Hello Denise, The short answer to your question is that the items listed in your iTunes Library interface are merely pointers to the actual files on your computer/network. They, the items listed that is, are not the source files, themselves.
It's really no different than having a sign on the street point you in a certain direction in order to get to a specific store. The store may burn down or change locations but the sign, still points you in that same old direction unless someone updates/changes it. With this in mind, you can see that although the sign points to the store, the sign is not directly linked to the store. As a result, in order for the sign to be accurate with regard to the location of the store, it must be manually updated to point in the correct direction. As for your specific issue, at some point and for whatever reason, the source file to which your iTunes Item is pointing has been in some way either moved, deleted, or renamed. Mark -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of denise avant Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 6:00 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: itunes 12 problem Hello all, I recently went to locate a song in itunes 12 that has been in my library for several versions of itunes now. the song is listed, but itunes cannot play it because it could not find it, and has offered me the chance to locate it. what happened to cause this problem? And while is it listed in the library if cannot be found there? thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
