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iTunes 11.4 and "*.Strings" files

I have an old "cheese grater" MacPro (best product Apple ever made, by the way) with iTunes 11.4 running on 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.  I recently had a hard drive issue (bad sectors, it seems), which was largely resolved, but it left some iTunes files unreadable.  It appears that all/many of the *.Strings files (eg "Dutch.Strings", "English.Strings" through "zh_TW.Strings") are unreadable and can't be recovered.

Short version of my question:

Does iTunes need these files, or are they just useless cruft left over from the install?

If these files are needed, where's the best source for me to get them?

Is there a way to get them without reinstalling the OS on this computer/this drive?

See below for more.

FWIW, I'm running a US English OS, and AFAIK I have no need for Dutch, Chinese, etc. strings.  Well, I probably need "English.Strings" (I assume these are text strings used in the UI, not synthesized British violins and cellos...).

Background: Yes, this is an old Mac, old OS and old iTunes.  I have a modern Mac here too, but for my own reasons I want to keep the old Mac Pro alive. I don't expect it to run current software but for older versions it's a wonderful computer.

More details: The missing files are all from this path:

Users/<username>/Music/iTunes/Automatically Add to iTunes/.localized/

Even More Details: My Mac Pro has multiple internal drives.  One day about a week ago, the internal drive I had mostly been using as the primary boot drive (lets call that "Drive B") wouldn't boot.  After trying a few of the usual startup tricks and still failing to boot off Drive B, I started up off another internal drive which was running 10.10.5 Yosemite (lets call that "Drive A") and it booted fine (this Mac did not really run well under Yosemite but it did boot and run).  I then (while booted off Drive A) used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the contents of Drive B onto an external drive (lets call that "Drive M"). I was able to boot off of internal Drive A or external Drive M, but internal Drive B still wouldn't boot.  I booted off of Drive M (direct clone of Drive B with 10.6.8) and I then cloned Drive B (10.6.8 but non-bootable) to Drive A (reformatted that first and blew away Yosemite).  So now I had 2 clones of the original Drive B (cloned to both Drive M and Drive A).  Both booted and ran fine.  I used the Mac booted from Drive A for several days (I'm using it now) with no problems.  I've run Disk Utility to repair/verify things on Drive B but it still won't boot.  Something on Drive B is obviously preventing it from booting, and since things seem fine with Drive A, yesterday I cloned Drive A onto Drive B.  In theory, that would have restored everything that was on B previously, but from a drive that was bootable.  That seems to have worked, but with one issue: cloning from Drive A to Drive B, Carbon Copy Cloner reported that 35 files were unreadable because they were sitting on bad sectors of the source drive.  The 35 files were "Dutch.Strings" through "zh_TW.Strings".

This means that I have bad sectors on my "good" internal drive - Drive A (that was the source of the Clone operation), and that these *.Strings files are now unreadable on that drive, and upon closer examination I see they are also missing from the cloned backup on Drive B (I also checked the equivalent files on the external Drive M - those files are missing there, too).  So, these iTunes files are unreadable on Drive A, missing on Drive B and Drive M.  I have not launched iTunes from any of these drives since the incident (but will want to eventually).

I do use iTunes on this computer, so I'd like to restore the required files (presumably just "English.Strings").  But that (using iTunes) is really just a secondary concern, as I want to deal with the bad sectors on Drive A (to prevent anything more serious from occurring).  My plan is to:

1. Locate and restore any needed ".Strings" files.

2. Reformat Drive B with the Security options turned up (my understanding is that this tests for bad sectors and marks any found so the OS won't attempt to use them subsequently) and them re-clone the contents of Drive A to Drive B, manually adding in the missing ".Strings" files.

3. Once Drive B is healthy and complete (with iTunes tested) then reformat Drive A (with Security on to mark out bad sectors) and Clone the healthy & complete Drive B back to Drive A, ensuring two "good" drives.  If I start seeing more bad sectors, I may just replace the drives, but want to get things corrected with the installations first.

It now occurs to me (as I've been writing this up...I guess that does help one clarify the logic...) that one relatively simple way for me to obtain the (currently missing) ".Strings" files for iTunes would be to install 10.6.8 to yet another external drive (I have extras sitting around that I could use), grab the 35 ".Strings" files from there, and simply copy those to the current iTunes installation on Drive B.  Does that seem likely to be successful?

Insights and knowledgable input appreciated.  Thank you!

Delete the Automatically Add to iTunes folder. iTunes will rebuild it.

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最後更新：2017-09-05 03:41:42

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