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that sucks

I assume you can see that drive otherwise?

You could restore a time machine backup from before you updated.

You could load an older version of iTunes http://www.oldapps.com/itunes.php but the new version may have altered your library so it won't work with older versions. You can always just reload the library but you'll lose some stuff like playlists.

Only other thing I can think of is contact Apple support.

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Take care,

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That might work but iTunes finds files by storing the path to it in the library. The backup would have to be an exact duplicate having the same name and same file structure as the original which is doubtful. If you renamed it to match the old one that might work. If you go to the Music/iTunes folder you can open the "iTunes Library.xml" file and see what path it is looking for.

Interesting, I just did a test by renaming my music drive and iTunes followed that by renaming the path of the song. Evidently it is now using something other than the name to keep track of them. Not sure it is smart enough to do that if you switch to a different drive.

If you do an "add to library" then you will have two listings for each song, one of which iTunes can't find because it isn't there. You can get rid of the dead tracks by using this http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=removedeadsuper but might as well start over at that point. Hold down the option key as you start iTunes and it will give you the option to create a new library. Create one then just drag and drop the new drive onto the iTunes icon in the dock and it will add the songs. Only problem you will lose things like play lists, play counts, and ratings if that matters to you.

At least you have a backup. Looks like you need to get another drive ASAP so you have another. Too bad drive prices jumped lately.

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Ouch, I think you may have a problem. If you dragged and dropped I'm pretty sure you just created an alias, what is called a shortcut in the world of Windows. It didn't actually copy the files, it just created a pointer that says where the original files are (or unfortunately where they were).

If you double click the backup to see the files does it show all of your files or just an alias, an icon with a little arrow on it.

If only the icon your only hope is to somehow recover the original drive.

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Get Super Duper for backups

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

I have an idea, I'll email you.

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to get it all on the external drive first go to advanced preferences and make the external drive your iTunes media folder, if you click change you can browse to it.

then go to File - library - organize library and then choose consolidate. It will copy all music files not already there to that drive. Make a backup copy of the music drive and then delete them from the internal drive.

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A clone is a bit for bit copy including all hidden files. If you want to make a bootable disk that includes the operating system you have to clone since a backup copy won't grab everything you need to make that work.

If it's just data files then a drag and drop will work but a program like Super Duper is easier and faster especially after the first backup. It will do incremental backups; it will see what is new or changed on the main disk and only copy those to the backup, which is much faster than a full copy.

BTW don't know if it got answered but no, Super Duper doesn't work with Windows formats.

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