[iTunes] Itunes corrupting it's library

[Norm LeMieux]

In the same vein, has the community decoded the iTunes database so that 
repair et al routines can be run on it? I remember early on hearing the 
laments that it was a binary file and not HTML or some other text-based 
data.

-ntlm-


>From: Frank Flynn <frank at declan.com>
>Reply-To: "iTunesList" <iTunes at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>To: "iTunesList" <iTunes at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: [iTunes] Itunes corrupting it's library
>Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:34:13 -0700
>
>Hi All,
>
>Upon occasion (rare occasion but more than twice so far) my Mac has crashed
>or frozen while iTunes was running.  Probably this was unrelated to iTunes
>but when I restart iTunes has corrupted it's library - it will not launch
>saying "This is not a valid Library..."
>
>Trashing the Library will allow iTunes to launch but then I'll have to
>re-import all of the songs and  create my play lists all over again.  I 
>have
>many songs and  playlists and this can take several hours.
>
>My questions are:
>-Is there any way to recover a corrupt playlist?
>
>-Is there a way to prevent it in the first place?  I could make a back up 
>of
>it every time I change my library (yuck) it' about 5Mb.
>
>Thanks,
>Frank
>
>--
>Frank Flynn
>Poet, Artist & Mystic
>
>
>
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