mattymaky

Thanks you guys everything working and in the proper place

Thanks again you guys. Getting late here in HK. Will get my head around the last 2 replies and have another go in a few days time as I am away.

I think this is where I start to lose the plot. I don't think I moved the iTunes library. I just moved the iTunes media files to the external disk initially and the preferences was set to look for the media location. Everything worked fine. Then I started the above unpartitioning my external hard drive then losing the link etc. So now what? When you say move my iTunes library to my external drive what is that? Do you mean this file? Home>library>iTunes

Okay totally confused Please stay with me. The iTunes media folder is a folder that I exported out to the external hard drive from Home>music>iTunes>iTunes media This was where all my shows, movies and music was stored. There were folders already labelled music, movies TV shows, books etc This was >600GB. As explained above I managed to get everything back into it's appropriate folder. iTunes no longer had "!" everywhere and voila thought that was it. BUT now I have noticed that every time I play a song it will create another copy of the song in the iTunes media folder on external but not under the sun folder called music. So after playing 10 songs I have 10 files in the Itunes media folder when there is another copy in the music folder. Make sense? I like things tidy and organized so this is driving me crazy. I just looked in my TV shows file and most of my TV series are missing! But when I look in Itunes they are there and play. After being played they show up in the external drive>iTunes media>tv shows and in the correct TV show! Huh? Help I feel I have lost the plot!

Thank you so much. Basically I just went to one of the "!" and ask it to locate it etc and it did manage to find most of my missing links. I just did it a couple of times with a few "!" and it managed to trace all of the files. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and took about 40 mins. Phew! Happy now

Oh I am kicking myself so much now. I had the iTunes media folder on a partitioned external HD which was fast running out of space. So I copied the folder back to my internal drive, reformatted the external disk to one partition then moved the iTunes folder to the external hard drive. Reset preferences on the iTunes to the new non-partitioned external hard drive. Yep I can hear you all groan at my stupidity. Opened iTunes only to realize my mistake. All the songs, movies, tv shows etc all have that "!" next to it because I have obviously broken the links! Anyway that I can save myself hours and hours of painful locating each song and show?