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carrollf

macrumors regular
Original poster
Aug 8, 2007
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Ireland
I backed up my full music library to DVD about a month ago. Since then I have downloaded more songs from the Store and also added some of my own CD's. I noticed today that I am missing some of my store purchases from my main library but i know they are on my backup.

Is it possible to only restore a part of my backed up library? I only want to restore the missing parts and the entire library because then my new material (not on the backup) will be lost!!
 

Cinematographer

macrumors 6502a
Sep 12, 2005
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Is it possible to only restore a part of my backed up library?

I have never tried that.

If it doesn't work, you could start a second iTunes library by holding down the option (alt-) key during the launch of iTunes. Then you could fill the empty library with your restore items and copy them over to your first library.

Maybe that works. (I'd suggest a backup first.)
 
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