Cheers David, I only saw the message recommending iTunes folder watch. Could you clarify exactly which files and folders I should delete before rebuilding? Would prefer to avoid corrupting anything or deleting the wrong thing.

Cheers
Sunil

Sunil Peck
Journalist and Web Content Producer
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On 21 Nov 2012, at 10:49, David Reynolds wrote:

Sunil,

You are best off clearing the library and rebuilding as recommended in my
last message. Believe it or not, it won't take that long.

Best,

David.

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From: Bcab [mailto:bcab-bounces@lists.bcab.org.uk] On Behalf Of Sunil Peck
Sent: 21 November 2012 09:46
To: BCAB Discussion List
Subject: Re: [BCAB] Tidying up iTunes library

Cheers David,

This sounds good. So once I use it to relocate all my files, will iTunes
automatically clean up all the redundant shortcuts that pointed to the same
files in different locations?

Sunil

Sunil Peck
Journalist and Web Content Producer
020 7619 7325
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On 20 Nov 2012, at 20:28, David Reynolds wrote:

Sunil,

You may want to consider a utility called Itunes Folder Watch. I can't find
where I got it from at the moment, but a google search should get it for
you.
Once installed, you can get it to search specified folders for music, and it
adds them to the itunes  library. It takes a lot less time than trying to
rebuild it manually.

Best,

David.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bcab [mailto:bcab-bounces@lists.bcab.org.uk] On Behalf Of Sunil Peck
Sent: 20 November 2012 15:10
To: BCAB Discussion List
Subject: [BCAB] Tidying up iTunes library

Hi,

I've shifted a lot of files around and deleted a lot of duplicate files in
my documents since I first built an iTunes library on my computer. Because I
manipulated the files in Finder as opposed to doing it from within iTunes,
there are a lot of shortcuts in iTunes that point towards files that have
either been moved or deleted. Because there are so many instances of this I
thought I may as well delete my iTunes library and build a new one. I don't
have any playlists and am not bothered about retaining play counts or
anything.

Is there an alternative to starting all over again, maybe a menu option I
could activate from an options menu in iTunes? If not, what file to I need
to delete? I'd like to avoid deleting any important system files.

Thanks a lot,

Sunil

Sunil Peck
Journalist and Web Content Producer
020 7619 7325
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