Hi Becca: Your music/books should not have disappeared. Do a search on a title that should be there. Maybe you have another Music folder with all those files. If that is the case there maybe an iTunes Library.xml file there. Itunes can access music/books/ podcasts from multiple locations on your hard drive. For example I have my podcasts on a separate drive because I don't back them up, it takes too much space on my backup drive. Look around on your hard drive, I am sure everything is there. There is nothing a freeze in itunes or XP could do to erase those files. Ken On Jul 4, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Becca wrote: > sh*t. > > It looks like all my books (except Audible) are gone, and all my > music is gone. The whole file is empty - even the stuff I downloaded > from iTunes is gone. > > that'll teach me not to back up more frequently. > > -becca > > > > _______________________________________________ > iTunes mailing list > iTunes at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/itunes