http://forums.cnet.com/ The latest posts in iTunes Library Disappears Regularly. http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/cobd/cnet/cnet_88x31.gif http://forums.cnet.com/ 31 88 CNET.com CNET http://www.cnet.com This question is a lot more complicated and detailed than the ones I see in your question and answers pieces. I have ru ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5226961.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5226961.html 04 Nov 2011 12:20:03 PDT I came across another forum that suggests that running an &quot;HP Simple Save&quot; backup drive is the problem. I run ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296472.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296472.html 07 Apr 2012 23:34:27 PDT We went on vacation and I put the HP drive away for safe keeping. Came back and noticed iTunes had not gone down for ove ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296496.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296496.html 08 Apr 2012 05:16:28 PDT This exact same thing happens to me regularly, and I'm about to throw my computer out the window. I've got an HP &quot;A ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296439.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296439.html 07 Apr 2012 23:09:21 PDT Ever since I took the HP simple save off of my computer, I have not had this issue. That my problem was my back up took ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296544.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296544.html 08 Apr 2012 09:01:58 PDT <a href="http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Other-HP-Consumer-Products-and/HP-SimpleSave-and-iTunes/td-p/542783" target="_blan ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296589.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296589.html 08 Apr 2012 12:59:23 PDT I run Vista, as noted above. I have every available patch on the compter. So it is not a lack of my patches. I had th ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296661.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296661.html 08 Apr 2012 19:05:55 PDT I think you are right. Today, no one is as accepting of the bugs like we were just a few years ago.<br><br>Folk don't w ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296669.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5296669.html 08 Apr 2012 22:30:24 PDT explicitly mentioned, I guess it can be assumed.<br><br>That said, I wonder if the external was ever formatted as NTFS o ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5227258.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5227258.html 05 Nov 2011 05:28:35 PDT so that should be properly configured. I don't pull in any thin gfom the back up external drive; I don;t see how that c ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5227475.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5227475.html 05 Nov 2011 14:58:30 PDT so where do you &quot;pull everything over&quot; to?<br><br>Is the library that keeps disappearing on an internal or ext ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5227664.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5227664.html 06 Nov 2011 08:48:52 PST The music files never leave my hard drive, iTunes just shows up blank every now and then. ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5227794.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5227794.html 06 Nov 2011 16:16:19 PST Finally another instance and here's what we found.<br><br>The machine's owner was using registry cleansers.<br><br>-&gt; ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5231532.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5231532.html 15 Nov 2011 07:32:11 PST I have never put them on, but that doesn't mean someone in the family hasn't downloaded some without my knowledge. Will ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5231789.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5231789.html 15 Nov 2011 11:09:16 PST OK. I got back to town and looked and there is a CCleaner, which my wife tells me she runs once a week. Now the questi ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5233597.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5233597.html 19 Nov 2011 09:28:59 PST While I haven't heard of CCleaner doing this with stock settings. I wonder. Let's look into that.<br><br><a href="http ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5233661.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5233661.html 19 Nov 2011 11:56:31 PST There may also be something in the Norton Suite Comcast provides. I am going to stop that as well. Could be one or the ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5233715.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5233715.html 19 Nov 2011 14:23:57 PST I shut down the Norton Suite that comes with Comcast and deleted CCleaner but alas, this happened again. At least we kn ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5236269.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5236269.html 25 Nov 2011 08:21:51 PST When the library is on some external drive.<br><br>I fear I know of no cure for that except to use an internal drive.<br ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5226967.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5226967.html 04 Nov 2011 12:54:52 PDT The iTunes is on the internal drive of the computer. I do have an external backup, but no programs are mapped to that. ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5227259.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-21570_102-5227259.html 05 Nov 2011 05:29:26 PDT