Lost: Finding the missing in iTunes

By Eliot Van Buskirk, CNET.com on 23 June 2006

If you reorganise the music on your hard drive, iTunes will lose sight of your tracks and never play them again. We show you how to find the missing songs.

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Comments (14)

  • cider_boy commented on 22/03/2007 08:17 Report abuse

    this method sucks! you loose all your playlists!! - must be a better way of doing things?

  • Michael Joyeux commented on 03/01/2007 21:28 Report abuse

    Surely there must be a way of doing this without losing play counts and ratings, I've been running iTunes now for almost three years and still have all my ratings and play counts, something which I'd be loathed to get rid of and strat from stratch, in addition to Hundreds of Playlists.

  • ToddPod commented on 25/08/2006 20:50 Report abuse

    I believe this is BAD ADVICE! If you need to tell the user to first start Itunes, then you should really have steps to show them HOW TO COPY THEIR ITUNES FOLDER TO THE NEW LOCATION. If a newbie simply follows the instructions above ( as the previous poster seems to have, unfortunately) you are simply just deleting your itunes library! Shame on you! The least you should do is link to advice on how to copy the Itunes Library to another locations whilst keeping the existing library intact. I expect better from an authority like Cnet.

  • john commented on 16/08/2006 08:00 Report abuse

    Your story seems like a good plan but I am running itunes six when this happened and forsome reason it just deletes the song and I do not know where it went please help me!

    ASAP! please

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