itunes catastrophe

[redheadedlawyer]

so. i moved all my music to my external hard drive, because i was almost out of space on my laptop. however, when i started my laptop up without the external attached, it reset the edit/preferences/advances pointing to the itunes folder on the e drive back to the c drive, so all the music files had exclamation points. i reset itunes to the e

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[manufracture]

argh, that sucks! i know iTunes on Mac pretty well, but i'm not sure how well it translates to PC. i could try to give you a hand some night this week.

[redheadedlawyer]

oh my goodness, david that would be awesome! i'm not completely ignorant myself (although this post suggests otherwise), but maybe between the two of us, i can... minimize the losses.

what's your evening look like? i'll be finding out what the rest of my week looks like (as far as work goes) today after i see the doctor. i'll touch base with you this afternoon. :-)

[lilmartha2]

If you haven't already, check the Livejournal iPod forum:http://community.livejournal.com/ipod/
and the Apple website:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/

Remember that your playlists are just bookmarks or shortcuts, they don't represent actual music.

[lilmartha2]

I had to re-create my iTunes library once
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93313[OLD: and I lost all my playlists. I was able to write them down looking at my iPod and then build them again. After that I followed the instructions at
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93763 to back up my playlists.] Just remember that the library is a database, it's not the songs themselves.

NEW: the newest versions of iTunes allow you to re-create both the iTunes library AND the playlists.