iPod AHH! Just deleted 8729 songs!

[eRondeau]

Just thinking.... I was in Best Buy yesterday and they had external USB2 HD's ridiculously cheap, something like 80GB for $79 and 250GB for $129. And those are Canadian prices! That about what I spend on gasoline in 3-4 days! At that price, buy one and backup your entire computer and give it to a friend for safe-keeping. Seriously. Nobody likes to think about it, but houses do burn down, and lightning does strike power lines and blow-up everything that's plugged-in, and thieves do break-in and steal computers and all the peripherals attached to them. There's nothing like an off-site backup for safety!

 

[Keebler]

it's no problem G5. just connect your external hard drive or insert your back up DVDs and retrieve your backup. not a problem.

if you have an ipod with the songs on it, there is software for you to take them from the pod back to your computer...

 

[G5Unit]

Um. Well I guess I have a more interesting story. About a month ago, I had brought my 1st gen, 5gb, in very good condition, over 4 and a half years old iPod to school. It was in my backpack and I threw my backpack. I came back later to find that the screen broke. Yet it did still play music. YAY! I showed my(sorta of duma$$) friend and he said "Oh that sucks" and dropped it on purpose, him thinking it was already broken. I didn't punch him or anything because I've already done that a few times before and I was just over it. But still I had the thing since the start of 5th grade(Now I'm in the middle of 9th). So there goes about 700 songs, not to bad I already have them on my computer. Oh and by the way, that same kid almost broke it in 7th grade and I knew form that day on he would be the one to fully break it.

Now him dropping that iPod made the hard drive go all funky, after all he dropped it from 4 feet onto cement, hey but still not a single scratch, this thing has been a tank. Now the iPod still mounts yet it is very unreliable and the screen is a blue blotch.

No now yesterday, me being the OCD person I am, I need to clean out my 300gb internal drive, and I did. So I clicked and dragged a folder called MUSIC to the trash, thinking it wasn't much since I haven't really used this drive much. Now it took FOREVER to delete and I didn't know why. Then I realized me iTunes had stopped playing.

Then I saw it, the horrible ! of doom. Turns out I just deleted my whole iTunes library! AHH! I new that I had some songs backed up somewhere, but oops, that external HD is in my sister's dorm in college, and that's only about 2000 of them, and the old ones. But hey, my dad has one and I must have backed up some there, right? Wrong, he has a PC and it's been formatted to his PC, not working with my mac.

So the only songs I have are the 180 good ones on my Palm Treo(which my dad never used and let me have), some U2, Pink Floyd, and some really old never listened to music. I'm bummed. It took me 5 YEARS to build this collection up, album art, lyrics and everything.

And this was all at 12 o clock at night...

Oh and I have a 300gb WD external coming in the mail that I ordered about 4 days ago, IF ONLY IT HAD COME FASTER!

 

[Shadow]

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Ouch...I remember once when iTunes did something with my PC and deleted all my songs when I got my first iPod (3G, 15GB). Took me weeks to recover everything. Now, I keep 2 backups on my iPod (1 for playing, 1 for storage), on my PC which I made into a NAS AND on my external HD (3 times). I sure wouldn't want to loose everything *knocks on wood* (again)!

 

[Mac'Mo]

whoa thats serious.. maybe you didn't dlete them

 

[Zwhaler]

Sorry about the situation, I lost lots of stuff off of my PC (though it was from a virus) but I know how it feels. Just hope there is a program out there that will save your songs.

 

[dextertangocci]

Over 8000 songs. Ouch I think you should get a data reovery program. Just borrow the money or something. Like you said, it took you 5 years to build your collection. $99 is worth it to get it all back, unless OSX has already written over them

 

[blaster_boy]

I rip a lot of cd's I bought to iTunes, and those I can always recuperate, so I don't worry too much about them.

Once a year or so, I launch a backup from Itunes (just do File, Backup to Disk) and insert a dvd-r or two.

And then whenever I purchase a full album, I burn it immediately as a music cd (for in the car).

That should be reasonably safe, as I also do a full backup of my home directory once or twice a year...

 

[EricNau]

Surely you still have the original CDs?

 

[dukebound85]

yea i wouldnt be too worried if you still had the cd's. just an inconvience at the moment. Just start to re-rip them and id really only do the songs you actually listen to to save hd space.

now if you by chance pirated some/most/all the songs, then yea id say its karma kicking in lol

 

[G5Unit]

yea i wouldnt be too worried if you still had the cd's. just an inconvience at the moment. Just start to re-rip them and id really only do the songs you actually listen to to save hd space.

now if you by chance pirated some/most/all the songs, then yea id say its karma kicking in lol

About 1000 of them are from CD's, 50 from itunes, and a couple hundred from when I thought Kazaa was legal(5 or 6 years ago), about 200 over the past 3 years through limewire, and the rest from my friend(around 6000).

Wow it really feels great admitting that, I really think it's just karma. Let's just hope I won't get banned for this now.

 

[EricNau]

About 1000 of them are from CD's, 50 from itunes, and a couple hundred from when I thought Kazaa was legal(5 or 6 years ago), about 200 over the past 3 years through limewire, and the rest from my friend(around 6000).

Wow it really feels great admitting that, I really think it's just karma. Let's just hope I won't get banned for this now.

What a coincidence, your location, "I'm calling the cops", describes what I'm doing right now. ...OK, just kidding.

If I were you, I would re-import your CDs and contact iTunes and request to re-download your songs using this form (although no guarantees).

As for your songs downloaded from kazaa, limewire, and "borrowed" from your friend, I'd stay away from them. After all, karma can get a lot worse.

 

[StokeLee]

After reading this thread Ive decided that even if it doesnt happen to me, I might as well be safe than sorry. Ive just ordered a new 500Gb hard drive, but i think i should put my itunes onto dvd just incase...

 

[G5Unit]

What a coincidence, your location, "I'm calling the cops", describes what I'm doing right now. ...OK, just kidding.

If I were you, I would re-import your CDs and contact iTunes and request to re-download your songs using this form (although no guarantees).

As for your songs downloaded from kazaa, limewire, and "borrowed" from your friend, I'd stay away from them. After all, karma can get a lot worse.

Yeh, well the songs are on a CD somewhere, the ones I downloaded from ITS. I think as long as I listen to only about 500 of the songs my next library will be much smaller.

 

[yg17]

Dumb question, but did you check the trash or your music folder?

iTunes either moves tracks to your trash, or leaves them where they were (depending on your settings) when you delete stuff. I don't think there's a setting to make them completely delete them :\