Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-08 Thread rayna424
Yesh. I was on the way to getting there after it was explained that the option key started this mess, but it didn't work the first time I tried it. So, so glad I tried it again. Now I can import the Stephen King book I wanted to import without fear lol! Jessi and Goldina wrote: > haha yay!! glad

Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-08 Thread Jessi and Goldina
haha yay!! glad it worked and you don't have to rebuild your library from scratch!! yay, us doggie handlers got it goin' on!! lol :D On 2010-02-08, at 7:54 AM, rayna424 wrote: > It worked! I had tried it early but I don't think I held the option > key in time. This time it worked!!! Yay Thank

Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-08 Thread rayna424
It worked! I had tried it early but I don't think I held the option key in time. This time it worked!!! Yay Thank you Doggy handlers unite! Hahahaha! Yay!!! Jessi and Goldina wrote: > hey Randi! > holding down the option key when you launch iTunes will bring up the dialog > about the lib

Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-08 Thread louie
Hi all, Is there a way to combine libraries? On Feb 8, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: hey Randi! holding down the option key when you launch iTunes will bring up the dialog about the library. that's how you switch from one library to the next. do that and find your library and y

Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-08 Thread Jessi and Goldina
hey Randi! holding down the option key when you launch iTunes will bring up the dialog about the library. that's how you switch from one library to the next. do that and find your library and you should be good to go! and that's how you can make more than one library! On 2010-02-08, at 6:35 AM,

Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-08 Thread rayna424
Hmmm. Well since you're saying the problem occured because I might have held down the option key, I wonder if I launch iTunes and hold the option key, if it will ask me about the library again. I might try that when I get to where I can tackle this problem. All the other options sound really daunti

Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-08 Thread Scott Howell
SOmeone had previously recommended you either direct iTunes to use the previous copy of the library or just copy the library from the previous iTunes library folder back into the top-level of the iTunes folder. Of course if you use Time Machine, you can always restore the previous library from t

Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-07 Thread rayna424
Ok, this is good stuff to look at tomorrow. Do you know if there's anyway to restore iTunes to before the update? Then I can just make sure that library thing doesn't happen. I wish I had known, or just quit it. Sounds like fixing it will be hard. Scott Howell wrote: > All you have to do is simpl

Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-07 Thread Scott Howell
All you have to do is simply quit iTUnes in most cases and just restart it. I find where the issue shows itself is when you accidentally hold the option key down while iTunes is loading. This allows you to select an alternate iTunes library. WHenever iTunes comes up and asks me for a library, I

Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-07 Thread Ryan Mann
Hello. In the future, when ITunes asks you to choose a library, you should browse to your music/itunes folder, then push the choose library button or whatever it is called.. That's actually where the Itunes library is. That's what I have to do a lot of times when software updates come out.

Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-07 Thread Esther
Hi Randi, Your music and iTunes library content should all still be present. What's happened is that the library file that points to the location of your music is pointing to a new (blank) location. The old library file should be stored under a folder called "Previous iTunes Library" an

Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-07 Thread rayna424
Everything still appears to be on the computer. It looks as though iTunes just got lost. So, I guess that's what I need to fix, but I'm totally braindead now, so I'll check in here tomorrow and see if there are posts. Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Wow, Randi, let me know if I can help, once yo

Re: iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-07 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Wow, Randi, let me know if I can help, once you've calmed down. The first thing to do is go through Finder and confirm that your stuff isn't still on your hard drive, just not being recognized by Itunes. If you want, Skype me or something and we'll work this through, because I don't think

iTunes lost all my stuff

2010-02-07 Thread rayna424
Hi all, I am restraining myself from calling Apple until tomorrow. I just did the latest iTunes software update, and when it was done, it asked me to pick a library. Huh? I think I just selected music. Well, all my stuff is gone. All of it. Gone. I'm freaking out and have shut down iTunes until I