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Lost my playlists and something else :o(

by Mar 16, 2015 6:10AM PDT

I have a MacBook Pro, with the HD partitioned into "Mac HD" and "Audio". I have a rather large music library on "Audio" that is linked to my Serato library.



Today, I noticed that some of my playlists were missing.



I found this online: iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists - Apple Support and followed the instructions. I have now gone from well over 22000 songs, to just over 5000 tracks.



I noticed there are 2 iTunes libraries on my mac. One on "Mac HD" drive which appears to be about 30 gb, and another on the "Audio" drive (where I have set iTunes as the default drive and folder for my music).



The playlists I was looking for were not restored with the above process. However.... When I do a Spotlight search, I can find the name of the playlist I'm missing on a file called music.txt. How do I get all this back to normal?

I should add, when I started the process from the link above, iTunes started dumping audio onto my "Mac HD" drive... something I didn't want to do. I only have about 20gb free space there now

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Simply,
by Forum moderator Mar 16, 2015 8:57AM PDT

just restore everything from your backup and you will be fine


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I knew that restore would fix it.
by Forum moderator Mar 16, 2015 9:08AM PDT

I'm left to wonder why one would partition a drive today. In the past folk thought it may help save their files in case of a virus or even older thoughts about speed (it's no faster today.)

I'd move that space back into your one partition and then restore your iTunes backup one last time. The number of pleas for help when iTunes is on more than one drive are too scary for me to think I'd do that without backups.
Bob

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