[iTunes] Re: Preserving Playlists

[Kevin O'Hanlon]

How does one backup a library and it's playlists?


Many thanks and warm regards,


Kevin 



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> From: Alvin Koh <alvinkoh at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "iTunesList" <iTunes at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 09:21:19 +0800
> To: "iTunesList" <iTunes at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [iTunes] Re: Preserving Playlists
> 
> Yes I did notice my OLD music locations listed in the Library file as well,
> since that was a that I did not migrate my songs the proper way. Rather I just
> pointed to a new folder and dragged on the songs into iTunes.
> 
> If I recall correctly the Library consists of 2 parts. The first part contains
> the Artist, Album, Genre, etc for each song. The second part contains the
> playlists. So if you delete the Library, you basically lose everything. All
> the more reason to make sure the Library is backed up regularly.
> 
> Alvin
> 
> 
> On Monday, June 02, 2003, at 03:58AM, Kevin O'Hanlon
> <kevinohanlon at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ah, did not know that.  Thanks you for the education.  I guess then the
>> issue is that the aliases don't follow accurately when you move your media
>> from one drive or location to another.
>> 
>> Come to think of it probably this was the cause of thousands of duplicates I
>> created when I Imported from my remote music library which I had moved from
>> one drive to another.  The alias is "out" by the new name of the new drive
>> (or folder) and iTunes probably sees an identical song as new media and
>> imports it freshly.
>> 
>> Still pretty primitive not to give you a heads-up when this is happening,
>> like iPhoto does.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Many thanks and warm regards,
>> 
>> 
>> Kevin 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Kunga <Kunga at FutureMedia.org>
>>> Reply-To: "iTunesList" <iTunes at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>>> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 12:31:33 -0700
>>> To: "iTunesList" <iTunes at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>>> Subject: [iTunes] Re: Preserving Playlists
>>> 
>>> They are all aliases to the music files in your music folder(s) all
>>> over the multiple HDs and Volumes.
>>> 
>>> k
>>> 
>>> On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 11:56  AM, Kevin O'Hanlon wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Alias's to what though.
>>> 
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