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 >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>