ITunes library transfer - Help, please!!!!

[Charlie Jefferson]

It seems I have retrieved my 18,000 songs from a "damaged" ext. hard drive, and using a data recovery programme transferred them to another external drive.

However, when I try to consolidate iTunes library not much happens. I've re-set the iTunes preferences to match the new external drive but nothing will play.

If I click on the new drive I can see a number of folders in there. One of which, entitled "Root", seems to contain every song in group order.
How do I match/sync this folder with my iTunes, and enable the playback of these (hopefully) restored files?

Fingers crossed for an answer even I can't mess up.

 

[Anonymous]

Have you added the new folder to the library?

 

[Anonymous]

http://forums.ilounge.com/forumdisplay.php?s=6e5a30f3da8892fea07a9ff25925a8a0&f=97

Have a looky here....the answer you require is in there somewhere.

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Thanks for that.

Almost sorted. Songs are all restored and accessible but I seem to have duplicated the import of the entire library. I now have 36,000 songs not 18,000. The facsimile files are unplayable - "file cannot be found". So I must have made a previous error or they are the "original" files from the previous HD.

Other than laboriously clicking on each one manually, is there a more direct method of excising the bogus songs en masse?

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Done it. Case closed.

(Hopefully).