150). So does this mean I have to purchase EVERY SINGLE SONG AGAIN?!?!? If that is so, I will not do it, could anyone please help me? Thanks!!!
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Is it possibly because I also have a program called iPod Access which helps ne to backtrack the songs?
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What does "backtrack the songs" mean?

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Keeps doing it.
Keeps doing it.
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<Edited by Moderator>

Hi did you note the minimum system requirements to use iTunes 8 and to play the HD versions of shows? In an earlier post you had your system software listed as 10.4.8 and as 10.4.11 so make sure your software is up to date and meets minimum requirements. Also regarding the HD versions of the show "Playing HD-quality videos purchased on the iTunes Store requires a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster processor". If you can't find it on your computer it may be because you can't play it.
check this page: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
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Mac OS 10.4.9 or later
Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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Macintosh Hardware
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Hello everyone,
I figured since other folks might run into this issue that it's worth posting about, since it's both annoying, irritating, and none of the Apple support hints address it properly ...
If you're one of those folk like me who has to deal with corporate proxies for pretty much everything while at work, but don't have any local proxy issues at home, you might use something called Proxifier.
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