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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1838985" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Can you tell us <strong>exactly</strong> how you moved the files from one computer to the other? In the meantime, this is just a guess but here'a what I think happened:</p><p></p><p><strong>Background </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>In the past (prior versions of iTunes) this usually occurred because the songs and other media had been stored in several different folders over time. Depending upon how your preferences were set some of the folders were outside of the iTunes media folder and didn't get copied during the transfer of just the iTunes media folder. The fix was to open the iTunes preferences and tell it to move files into the media folder (consolidating them) before copying things to the new machine. Onee the libraryary was consolidated it could be copied to the new location</p><p></p><p><strong>Probable fix</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Under Catalina Music does not have that setting in its preferences. Try going to <strong>File>Library>Organize Library </strong>and <strong>check</strong> that checkbox before copying the contents of the media folder. </p><p></p><p>If that doesn't fix the problem post back. In the meantime I'll look for a definitive answer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1838985, member: 131855"] Can you tell us [B]exactly[/B] how you moved the files from one computer to the other? In the meantime, this is just a guess but here'a what I think happened: [B]Background [/B] In the past (prior versions of iTunes) this usually occurred because the songs and other media had been stored in several different folders over time. Depending upon how your preferences were set some of the folders were outside of the iTunes media folder and didn't get copied during the transfer of just the iTunes media folder. The fix was to open the iTunes preferences and tell it to move files into the media folder (consolidating them) before copying things to the new machine. Onee the libraryary was consolidated it could be copied to the new location [B]Probable fix [/B] Under Catalina Music does not have that setting in its preferences. Try going to [B]File>Library>Organize Library [/B]and [B]check[/B] that checkbox before copying the contents of the media folder. If that doesn't fix the problem post back. In the meantime I'll look for a definitive answer. [/QUOTE]
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