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 <paul.chon...@gmail.com> 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
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