Hi all,
Recently, I attempted to back up songs for a friend onto an external drive for her, using instructions from an iTunes book I bought and many YouTube videos. I decided to test drive the transfer on my own MacBook Pro as I would rather mess up my music than hers. And mess it up, somehow, I did. The transfer to her external seems to have worked but when I clicked on a song to play, the song opened MY iTunes library and played her song but my entire library was listed under the title of her song as if her song was in my library. I began to fiddle with things and have no trace of what I did but now, I have music all over the place, duplicates here and there and, most problematic, songs in my library I can find through Finder and I can play them but when I open my library, they aren't listed. At the top of the window, it says I am in Previous iTunes Libraries but when I follow the path user/music/iTunes. . . now it gets messy. . . . much of my library is listed there. . . but I can next advance the path to iTunes Music and then find a more complete list of my library and duplicates of the previous list. This is also where the library file is and the artwork flie. When I go to preferences in iTunes and look in advance at the path, I get user/music/iTunes/iTunes Music.
How can I get all my music to be listed in my library and move out of the previous iTunes library?
Recently, I attempted to back up songs for a friend onto an external drive for her, using instructions from an iTunes book I bought and many YouTube videos. I decided to test drive the transfer on my own MacBook Pro as I would rather mess up my music than hers. And mess it up, somehow, I did. The transfer to her external seems to have worked but when I clicked on a song to play, the song opened MY iTunes library and played her song but my entire library was listed under the title of her song as if her song was in my library. I began to fiddle with things and have no trace of what I did but now, I have music all over the place, duplicates here and there and, most problematic, songs in my library I can find through Finder and I can play them but when I open my library, they aren't listed. At the top of the window, it says I am in Previous iTunes Libraries but when I follow the path user/music/iTunes. . . now it gets messy. . . . much of my library is listed there. . . but I can next advance the path to iTunes Music and then find a more complete list of my library and duplicates of the previous list. This is also where the library file is and the artwork flie. When I go to preferences in iTunes and look in advance at the path, I get user/music/iTunes/iTunes Music.
How can I get all my music to be listed in my library and move out of the previous iTunes library?