[iTunes] rebuilding iTunes library

[Ken Stevens]

Hi Becca:  Back up both your iTunes library and iTunes library.xml.   
This is a bit redundant but
it won't hurt to have both backed up.  I recommend backing them up to  
a different disk if possible.

When I crashed a hard disk I lost all my music, photographs, my  
financial and tax records, my medical
records, any programs I had downloaded off the net.  Reconstructing  
all that was a mess and some was
lost forever, so I sympathize.
I recommend backing up everything on your hard disk daily.  Hard  
drives are mechanical devices
so they will wear out and fail without warning.  Is there anything on  
your computer it would hurt to loose?

Ken
On Jul 11, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Becca wrote:

> After my Big Crash of a few weeks ago, I've decided not to bring all  
> my books and music back into iTunes unless/until I decide I need it  
> for some reason. For example, I have all my Great Big Sea music on  
> my iPod already, so there's no need to bring it back into iTunes;  
> Emerald Rose isn't on my iPod, and I want it there, so I'll bring  
> all those into iTunes so I can load it. The missing books and music  
> exist on my computer, and I've figured out the very odd way iTunes  
> backed up everything before The Crash (audible books are in folders  
> by author; my other books are in a big folder called Audio Books -  
> music is scattered, based on how lazy I was when I loaded it.).
>
> I did re-bring in all my Audible books and put them in play lists  
> and folders. When I'm feeling obsessive, I might bring in some of my  
> series books: I have some Terry Pratchett in audible files and some  
> as regular mp3s, for example.
>
> My question is this: what file should I periodically back up (the  
> iTunesLibrary.xml file?) just in case something like this happens  
> again, so I don't have to rebuild my library yet again?
>
> -becca
>
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