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Fighting with iTunes
Hi All,
Woke up Monday, sat down at my computer turned on iTunes and discovered it completely empty. There I was, staring at a brand new copy of iTunes with less-than-helpful icons describing "how wonderful" it was and what to do with it. I've been using iTunes for several years, so I KNOW what to do with it. Checked on-line for a solution, and it the course of trying to fix it -- ended up with two or three copies of every track. Now considering that's 2000-3000 you can imagine the mess. And as far as I could tell, there's no easy way to remove duplicates other than hand-deleting each line. Plus, of course, some of my CDs were missing.
So I started cleaning out the mess, and simultaneously rebuilding my playlists. The info and advice I tried from 2009 on-line didn't work.
This was fine until, what was it, Wednesday? Tuesday, maybe... When it happened AGAIN! So this time I re-built iTunes using a different copy of my music back-up. This worked better, at least there were far further duplicates (easily removed, yet again, one at a time) but the playlists were gone and some CDs were still missing. So now I'm resisting the temptation to build playlists as I go. I'm uploading missing CDs, THEN copying the folders into my backup on my external drive. Once I get all my missing CDs uploaded & the new folders of music copied to my backup -- THEN I'll try to build playlists.
I've changed a few settings iTunes, pretty much turning off anything that looked like "auto-update" but I'd appreciate advice - I depend on iTunes as my only way to listen to music in my home office - where I spend the majority of my time.
--Olivia
Woke up Monday, sat down at my computer turned on iTunes and discovered it completely empty. There I was, staring at a brand new copy of iTunes with less-than-helpful icons describing "how wonderful" it was and what to do with it. I've been using iTunes for several years, so I KNOW what to do with it. Checked on-line for a solution, and it the course of trying to fix it -- ended up with two or three copies of every track. Now considering that's 2000-3000 you can imagine the mess. And as far as I could tell, there's no easy way to remove duplicates other than hand-deleting each line. Plus, of course, some of my CDs were missing.
So I started cleaning out the mess, and simultaneously rebuilding my playlists. The info and advice I tried from 2009 on-line didn't work.
This was fine until, what was it, Wednesday? Tuesday, maybe... When it happened AGAIN! So this time I re-built iTunes using a different copy of my music back-up. This worked better, at least there were far further duplicates (easily removed, yet again, one at a time) but the playlists were gone and some CDs were still missing. So now I'm resisting the temptation to build playlists as I go. I'm uploading missing CDs, THEN copying the folders into my backup on my external drive. Once I get all my missing CDs uploaded & the new folders of music copied to my backup -- THEN I'll try to build playlists.
I've changed a few settings iTunes, pretty much turning off anything that looked like "auto-update" but I'd appreciate advice - I depend on iTunes as my only way to listen to music in my home office - where I spend the majority of my time.
--Olivia