Music Deleted From Playlist, Library and Computer
A couple of months ago, I must have accidentally deleted a playlist while trying to add songs from another playlist to it. (Let's call the playlist Favorite Songs. When I synced my iPhone to my iMac, there was suddenly a Favorite Songs and Favorite Songs 1 playlist. I dragged and dropped all the songs from Favorite Songs 1 into Favorite Songs and hit skip for the duplicate additions, then meant to delete Favorite Songs 1 and keep FS. Both seemed to have been deleted.)
I noticed recently that I couldn't find several of my favorite songs on my library or computer. Then I went through a couple of albums and realized that perhaps 2,000 or more songs were completely deleted from the computer with the playlists several months ago. I researched this and I've never found anything like this happening. I don't need the playlist back, just the songs.
So, here's where it gets complicated. I have my Apple Music Library backed up to the Cloud and it syncs every time I open Apple Music on my iMac. But I opened the iCloud Library and didn't find those songs in there-- maybe I didn't look in the right place. There are a couple other options:
- I have a hard drive of a lot of my music, but not all of it. On that drive is a file with my iTunes/Apple Music library from a couple of years ago, so some of the songs I've lost will be on it, but not nearly all. Would restoring or opening that file from the hard drive cause issues with my current Apple Music, such as loss of all the songs that have been added to it since?
- Could I restore my Apple Music to a few months ago, trying to maybe find a time when those songs were on there? Would the files I've added to my computer still be there and could maybe be added to the Apple Music library... or would those, too, be lost?
iMac 24″, macOS 13.1
