[iTunes] Locations Lost After Reinstall

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 11/20/04 4:06 AM, "William Hill" <bhill at duckhill.com> wrote:

> Yesterday I had the unfortunate task of reformatting my hard drive
> (TiBook 400 MHz, 10.3.6, iTunes 4.7), and when I got things put back
> together, I discovered that iTunes has lost the location of MOST of my
> music (I get the "...the original location could not be found"
> message), and has is also telling me that every song that I have
> purchased from the Apple Music Store is "not authorized to play on this
> computer". I did  a consolidation, but that only found about 10% of the
> songs on my hard drive. Do I have to sit here and select the location
> of each song, and then go through the process of re-registering every
> purchased song??? Arghhh....

In the Advanced prefs, check Keep iTunes Folder Organized. Delete all the
music from your library, then find the folder containing the originals and
drag that folder onto the iTunes Library window. This will copy every track
to the "correct" location.

For the store, select Advanced > Authorize this computer and re-enter your
information. If it says Deauthorize, do that first.
 

Kirk
 
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