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Hi everyone
Due to 10 or 20 mis-guided clicks, I royally messed up my Music library. I ended up manually deleting on purpose many files, but of course Music does not know they are missing until I try to play it.
What is the best way to rebuild a catalog that removes deleted files, or at least makes it easy to identify the missing files other than clicking one at a time?
TIA
John
Mac Pro, macOS 14.6
See https://dougscripts.com/itunes/2019/10/list-mias-v5-0/.
Or you can try this method from iTunes which I believe still works in Music.
Lost & Found Playlists
Create a playlist called Found, select everything in the Songs view (Cmd+A) and drag it into the Found playlist. Create a smart playlist called Lost with the rule Playlist is not Found and matching with Music items. Your missing tracks will be in this playlist. You should be able to bulk delete from from the library. (Select then Option+Delete.)
tt2
Thanks yet again, TT2. I'll see if I can make this work.
John
Identifying missing files in Music
