With no backup & vainless searches as suggested by you yielding no results, it looks absolutely very bleak.
Paul On 18/03/2012, at 3:49 PM, cm wrote: > Hi Paul, > > OK. Just in Finder have a quick look in your home directory at the following > location. Let's say your home directory is "paul". Navigate to > > paul/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music > > and see if it is populated with directories that have the name of groups and > artists. > > As an important aside, do you have a backup of any sort in place? > > Cheers, > Carlo > > On 18/03/2012, at 15:28 , Paul Chong wrote: > >> Hi Carlo, thanks for your prompt & kind attention. >> I mean the ENTIRE iTune Library all wiped away. I had not used the >> external drive yet. >> Regards >> Paul >> >> >> On 18/03/2012, at 2:41 PM, cm wrote: >> >>> Hi Paul, >>> >>> When you say your favourite tunes have disappeared do you mean your entire >>> iTunes library or only those in a favourites playlist of some sort? Also >>> was your iTunes library on the 1Tb external drive? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Carlo >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On 18/03/2012, at 14:11, Paul Chong <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear WAMUG, >>>> I used to be around before in the 1990s & thought I have learnt >>>> sufficiently enough to be on my own. >>>> That would be furthest from the truth. One can never claim to know it all >>>> to stand alone. There are always >>>> that require more heads. So here I am. >>>> >>>> Knowledge sharing is a two-way traffic & I hope to be able to contribute >>>> as well. >>>> >>>> I am using Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 with an external drive of 1,000GB. >>>> >>>> I had a whole library of iTune songs & music built & collected over a >>>> period of years. >>>> >>>> My problem started when I installed the new iLife 2011 because the >>>> capacity of my iPhoto was running low. >>>> Without warning all my favourites tunes in the iTune disappeared. I >>>> searched everywhere without any avail. >>>> >>>> What could have happened? Anyone please help & advise. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Paul >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
