I know over the years iTunes has at one point used the Album Artwork folder for storing album art and I think transitioned to embedding in the file or vice versa.
I recently upgrade my iMac and my iTunes Media folder was always on an external drive. I copies my iTunes Library file as well as Extras and Genius files over to my new machine, plugged in the external and launched iTunes and there was all my music etc. Even when I synced my iPhone and iPad, they worked just fine.
However, I did not copy over the album art folder. And yet there is one. The old album art folder on my older machine is about 800MB and the new one on my new iMac that I think iTunes created it around 450MB. Many of my albums in iTunes now don't have album art. I tried quitting iTunes, renaming the iTunes Album Art folder to that plus old and then copying the larger one from the other machine in it's stead. When I launched iTunes again, the art was still missing.
Is there a way to solve this? I would appreciate any help. Thanks.
EDIT: It doesn't seem to be the complete and total end of the world (my chosen hyperbole) as only 55 or so out of 1035 albums are missing artwork. But still I would like to restore them without doing it manually.
I recently upgrade my iMac and my iTunes Media folder was always on an external drive. I copies my iTunes Library file as well as Extras and Genius files over to my new machine, plugged in the external and launched iTunes and there was all my music etc. Even when I synced my iPhone and iPad, they worked just fine.
However, I did not copy over the album art folder. And yet there is one. The old album art folder on my older machine is about 800MB and the new one on my new iMac that I think iTunes created it around 450MB. Many of my albums in iTunes now don't have album art. I tried quitting iTunes, renaming the iTunes Album Art folder to that plus old and then copying the larger one from the other machine in it's stead. When I launched iTunes again, the art was still missing.
Is there a way to solve this? I would appreciate any help. Thanks.
EDIT: It doesn't seem to be the complete and total end of the world (my chosen hyperbole) as only 55 or so out of 1035 albums are missing artwork. But still I would like to restore them without doing it manually.
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