I have an iTunes library with thousands of songs in it. I haven’t opened iTunes for a while, but today I wanted to import a new cd, started iTunes and without thinking I imported the cd. I needed to set the bitrate, which was rather strange, but I did so, and the cd was imported.
Then I opened my personal music library, which was totally empty except for this cd. I opened the Finder and all music was still there. In the settings I checked if iTunes used the right folder, which it did.
My Macboo is rather old, and I had to disable Spotlight because it slowed down the machine too much.
I wonder where the new cd is stored.
How can I restore the old library?
Answer
See If you don’t see your content after you update iTunes
- Quit iTunes.
- Go to the iTunes folder that contains the iTunes library files:
- Mac: From the menu bar at the top of your computer screen, choose Go > Home. Open the Music folder, then open the iTunes folder.
- Windows: Navigate to \Users\username\Music\iTunes.
- Drag the iTunes Library.itl file to your Desktop.
- In the iTunes folder, open the Previous iTunes Libraries folder.
- Find the file named iTunes Library YYYY-MM-DD where YYYY-MM-DD is the date you updated iTunes (Year-Month-Day).
- Copy this file to the iTunes folder (the enclosing folder).
- Rename the copied file iTunes Library.
- Open iTunes.
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