Lost Itunes Playlists

My drive crashed when Mavericks was being installed. I was upgrading from 10.6.8. So I had a new drive put in. Much of my data was retrieved from the old drive. I do have the downloaded songs from Itunes, but not my created playlists. How would I get it back from my old drive?

I believe you'd need your old .itl file (iTunes Library.itl), however I haven't done such a replacement myself, so cannot guarantee it'll work, particularly in view of the OS upgrade (hence a different iTunes version).

Keep a backup of your current .itl file, before you attempt to replace it with the old one. Also, I presume, the location for the library hasn't changed, otherwise you'll get a right mess by replacing the file.

Actually, scratch the above - just looked at it closely: go to File | Library | Import Playlist and point to your old .itl file - that should do the trick and get around the different (new) version of iTunes you now have.

Yea!! I got everything back. I'm not quite sure how I did it, but I did! I searched Library files and I found all my "Tracks" so I just dragged them to "Songs". My songs are also showing in albums. Thank you for your help.

hschaars said:

Yea!! I got everything back. I'm not quite sure how I did it, but I did! I searched Library files and I found all my "Tracks" so I just dragged them to "Songs". My songs are also showing in albums. Thank you for your help.

Click to expand...

Hmm, thats handy to know, thanks for the feedback.

hschaars said:

Yea!! I got everything back.

Click to expand...

Great! Always nice to hear a problem has been resolved