iTunes can't relink my music library since SL undate

[alexm13]

hey everyone,

so I upgraded to snow leopard a few weeks ago and everything seems to be working pretty well expect itunes. When I opened itunes ever since, I upgraded, there is nothing in the library. I tired point itunes to my music folder in the prefs and I've tried option click opening itunes, and I say "choose library" and it still opens itunes with nothing in it.

I know I could just re-import all my music from my music folder, but I don't want to loose all the play counts and ratings, ect.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

~ Alex

 

[Cinematographer]

Don't know if that works: quit iTunes, go to Finder, go to the Music folder in your home directory, double-click on the iTunes library file there.

If that doesn't work, tell us what files in your Music folder are.

 

[alexm13]

Don't know if that works: quit iTunes, go to Finder, go to the Music folder in your home directory, double-click on the iTunes library file there.

If that doesn't work, tell us what files in your Music folder are.

i've tried that. here's a snap shot of the music folder:

thanks

 

[Cinematographer]

Two things are strange: The temp files, I've never seen that before; and the fact that there's a music and a media folder. iTunes will probably just read one of those.

Suggestion:

1. Quit iTunes.

2. Trash the iTunes library file (the one highlighted in your screenshot); if you want, save it to an external first, if you don't have Time Machine.

3. Open iTunes.

This could force iTunes to re-build the library based on one of the xml-files (in your screenshot). No garantee that it works though.

 

[alexm13]

Two things are strange: The temp files, I've never seen that before; and the fact that there's a music and a media folder. iTunes will probably just read one of those.

Suggestion:

1. Quit iTunes.

2. Trash the iTunes library file (the one highlighted in your screenshot); if you want, save it to an external first, if you don't have Time Machine.

3. Open iTunes.

This could force iTunes to re-build the library based on one of the xml-files (in your screenshot). No garantee that it works though.

thanks for your help, I was able to restore it from one of the old library files!

 

[Cinematographer]

Glad it worked.