I revisited the previous data backup and recovery job today. The data was recovered by PC world and copied to an external USB drive before I got there. PC World appears to have missed a few important folders and data spaces, but since we had the original drive (and there was nothing wrong with it) I set it up inside my USB/CAT5 caddy. Finding the data on the drive was no problem, allowing me to complete the transfer.
iTunes is annoying. Very annoying. iTunes simply would not recognise the library data even though everything was copied over correctly. I ended up creating a fake library location on the new machine to correspond with the location used by the old PC. I then managed to get iTunes to detect and import this data (after authorising everything!) At this point iTunes was happy, but I wasn’t. The data was in the wrong place. Moving the data folder in iTunes and Consolidating the data moved the files where I wanted them. Now to clean up all of the crap required to keep iTunes happy. Why do they make this so difficult? There is no need to do all of this work. Just create a folder structure and work within it please, don’t route all the XML data with hard paths, that’s just annoying.
Anyway, with iTunes kicked and accepting its fate, on to completing the data backup systems. Shared folders were built, allowing the machines to sync to each other. The client is happy using Microsoft Backup so we run this and set it off. Everything was working nicely on both machines.
Nice, except for the iTunes crap.
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