Timemachine does not backup all my files

Hello,
I have a macbook pro 13 inch early 2011. I use an external hard drive for timemachine backup. A couple of months ago my hard drive broke and I restored my time machine backup. Unfortunately a lot of files were missing, mainly random songs from my itunes. Itunes still listed the songs but could not find them. When I went into the itunes media folder the folders where the songs should be in were still there but empty. So I checked my timemachine backup, looked like Timemachine never backed up them. After a lot of hard work I managed to get most of my stuff back from around.
But now when I backup with timemachine, and I look in the folder in my time machine the itunes folder is 20 gigs smaller than it should be. So again it is not backing up all my files. The folders are not on the excluded list. Does someone know a solution to this problem
Hewitje1991

It is a nasty bug of OSX 10.9 and 10.10 . Some workaround is described here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/170219/time-machine-is-skipping-files-a nd-folders-how-to-fix/170336#170336 by Pete.

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