I have been in the process of ripping all of my CD's into my iTunes library, and I'm about 13,000 songs in w/ all of the music I'd had before (I don't even want to think about how many hours I've spent doing this).
The last CD I put in was pretty scratched up and had problems playing it, so I decided to "force quit" and eject the CD and not rip that album. This has actually happened to me a number of times but had yet to cause a problem until now.
When my iTunes library re-loads, all of my music has the (!) next to it, telling me the files cannot be found. I look in the preferences and it has re-reverted to the mac hard-drive. I had gone through the lengthy process of switching all my files over from my mac hd to my 500 gig external drive a while back and the transition went flawlessly. However, now when I try to go back into my external hd I cannot even find the iTunes folder that I created there anymore.
Can anybody shine some light on what I might want to do? I've been ripping the files DIRECTLY onto iTunes and thus do not have a secondary copy on the drive (aka, they aren't loading the files from another place on the drive but are actually IN the iTunes folder alone).
Thanks for any help, this seems like a disaster...
The last CD I put in was pretty scratched up and had problems playing it, so I decided to "force quit" and eject the CD and not rip that album. This has actually happened to me a number of times but had yet to cause a problem until now.
When my iTunes library re-loads, all of my music has the (!) next to it, telling me the files cannot be found. I look in the preferences and it has re-reverted to the mac hard-drive. I had gone through the lengthy process of switching all my files over from my mac hd to my 500 gig external drive a while back and the transition went flawlessly. However, now when I try to go back into my external hd I cannot even find the iTunes folder that I created there anymore.
Can anybody shine some light on what I might want to do? I've been ripping the files DIRECTLY onto iTunes and thus do not have a secondary copy on the drive (aka, they aren't loading the files from another place on the drive but are actually IN the iTunes folder alone).
Thanks for any help, this seems like a disaster...
