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[wildcrafter]

I had just ripped some new CD's into Media Center 19. I went back and two of five had disappeared. Empty folders were all that was left in Windows 7. I ripped them again and went back into Recent Albums and two of my most recent downloads from HD Tracks had vanished. All that is left in the computer are the PDF files for the art. How do I get them back?

[glynor]

Media Center does not automatically move files.  Assuming you're not leaving out a substantial number of intervening steps, something else is moving them, or your filesystem is horribly broken.

Check the disk for corruption:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Troubleshooting_Disks

If chkdsk finds all sorts of errors, then you may have larger issues.  If that comes back clean, then search for them in Windows Explorer and find out where they're being moved.  That might give you a clue as to what application is moving them.

iTunes does automatically reorganize files, so it could be iTunes.

[astromo]

Check the disk for corruption:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Troubleshooting_Disks

If chkdsk finds all sorts of errors, then you may have larger issues.

As coincidence would have, earlier this week I discovered that I couldn't access a folder in one of my music directories.

Ran chkdsk and I was back on an even keel in no time.

[stevemac]

iTunes does automatically reorganize files, so it could be iTunes.

+ 1 on this.

For me

• 1st action was to stop i-tunes from organising the files
• 2nd action was to create a 2nd respository of audio files for itunes to use.  I did this as individual files (tracks) would still go missing.  I don't believe it was MC doing this, rather itunes (and it took me a couple of months to notice the issue).  Separating the two stopped it (I'm not aware of anyone else having this issue, but apple / itunes forums had reports of files going missing (along the lines of itunes had detected something 'wrong' with them & removed them without notification to the user).

When creating the 2nd repository I took the opportunity to re-rip everyhting I had as lossless & configured MC to use it

Steve