I’ll admit it was a problem that I had created myself: I had moved my iTunes library from one computer to another. Then I tried syncing it across two computers. Add in a bunch of music from SXSW, along with other music given to me along the way, and before I knew it, my iTunes library was a 160GB mess. Worse, it was overwhelming. I never listened to any music because i knew that I was going to be frustrated by duplication and a bunch of songs that I didn’t enjoy.
So a few weeks ago I declared iTunes bankruptcy. I moved my ~/Music/iTunes library to my Desktop. I launched iTunes while holding down the option/alt key on my Mac and created a new library. It was completely empty, and full of possibility.
Click “Read More” to see what I did to restore sanity to my iTunes database.
TUAWiTunes bankruptcy, step one: The Great Purge originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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