For avoiding the big downside—one system crash or failed hard drive, you may lose everything you've spent hours ripping from CDs or, even worse, purchasing from the iTunes Music Store, you may have backed up your iTunes library to prevent the loss of your precious files. But what if you want to reinstall iTunes library on your Mac (OS X Mavericks and Mountain Lion included) after some accident or something? Don't worry, here you will find the answer about the iTunes restore:
- Feb 02, 2015 I was not able to solve this problem, hence I decided to open this discussion. Recently, I clean installed Yosemite so my new Mac is completely empty. I have my time machine backup on my eternal hard drive and would like to restore only specific things - such as iTunes library.
- 2020-3-27 Restore lost photos with Mac data recovery software; 2. Retrieve Photos Library with photos from Times Machine backup. Restore lost photos with EaseUS Mac data recovery software. If you didn't create a backup of Photos Library in the Time Machine, you'll need Mac data recovery software to help. We recommend you try EaseUS Data.
- Restore a library from Time Machine in Photos on Mac. If you back up your Mac with Time Machine, you can easily restore a photo library to its state when the last backup was performed. Note: If you use iCloud Photos and you restore the System Photo Library from a Time Machine backup, any photos you’ve deleted since the last Time Machine.
- It is a third-party iTunes library management tool that is highly spoken of by users and well-known media. You can use to get back your damaged/missing iTunes library ensuring no loss of data, backup media files from any device to your iTunes library, restore your previous iTunes library with the backup on any device and at any time.
Condition 1:
If you back up iTunes library to CD/DVD disc, then for restoring iTunes library, you then could follow this:
- Open iTunes and insert your backup disc.
- Then iTunes will ask whether you want to restore iTunes from this disc. Click Restore.
The next two conditions show you how to restore iTunes playlists:
Condition 2:
If you have an iPod touch/iPhone/iPad and want to transfer media files to your Mac or iTunes, then you can use iTransfer for Mac to sync these files back to your iTunes library in only a single click. This Mac app won't require you to open your iTunes to restore iTunes from backup. It allows you to transfer music and playlists with rating and play counts without any duplicate contents. Here take iPhone for example:
Step 1: Install iTransfer for Mac on the computer and launch it, then connect your iPhone to Mac. By doing this, iTransfer will detect your iPhone automatically. The smart Mac app supports the newest iOS 10 and other versions, and it can work on MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and iMac.
Select the iPhoto library and click on the 'Recover' button to restore deleted photos from iPhoto on Mac. Recover Deleted iPhoto Library from 'Recently Deleted' on Mac. If you’ve used iPhoto for a long time, you must know that there is an option 'Recently Deleted' in iPhoto library on Mac. Mar 24, 2020 How to manually back up your iTunes library. If you're not employing a Mac-wide backup service (really, you should get on that), or if you just want to manually back up your iTunes library separately, here's how to go about that. Consolidate your library.
Step 2: From the main window, click “Rebuild iTunes Library”. In the pop-up window, please confirm the operation by clicking “Start”, letting the software scan media files on your device. Choose Music tab on the new windows and click on Start to let the software transfer music to your itunes Library.
While if you just want to transfer some songs, videos or photos from iPhone to Mac/iTunes, you can go to 'Music', 'Videos' and 'Photos' tab to select the files you want, and then click the 'Export' to Mac or iTunes library.
Condition 3:
Restore Itunes Library Mac
If you back-upped iTunes to external hard drive or other places, you can import your playlists like this to restore iTunes backup:
Restore Itunes Library Time Machine
- Connect the external hard drive to Mac and open iTunes.
- Head to 'File'> 'Library'> 'Import playlists…' .