iTunes and music loss question

Not sure what my wife did but she said she updated to the latest iTunes and all her music and iPhone apps are gone. I went to her music folder and dragged the iTunes folder into iTunes and it starts to import the apps but gets an error saying "a file is missing". Once I clear this alert for every app it seems like it importing all the songs but get through maybe 10-15 then stops. I went into time machine and went to Nov. 1 when I know her iTunes was fine. Restored the Music folder and tried it again and still a no-go..

any thoughts? I hope she didn't lose everything.

Try a permissions repair in disk utility, reboot and try again, and let us know the outcome. You still have everything as you have a TM backup, so I think a permissions error is most likely here.

will doing a persmissions repair delete everything off the Mac? Like her homework for school, pictures in iPhoto, etc...

Gary86 said:

will doing a persmissions repair delete everything off the Mac? Like her homework for school, pictures in iPhoto, etc...

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Nope, but in saying that, both of you should be keeping current time machine backups!