a7dk
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Hi everyone. It finally happened (it was bound to, eventually) - my hard drive crashed. Fortunately, all my music and other media files were backed up onto an external drive, so the files are fine. However, when I reimported the files into iTunes after getting a new hard drive, all my ratings & playcounts, etc. were gone. So I am thinking of getting Copytrans to copy the files back with all the metadata since that is a major component of how my music is organized. So now I have a couple of questions.
1. My iTunes library is currently populated like a brand-new library, with all my songs but no metadata. My ipod, on the other hand, is still fine since I have yet to sync it. If I use Copytrans to copy the files back, do I first need to empty iTunes or will the program know to replace the files with the ones from the ipod?
2. Once I copy all the files back into iTunes, will iTunes still recognize these files as the same ones currently housed in my external hard drive? Will it still sync properly?
I've never had to do this before so please feel free to add any other advice you think is prudent.
Thank you!
1. My iTunes library is currently populated like a brand-new library, with all my songs but no metadata. My ipod, on the other hand, is still fine since I have yet to sync it. If I use Copytrans to copy the files back, do I first need to empty iTunes or will the program know to replace the files with the ones from the ipod?
2. Once I copy all the files back into iTunes, will iTunes still recognize these files as the same ones currently housed in my external hard drive? Will it still sync properly?
I've never had to do this before so please feel free to add any other advice you think is prudent.
Thank you!