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Where has all my music gone!!!!????

Being a self professed IT geek and lover of my music I was distraught when I opened my iTunes this morning and got an error from iTunes stating "The folder iTunes cannot be found or created". After much messing around, I remembered that windows points to registry points for the my pictures folder and rummaged through there and to my delight found that there was also a music entry for this and my entry was blank for one and pointing to a removable hard drive for the other. So to save someone else who is stressing over this is what I did to fix it:

 Go to Start --->Run --->regedit ---->Edit --->Find---->Win2KMyMusicFolder and modify the value "My Music" for your complete data path i.e. (C:\Documents and Settings\bob123\My Documents\My Music

There are two entries you need to change,their exact locations are

hkey_current_user - software - microsoft - windows - current version - explorer - shell folders

and

as above - windows - current version - explorer - USER shell folders

Once i changed this, i opened itunes again and all my music was back and itunes was working.

I hope this helps someone else

Gregg

Published 30 July 2007 15:16 by Shahidul.Alam

Comments

 

Derek.Dunlop said:

This can also happen if your music folder is linked on a network. iTunes loves to set itself to its prefered default location C:\Documents and Settings\bob123\My Documents\My Music...

However if you decide that you do not want your iTunes stored there and want to relocate and change the settings within the iTunes player - you may still have to do the above as it seems iTunes will default to this location on Windows.

I had many a morning where my iTunes library decided to evaporate, I unplugged the network and lo and behold there was my iTunes library there in all it's glory!(and yes even though it was never in that location in the first place...)

D

July 30, 2007 21:55
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