OS X V10.7 Lion :: Itunes Cannot Find The Library
May 15, 2012My finder is blinking and I' cant open it my itunes cannot find the library, what to do?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
My finder is blinking and I' cant open it my itunes cannot find the library, what to do?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
I have been using a 2007 MacPro laptop, using OSX 10.6.4 for several years. I have my Itunes library on an external hard drive. I purchased a new MacPro laptop recently with 10.7.3. Both seem to be using Itunes 10.6. When I plug in the external hard drive Itunes doesn't see a library file, and no tunes are shown. I see the lists of files, but can't sync to a library file. I pluged in my Ipod Classic and about 1800 songs are in the new laptop Tunes media folder. But I cant get to the library where some 8000+ tunes, books, podcast's live. When I shift back to the old library no problems are noted. When I shift to the new laptop only the 1800 files it copied from from the Ipod are displayed. I seem to be able to tell it the library is external in advanced preferences, but no library can be found.
Info:iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook, iOS 5.1
My iTunes library is unavaliable an is not found neither by appleTV nor remote of iPhone and iPad?
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2. Photos appear correctly in Front Row and DVDs play, I just can't see my videos and music.
3. One interesting thing: the Album Art screen saver also says that "Your iTunes library does not contain any songs with artwork", while most of my iTunes music have album art embedded and they display correctly in iTunes.
I even tried re-installing OS X, but it still does not work! Here is the computer I am using: 17-inch 2.0 gHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.10) iMac from October, 2006 with iTunes 7.3.1 installed and working. I have had this problem since (I think) iTunes 6.
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iMac
I use Google's Google Play and I made the mistake of Downloading my Library from the Google play Music Manager in my (early 2011) MacBook Pro's System Preferences after I already had my music library in iTunes so now I have a duplicate of every single song and not sure how to delete them. I tried using the the advice offered on here where I sort all music based on DATE but every song has the same date and about the same time so that won't work for me. Other then downloading a paid program I'm not sure what my options here are. That being said, let me know if anyone know what options other then paying for a program to do this for me or worse... having me click on every single duplicate song individually until I finish?Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 5.1.1
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Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
My iTunes library has apparently filled my entire iMac (according to the computer I have over 97 days' worth of music). I would like to know 1) how to properly save my iTunes library to an external hard drive and 2) how to use iTunes so that it uses the library on the external drive.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), iOS 5.1.1
I just updated my MacBook to Lion, and I used to have a folder when using Leopard called "Library." I can't find it anymore. The only way to get to it is to open Xcode 4, make a Cocoa application, build it, then right-click the target, then click "Show in finder. This is what the library folder looks like after I do that:
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Model of 2008
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