Songs need locating... but I can't locate them
Alright. I had about 4 gigs of mp3s, which came directly from itunes, on an external harddrive. Put them on my new laptop, which I'd just set up with itunes. Copied them over, which took an suspiciously short amount of time, and they all showed up in the itunes window as smooth and pretty as a guy could hope. A while later I tried to listen to some of them, and I got the 'file can't be located, would you like to locate it?" message. Now, all the song titles show in itunes, and everytime I restart the program, the exclamation points have disappeared, it all looks great again, but none of the songs are there. So I looked in the folder where my library music should be, it has all the music I copied directly from cds, but none of the music I'd imported from the external harddrive. I've searched everything I can in every way I can think of, but the music doesn't seem to be anywhere. Nonetheless itunes says it's got 4 gigs of music, and my laptop harddrive says those 4 gigs are indeed taken up. But where's the music!!
I have copied in music from cd's before and since copying from the external drive, and everything's going great with those. Thanks for your time.
If copying the files took a suspiciously shoort time, are you sure that they were copied?
If you do not have "Copy to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" checked in Edit>>Preferences>>Advanced>>General, then files are left where they are and their loaction is stored in the library.
If this is what happened, your music would play when the external drive is plugged in, but not when it isn't.
If you find this is what happened, you can simply consolidate your library when the external drive is plugged in. (Advanced menu).
This copies files that are not in the iTunes Music folder into it.
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