*sigh* so much for THAT work...

[acroyear]

so I turned off my external hard drives at the office 'cause the power was taken down over the weekend.

i come back.

i turn on machine.

i bring up itunes.

i decided i'm in celtic mood so i switch my party shuffle to celt

thing tells me there's no music there.

oh yeah.

i turn on hard drive.

now itunes refuses to refresh to actually notice that all the files are there now.  it has still tagged 2/3rds of my celtic collection (the ones on the main playlist) as missing.  it'll only refresh a file as being there if i double-click it to play it, but i'm not doing that to 2,000 tracks one by one.

so i try to bring up a library manager to refresh it.  instead, it looks at the ones marked missing by itunes and starts deleting them all.

SO, all the work i'd done so far on cleaning up the celtic collection is entirely shot to hell.  any file removed has lots its ratings setting.  all the rest are now forced duplicates.  the whole thing is just one giant mess that has to be totally redone.

SOOOOO NOT in the mood anymore.

[note - physical files are not deleted - just their itunes references (which takes out all the rating work i've done, though the genres are preserved since that's stored in the ID3 tag.]

Comments

[spicyapplegirl.livejournal.com]

*hug* Oh, that sucks, Joe! As someone who likes to be super-organized, I empathize with the loss of all that cataloguing info. :(

~Apple

[faeriquene.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, is that made of suck. I'm having similar iTunes annoyances as I try to transfer my music collection from the old computer to the new.

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

Media Center, which I used to manage my FLAC library, doesn't do that. It just says that the files are missing.

I would guess that there would be a setting somewhere in iTunes to prevent that kind of behavior. At least there should be. I would think there are a lot of people who put their music libraries remotely where they potentially could lose connectivity.

[saxbabe.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I also have all my music on an external hard drive, that doesn't always like to cooperate. Any time I notice that iTunes thinks my music is not there, I just shut the program down and restart. That's always seemed to work for me in the past...suppose it's a little too late for that now though!