[muglo] Re: there's a reason I didn't backup my HD before

>The files were in my music folder on the left menu bar when I double 
>clicked my mouse on that icon. That was all that showed under that 
>icon, which was about 50 files in the folder. When I dragged those 
>files in the folder to the trash, and emptied the trash, ALL my 
>itune files diappeared, including my podcasts, from my desktop HD 
>AND my external HD, where I had backed up my entire desktop HD. 
>There is NOTHING in my backup itunes folder, or the original itunes 
>folder on the desktop HD.
>
>The file iTunes Library is only a directory. You trashed the 
>directory, so iTunes now doesn't know anything about the songs, or 
>where they are. Presumably, they are in the backup still. Correct?
>
>if my reading is correct here, you need to restore the files from the 
>backup
>
>If you want to clear up some hard drive - or as you say 'clear up the 
>memory from your desktop', you'll need to store the music files on 
>another hard drive. Not your backup drive. Not your main drive.
>
>Put an alias of the restored iTunes Library in the place where iTunes 
>expects the document to be, and iTunes will find the file at the new 
>location.
>
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