If the problem you are facing get resolved then you can prevent yourself from facing the same problem again by checking iTunes Media Folder Organized option in iTunes. Except for the above methods, here is a powerful iTunes repair tool that you can use to fix missing music files. After launching iTunes, you will see the main interface as below. Click iTunes Repair panel on it. Step 2. And head to Scan Now button. Next, AnyFix will scan the iTunes components errors. Once finished, click Fix Now button.
Just click Yes to give AnyFix authorization to help you. Step 5. Once AnyFix gets authorization, it will start the repairing process. Wait a minute and you will see Repair Completed page. Then you can click Open iTunes button to check if the problem is resolved. If not, you can choose Deep Repair mode to fix this problem. Page content loaded. The "missing file" issue with exclamation marks happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it.
Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, one of its parent folders, or the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter, or you've moved a non-portable library to a different path see Make a split library portable for details. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout, or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place, or that you've been too aggressive when deleting duplicates.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to Get Info, then click No when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the file tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive s. Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, a folder renamed, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
If the difference between the two paths is an additional Music folder in one path then this is a layout issue. I can explain further if that is the case. This is because the music file associated with the iTunes track you're trying to play has either been moved or deleted from the original place that it was stored.
When songs were added to iTunes, iTunes saved the file path that it needed to follow every time it needed to access the song. Now that the file is no longer where iTunes expects it to be, iTunes does not know where to find it.
If you think that the songs marked with exclamation points can still be located somewhere on your hard drive, you can correct their media file path in iTunes as detailed below:.
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