# Screwed up my music pretty bad

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/screwed-up-my-music-pretty-bad/211884>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [January 6, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/screwed-up-my-music-pretty-bad/211884 "2007-01-06T00:54:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![ApixDesigns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@ApixDesigns](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ApixDesigns)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/screwed-up-my-music-pretty-bad/211884/1 "2007-01-06T00:54:41Z")

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Alright, well last night i was cleaning up my hard drive, clearing out space, deleting old files…etc. In Itunes i selected “consolidate library” because i thought it would put all my music into one folder, then i could delete my other folders (when i download songs they go to “new music” when i download torrents they go to “my torrents” then i manually add each folder). so i consolidated my library, checked to see if all my most recent songs i added to itunes were in there. It appeared that most everything was.

I deleted my “new music” folder and the music from “my torrents”. i was happy cuz i cleared up a few gigs of space. Today when i go into itunes I was scrolling through my library. ALOT of songs have that little ! beside them meaning that the source file could not be found. I tried to check where itunes consolidated my library to but in some of my artists(the ones that i added awhile ago) almost all the songs were gone! i emptied my recycling bin and all that crap too last night. \*\*\*\* YOU ITUNES!!!:skull:

anyone know what i can do? or have a program that i can recover the files that i deleted (even though i emptied the recycle bin?)