iTunes Library Q

**Brydo666** · 19th October 2010

I recently made a switch from my Windows PC to a MacBook.

On the MacBook with a clean install of Snow Leopard I launched to a clean library and logged into my iTunes Store account and Authorised the Mac as one of my allowances.

On the PC, I copied my whole "Music" folder including the "iTunes" one and copied it to the "Music" folder within the 'Chris' folder on my Mac.

I launched iTunes and the library looked exactly as it should - I connected my iPhone and it done a backup etc and all was OK.

Problem is, when I attempt to play a song I get a message stating the file could not be found - it's the same for all songs. I have the option to Locate the file and I'll assume it will be OK but I have 2,631 songs. The podcasts I have downloaded play fine.

Is there a mass way of fixing this? I assume in the library the file location is stored as C:\Users\Chris\Music or something to that effect and it needs to be corrected, I was going to delete all songs and re-import (They're all in the Music folder) but this said it would remove the songs from my iPhone too which I'd like to avoid - but if needs must I'll just do it.

Any thoughts?

**Brydo666** · 19th October 2010

Originally Posted by Chris B

I was going to delete all songs and re-import (They're all in the Music folder) but this said it would remove the songs from my iPhone too which I'd like to avoid - but if needs must I'll just do it.

This option won't work as well as I thought, it'll remove all the apps from my iPhone as it's a new/different library.

**maltloaf** · 19th October 2010

theres no c drive on the mac

my music is in /users/maltloaf/music/itunes/itunes music

you might want to tick the option to let itunes manage the library and to copy new music to your library

**Brydo666** · 19th October 2010

I've went back to the Windows system and set it to have iTunes manage the files and it's currently consolidating them... I'll try importing them again after that.