Hi everyone,
OK - here's the deal. Recently, I bought a Western Digital My Book My World (White Lights Edition) NAS and moved my iTunes Media Library (folder) to it but left the 'organise my library' option checked in iTunes. I also decided to leave the library file on my Macbook.
Firmware issues aside, iTunes one day decided that: "Hey, you know what? Pointing to actual media files is too mainstream. I'll point to folders AND muck up the album artwork of a random bunch of songs - just to show how much I heart you!"
Its now been two weeks without iTunes, and with the impending iOS 5 release tomorrow, I figured I might as well get iTunes in order if iCloud (and alike) is to play out nice.
So, my question is: can I verify the iTunes Library WITHOUT deleting files and force iTunes to look for the actual media files, rather deleting all the media and redragging them into iTunes?
I ran the 'xmlwf' command (from MacPorts) on the XML files and 0 errors were returned (i.e. well-formed XML); so iTunes has buggered up big time and now it looks like a lot of hurt trying to fix it up
Any help is really, REALLY appreciated! If you would like screenshots, I will be more then happy to post!
-timeimp
OK - here's the deal. Recently, I bought a Western Digital My Book My World (White Lights Edition) NAS and moved my iTunes Media Library (folder) to it but left the 'organise my library' option checked in iTunes. I also decided to leave the library file on my Macbook.
Firmware issues aside, iTunes one day decided that: "Hey, you know what? Pointing to actual media files is too mainstream. I'll point to folders AND muck up the album artwork of a random bunch of songs - just to show how much I heart you!"
Its now been two weeks without iTunes, and with the impending iOS 5 release tomorrow, I figured I might as well get iTunes in order if iCloud (and alike) is to play out nice.
So, my question is: can I verify the iTunes Library WITHOUT deleting files and force iTunes to look for the actual media files, rather deleting all the media and redragging them into iTunes?
I ran the 'xmlwf' command (from MacPorts) on the XML files and 0 errors were returned (i.e. well-formed XML); so iTunes has buggered up big time and now it looks like a lot of hurt trying to fix it up
Any help is really, REALLY appreciated! If you would like screenshots, I will be more then happy to post!
-timeimp