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Another iTunes Tech Question
Posted by Handsome.P.Wonderful on 27 November 2009 - 2:24pm.
My PC died at the weekend. Fortunately I had taken a backup of all my files onto an external hard disk. My question is, when my new PC arrives, how should I restore my iTunes database?
My thinking is as follows:
Download latest iTunes and load onto PC
Copy the contents of my saved iTunes folder (including sub-folders and 'iTunes Library') to overwrite the 'virgin' iTunes folder
Bob's your uncle
As I understand it, the method I've described should restore all my original preferences as well as things like the play count for my tracks. If I simply copy the 'iTunes Music' folder and Import all tracks I won't get the play count. Any thoughts on whether this will / won't work?
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Just xml
All th information the library needs is in the xml file. As soon as your fresh installation sees that file it builds the binaries itself. If you keep the other library files you might have a problem. I used that method a few weeks back when I was moving my library to a different disk drive and it worked a treat (mind you, it took nearly 45 mins to recreate the binary files from the xml data but there were 41000 tracks to re-index)
Thanks John
Go here
This has very clear guides for all itunes issues - particularly with regard to transfer of libraries
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/help/
Very helpful links
Thanks Tim
Cheers
I've just bookmarked that site because I know that I will need it some day.