Hi, If your iTunes Library.xml file is still on your Desktop, then you should have been able to put it back into the iTunes folder and regained access to your Playlists. I agree, there seems to be something bigger going here and it's difficult to diagnose via eMail. Try holding down the Option key while iTunes is starting up. This will force iTunes to ask you to choose your Library file. At this point, tell it to create a new one. This will essentially create a second iTunes Library file for you while maintain the same list of media files, so no duplication using up space. It will, though, lose your playlists and such. Try creating some new ones and running iTunes from that new Library for a while. If it crashes again, then there's something problematic with the contents of the iTunes app and we'll have do do something different.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-06-12, at 10:49 AM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, ok, it didn't eat the file. But I can't open it. After getting the > library rebuilt and thereby losing all of my playlists, not a happy story, it > opened fine exactly twice. And now, no dice again. Same error message about > the library file having been made with a newer version of itunes than the one > I have. After years of flawless operation, I think I have an evil poltergeist > in my Mac. Clearly, there is something going on here that it just more than a > simple file corruption problem. It just shouldn't happen again that fast. > > Mary > > Mary Otten > motte...@gmail.com > > > -- > 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?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
