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iPod friend tried to Update iPod, now all her songs are gone. Help!

ero87

ero87

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Hey,

So my friend called me for help, and I'm turning to MR. She says that she keeps all her music on her iPod - over the years, she's deleted songs from her iTunes because her computer hard drive is tiny. So basically she only had one copy of the songs on her iPod, and she had Automatic Syncing turned off so she's never had this problem before. iTunes just told her that her iPod could be "updated" - she hit yes, and now her iPod is empty.

Is there any way for her to get those files back? Some kind of savior program that can find those files somewhere on her harddrive?

Thanks so much for help :)
 
PCMacUser

PCMacUser

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Jan 13, 2005
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ero87 said:
Hey,

So my friend called me for help, and I'm turning to MR. She says that she keeps all her music on her iPod - over the years, she's deleted songs from her iTunes because her computer hard drive is tiny. So basically she only had one copy of the songs on her iPod, and she had Automatic Syncing turned off so she's never had this problem before. iTunes just told her that her iPod could be "updated" - she hit yes, and now her iPod is empty.

Is there any way for her to get those files back? Some kind of savior program that can find those files somewhere on her harddrive?

Thanks so much for help :)
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I think it reformats the iPod, which means data recovery would be a job for computer forensics people. They can usually recover data from any kind of hard disk incident. But it costs a few hundred dollars and I don't know if it'll be worth it for her.
 
ero87

ero87

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PCMacUser said:
I think it reformats the iPod, which means data recovery would be a job for computer forensics people. They can usually recover data from any kind of hard disk incident. But it costs a few hundred dollars and I don't know if it'll be worth it for her.
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ugh, it's probably not worth it...

anyone know any other ideas? or any super-cheap data recovery methods?
 
DENZIE

DENZIE

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if it is the ipod video I believe there have been some problems upgrading to the lastest firmware when the latest itunes (7.5) isn't installed.

However the work around is just to upgrade itunes to the lastest version and you should see your music again.

Plus, upgrading the ipod firmware does NOT format it
 
ero87

ero87

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DENZIE said:
if it is the ipod video I believe there have been some problems upgrading to the lastest firmware when the latest itunes (7.5) isn't installed.

However the work around is just to upgrade itunes to the lastest version and you should see your music again.

Plus, upgrading the ipod firmware does NOT format it
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thanks, I'm going to tell her to try that!
 
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