fucking itunes blew away all my music

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by Mike

The way i did it was to move the files using the 'consolidate music library' function within iTunes itself, and it worked like a charm. In theory what you did should have worked, but i guess using a command prompt to move into the auto add folder might produce unexpected results (and the 'automatically add to itunes' folder has been plagued with instability anyway)....

I really hope you can find your library again...

the funny thing is. . . it worked manually as I was testing. . .

copied a couple of folders to a temp location, and tested as massaged the command line to get it right.... it worked...
then cd'd to the actual folder. . . hit the up arrow to reload the command from DOSKEY and it pissed on me.

Has apple ever heard of unit testing?

I am kicking myself in the ass as I had written a C# program do do this using the Windows Media Play object library, but I shut down my computer at work and couldnt vpn into my code to get it. . . I got impatient searched the internet. . saw that iTunes addded the auto add as part of iTunes 10, and went against my better judgement and installed it.

Now to make things worse... it appears that iTunes hosed my Windows Server back up.

I did a system state backup right before installing - and now wbadmin wont start.

I know someone will think thats a windows issue. . . I assure you. . . crApple shit on my machine as it always does.