Monday, June 30, 2008

Re: [Apple iPod] Migration from XP to Vista laptop

Right-click > Properties on the iTunes Music folder gives what size on the
original and the copy?
Have you looked in iTunes Music? Do you see your artists in there?

Otto

2008/6/30 David <david@davesgoldwing.com>:

> I am going to make some assumptions so forgive me if I am wrong.
>
> You say that iTunes does not have any music. So I am assuming that you
> copied all your music files from your old PC to your new one (F:\iTunes)
> So when you say that, I suspect that you open iTunes expecting to see your
> 10K songs in your library but in-fact you see nothing in the library.
>
> I am also assuming that you did a normal install of iTunes and I would
> suspect/assume that you installed iTunes on your F drive.
>
> So with that said. Did you copy the files 'iTunes Library.itl' and 'iPod
> Games Library.itl' (option and only found if you have games) and the
> 'iTunes
> Music Library.xml' from your old PC to your new one?
> If not, did you tell iTunes to search your drive for music?
>
> The itl files contain the database information for your iTunes library and
> games. If you did not copy those files then try closing iTunes, copy the
> files from your old PC to your new one, by default they are in the
> C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\My Documents\My Music\iTunes
> Then open iTunes and see if your library shows up.


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