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chrisc:
Woke up one morning and the music HDD was inaccessible

Restored the files from a backup, but then noticed each album had 2 of each track instead of one.  After several days of fruitless fiddling about, I exported the Playlists to a .CSV file, deleted the entire library and imported it again

Now, the question is, how to import these playlists?

Tried File/Import playlist and pointed it to the csv file.  Nothing occurs

Is there another way please?   Am a bit desperate to get it done, since there are many playlists which have been compiled for concerts I give at retirement villages (two a week) and the one is this afternoon

Thank you

JimH:
If the files are in the same place, you can restore a backup of MC's library.  Files > Library > Restore.

chrisc:
The crashed drive seems to have a different name from its replacement.  After restoring the library as suggested (and what I did after attaching a new external drive), the report was that the file could not be found (little red - marks against each track).  Then did an import, there were now duplicated tracks, so I realised I was going backwards

Only the Playlists are needed.  If they can be exported, cannot they be imported?

Its possible to create it manually, but as my IT friend says:  Computers are here to make life easy.

JimH:
If after the restore the files aren't found, the location may be wrong.  You can edit it with the Find and Replace Tool to change the drive or path.  The wiki has a topic called Moving Files that has more information.

blgentry:
I've used the Rename, Move, and Copy files tool so many times that I'm pretty good at it.  I could fix your problem, if I was in front of your copy of MC, in about 5 minutes.

But it's hard to describe how to do it.  You could read the wiki article on it and probably figure it out.

All that said, I think Jim's original idea is really the fastest path to fixing your problem:

Rename your new drive to be the same name as the original drive.  Then the music files will all have the EXACT path they used to have and your library will work exactly right from a library restore.

I believe you can easily change the name of a disk drive from Finder, or perhaps from Disk Utility.  I'm not in front of my Mac now, so I can't be sure.

Good luck!

Brian.

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