Itunes mess

[withm]

Ack! Itunes has eaten tracks 1-7 on over 100 albums. They show up in the listings, but I get an error message that the the song could not be used because the original file could not be found. What's up with that? Setting a restore point did nothing to ressurect. Most of these are cds I own so I can reload, but sheesh - that is a huge job. Bleah!

[Owlie]

Did you reorganize or rename your music files? Update iTunes recently?

[withm]

Did you reorganize or rename your music files? Update iTunes recently?

I haven't deleted tracks 1-7 of every album, nor would I have a clue to do this on a global basis. Tracks 8 - xx seem to be fine. Everything apperars intact on the Ipod itself, but this does not give me a warm fuzzy feeling about syncing anytime soon.

Itunes upgraded itself a couple weeks ago but I haven'tre-named anything, nor moved anything, nor added anything other than podcasts in months.

I'm trying to migrate everything to a new computer. So far email, contact lists, bookmarks have all transferred easily, but Itunes seems to be corrupted.

Probably 90% of the missing tracks are from CDs in my possession (but scattered all over the house, office, and car). But most of my operas had been library borrows, and of course have been returned.

I posted on the Itunes support board but from the responses I've seen there to other and/or similar problems, I don't have much expectation of solving this problem there.

[Irulan]

I get great solutions by googling these problems and reading various solutions in the apple/iTunes help forums and other tech forums.

[withm]

I get great solutions by googling these problems and reading various solutions in the apple/iTunes help forums and other tech forums.

Yeah I've been doing that for the last 4 hours. Giving up for now and going to bed. I re-downloaded what had been purchased from Itunes, but it's all my own music that remains to be either reloaded, or fixed.

[OakLeaf]

Did you sign up for iTunes Match? (I'm not touching that thing!!!)

If so, I was just reading something that might solve your issue - I don't remember it off the top of your head, but if you are signed up for Match I could find it easily.