itunes catastrophe
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 drive and added the library folder. two copies of everything AND my playlists still didn't point to the individual music files (which was the major problem).
This morning, after doing some research and consulting(but not enough), without the e drive attached, i erased all the music in my library, planning to add it all back from the e drive. disastrously, this erased all the songs from my playlists so they are now empty.
omg. can someone please help me with this? my playlists are my life!
i have my most important playlists on my ipod, but two concerns: will floola copy the playlists as well as the music files? and i have this fear that i might have the ipod on auto sync. i've found instructions for turning auto-sync off (holding Ctrl + Shift when you plug in your iPod), but they are from 2004, and i don't know if it's changed.
i know this happens to people all the time, but i would like to have confirmation of what i'm doing from someone i KNOW who KNOWS what works.
:-(
and it gets worse.
i only erased my itunes library of music on my laptop drive (after copying it to the external), but now i'm realizing that that folder only had about half my music. which would have been ok, except now i erased my library. i have backed up my "my music" folder more than once, so i am hoping that most of the missing music is still on my external somewhere, but how to figure out whats there and what's not...
i also managed to erase the last batch of cd's i ripped from the library that i had not moved to the external. nothing irritates me more than my own stupidity!
erasing my library, just now, might very well be the dumbest thing i've ever done in my entire life.
This morning, after doing some research and consulting(but not enough), without the e drive attached, i erased all the music in my library, planning to add it all back from the e drive. disastrously, this erased all the songs from my playlists so they are now empty.
omg. can someone please help me with this? my playlists are my life!
i have my most important playlists on my ipod, but two concerns: will floola copy the playlists as well as the music files? and i have this fear that i might have the ipod on auto sync. i've found instructions for turning auto-sync off (holding Ctrl + Shift when you plug in your iPod), but they are from 2004, and i don't know if it's changed.
i know this happens to people all the time, but i would like to have confirmation of what i'm doing from someone i KNOW who KNOWS what works.
:-(
and it gets worse.
i only erased my itunes library of music on my laptop drive (after copying it to the external), but now i'm realizing that that folder only had about half my music. which would have been ok, except now i erased my library. i have backed up my "my music" folder more than once, so i am hoping that most of the missing music is still on my external somewhere, but how to figure out whats there and what's not...
i also managed to erase the last batch of cd's i ripped from the library that i had not moved to the external. nothing irritates me more than my own stupidity!
erasing my library, just now, might very well be the dumbest thing i've ever done in my entire life.