Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Digital Lifestyle
Music, Audio, and Podcasting
iTunes Library.itl corrupted
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="dbm" data-source="post: 1649959" data-attributes="member: 184286"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>Yesterday I got an error message with iTunes (12.1.0.50) which said that the 'iTunes Library.itl' file was corrupted, and had been saved to 'iTunes Library (damaged).itl'. This seems to have made iTunes forget all my content. Complicating things, I have iTunes Match. I attempted to recover my library using iTunes Match, but this showed all the media with a cloud icon, offering me the chance to download the media again. I tried this and ended up with two files for the album I tried to recover - the previous version and a newly downloaded version. I have over 10,000 tracks in my library so don't want to end up duplicating them all!</p><p></p><p>Is there a good way to rediscover the media on my drive? It is an external RAID if that makes any difference. I wondered about deleting the meta files and then either adding all the media again (can you add a folder and get all the contents?) or pointing iTunes at the media directory again?</p><p></p><p>Any suggestions greatly received, since all my media is now unaccessible! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dbm, post: 1649959, member: 184286"] Hi, Yesterday I got an error message with iTunes (12.1.0.50) which said that the 'iTunes Library.itl' file was corrupted, and had been saved to 'iTunes Library (damaged).itl'. This seems to have made iTunes forget all my content. Complicating things, I have iTunes Match. I attempted to recover my library using iTunes Match, but this showed all the media with a cloud icon, offering me the chance to download the media again. I tried this and ended up with two files for the album I tried to recover - the previous version and a newly downloaded version. I have over 10,000 tracks in my library so don't want to end up duplicating them all! Is there a good way to rediscover the media on my drive? It is an external RAID if that makes any difference. I wondered about deleting the meta files and then either adding all the media again (can you add a folder and get all the contents?) or pointing iTunes at the media directory again? Any suggestions greatly received, since all my media is now unaccessible! :( [/QUOTE]
Verification
What is Apple's smallest desktop computer called?
Post reply
Forums
Digital Lifestyle
Music, Audio, and Podcasting
iTunes Library.itl corrupted
Top
