Oh. I guess the id3 tags are different somehow, what if you just relocate and tell iTunes where the music lib folder is. Ill attempt to reproduce ur issue when I am at home. What os and itunes version do you have?
Sent from my iPhone On 7 aug 2010, at 16:32, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Nicklas Mikkelinen wrote: >> Could you explain your setup to me or verify if I've understood it right? >> >> You had your iTunes folder in ~/Music. >> You also had a Time Machine backup. >> The computers internal harddrive crashed (or got deleted in some way or >> another) >> The Time Machine backup also failed. >> You have a clone of your entire ~ at another location. >> You moved your iTunes folder to your current computer back to the original >> location and replaced everything? >> In this case I see no issues with this, perhaps ACL (Boot to install disc -> >> Reset Password Utility -> Press 'Reset') then boot back into OS again and it >> should work, but this is highly unlikely. >> >> Please let me know if I've understood it all correctly. > > not quite. > > all iTunes media (but not library *file*) on a disk named 500. Also on 500, > my TM back-up. No way I have enough space for my iTunes folder on my laptop > these days (would fill the internal disk easy) > > I had a clone of 500 called (surprise) 500backup. > > 500 has completely died. While completely not in use (computer shut down at > the time). blah, so much for Seagate portables. > > plugging in 500 backup and renaming it 500 has left Tm working fine, but > iTunes doesn't see the files in their locations, even though the path is > correct. Sending it manually to a handful of the files triggered about 10% > being found but not the rest (huh?) > > The laptop and OS etc are fine, apparently. I can work with the xml export > and change the path with BBEdit then delete the library file contents, then > import. I've done it before. It's probably less hassle than anything else > right now... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
