iTunes problem

[et0609]

Hello

I have an issue with iTunes. I keep my music files on a network drive, which recently crashed. I now have a new one and have transferred all the files from my backup onto the new network drive.

Ive gone into iTunes preferences and changed the location of the media folder to the new network drive.

When I open iTunes it doesnt recognise any files and asks me to locate them. I thought by updating the location of the folder, it automatically updates iTunes with the new location of my music files. Although it did say it was updating, it only took a few seconds to update 1000's of songs, so dont think its actually updating iTunes at all. When I manually drop the folder of an artist album into iTunes, it seems to work, but doing it that way would take me hours.

Is there any reason why iTunes would not update all files to the new location of my music folder. I have done this many times and its worked before.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

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In iTunes, go to Preferences, Advanced and change the location of your Library to new drive (as you have done previously). Close Preferences. Click on File | Library | Organise Library. In the window that will open, tick the Consolidate Files option. Done! Well, actually it'll take an awful long time to complete, so make a cuppa

This will not only reset the location of your files in iTunes list, but also actually copy the files to a new location. Unfortunately, just copying them yourself doesn't work, as I found out, much to my irritation, recently, when I got a new big Time Capsule and wanted to move everything there ... iTunes are really pretty dumb: you tell it where the files are, then it asks you where the files are The only way to make it remember is to consolidate the library.

 

[et0609]

Thanks for the advice. Found another way in the end. Located one missing file and it then gave me the option of finding all missing miles. Chose 'yes' and it located all but 20 missing files. Took ages though.