Terrible External Hard Drive Fiasco

Question

First, let it be clear that no files are missing. I have all of my music files and movie files and TV show files -- everything still exists. The problem is, is that I copied them all onto an external hard drive a while back when I identified it as my iTunes Media Folder location. Now, somehow, this problem didn't happen back then -- or maybe it did, and I solved it somehow. I forget. But since then, I had readjusted my iTunes Media Folder as back to its default location. But recently, I re-plugged in the external hard drive, wanting to add on some extra music I'd added to my iTunes since then. I made the terrible error of going to preferences, and switching once again my iTunes Media Folder location to the external hard drive -- and tried to organize my library again, like last time. Terrible, terrible mistake. iTunes started recopying everything, not only the newly added files, and re-identified all the music in my library's location to the new corresponding files in the external hard drive. So essentially, iTunes now thinks half of all my music is on the external hard drive, and the only way I can seem to be able to bring that back is by removing the external hard drive, double clicking on the missing music files and manually finding the corresponding file again on the iTunes Music folder on the mac. My question is, is there an easier way to fix iTunes such that it corresponds the Library once again to the iTunes Music folder, rather than the external itunes music folder on the external hard drive? I changed the iTunes Media Folder location back to default, but that's not the problem -- or at least it's not the solution to the problem, since the problem persists. Any help?

Answer 1

Click on the Repair Disk button with that disk selected in the Disk Utility; if the Disk Utility cannot repair it, an utility such as TechTool Pro or DiskWarrior might be able to, or you can try using Data Rescue to recover data from the drive without repairing any errors.
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