disappearing music...

[fisherking]

my GF called me over tonite; half of her iTunes library is missing. whole albums, even everything by certain artists...

i checked the music folder itself, and none of it is there. so, somehow....all these things were deleted.

unfortunately, she has a new backup drive (from november)...and none of it is there. so this is not new...

most of it's from amazon, so...replaceable. a bunch of albums from (no longer owned) cds. ugh.

the real question is: any idea what could have happened? it's clean, i.e. not one album has a song or 2 left, it's definitely entire albums.

weird...
any ideas???

 

[Ravenis]

Check this out:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1408

 

[fisherking]

Check this out:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1408

thanx, but...nothing that really applies here, but...will do some more research.
any other ideas, anyone?

 

[fisherking]

interesting thread on the apple forums about this, a scary number of posts.
may be related to syncing with her iPhone... it's too clean to be random...

 

[fisherking]

so...ran data recovery on the mbp...3 hours later, had THOUSANDS of mp3s, but no structure (and lots of odd-named files); her music is there, but a lot more stuff too (including files from 3 years ago, when the macbook was mine).

so really...useless. so 1/2 of her library deleted itself (possibly, as i mentioned, when syncing with the iPhone). unbelievable.