[iTunes] success - sort of

[Ken Stevens]

Becca: Your book files and music files are still on the hard disk.   
All you to do is find those files in your iTunes music
folder and drag them into iTunes to add them to the library.  You will  
need to resubscribe to any podcasts that you have
added since October.

Ken
On Jan 9, 2009, at 1:49 AM, Becca wrote:

>
> --- On Thu, 1/8/09, Ken Stevens <kestevens at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> When you start iTunes hold down the shift key.  This should
>> give you a dialogue box
>> allowing you to "create a new library" or to
>> "choose a library".  Select the choose library
>> option.
>> look in your Music folder for a folder "Previous
>> iTunes Libraries".  Try to open the
>> most recent.  If this doesn't work you may have to open
>> the backup, even if it is a couple of months old,
>> it should have all or most of your podcasts.
>
> well, this mostly worked. I couldn't open the most recent .itl file  
> - was only a couple of days old, too - but could open one from last  
> October, so I'll only have a couple of months of work to re-create.  
> That's worlds better than having to re-do the whole thing from  
> scratch, but still annoying. I'll have to go back to my audible  
> library and see which books I've downloaded from them in the last  
> few months, and add a few of the cds my daughter and I got for  
> Christmas. It's better than nothing!
>
> -becca, going to bed now
>
>
>
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