iTunes error says it was damaged and all playlists and settings are gone! help!
So I opened iTunes the other day and while my music is all still on my computer all of my playlists and settings are gone and it is telling me to re add all my music to itunes. When I opened it up some error message saying it was damaged came up. I tried calling apple but they are telling me I have to pay $50 just to talk to someone. Is there a way to restore all of my stuff to the way it was? I have a Mac Book Pro from June 06.
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The most recent one is listed as from November. Does that mean the stuff I added since then won't be there? I'll have to add it manually? Will this mess with anything like my iPhone I sync to my laptop?
Yeah the new stuff won't be there but you just add it back in. It shouldn't affect the iPhone, if anything is missing from iTunes that was on the phone, like new apps, it will pull them back off the phone into iTunes.
good luck
After this is straightened out... invest in a cheap external drive for use with time machine. Time machine has saved me from a total of three hard drive failures and one motherboard failure. Then you too can give smug advice to unfortunate strangers.
I did that and got a "WD My passport for mac" cheap but useless, had to pay somebody to restore some files. The phone support was also useless and just spoke to me in "geek technology speak" Am gonna get a Lacie.
cheers
alan
PS you get what you pay for, cheap or expensive!