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It's all gone horribly wrong now.
Initially I connected the external hard drive to my PC and pointed iTunes to the .itl file and it open up as empty. I did that on two PCs that was at 6.30am today. I tried again at 11am and it worked. It was perfect, or it seemed anyway. I then wanted to add some new files to iTunes so I went to Prefernces and for some reason the
Keep iTunes Media Folder Organised
Copy files to ITunes Media Folder when adding to library
Folders were unticked, so I stupidly, without taking a back up of the hard drive first,ticked them and pressed okay. iTunes then ran a green move line for a few minutes and opened up with everything !
I have spent 75minutes on the phone with apple support and we moved all the sub folders back into iTunes Media and now I am 8502 items missing out of over 17000.
Not sure what to do now but obviously keeping iTunes on the external hard drive is a no no so currently moving it all back to the C drive. Debating what to do next. I have a 1st November back up from Cucusoft iTunes transfer (which no longer works for backups) which might import into hubbys PC, then I just need to redo all the changes I've made since then (which is a lot) or try and manually repoint 8502 items.
Oh an since this morning the iTunes folder on the hard drive 'lost' 22GB of items! I took a note of he properties figures at 6am and just now and it's 22Gb smaller now.
What a mess.
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