Have I just deleted all my stuff?!

[Draeconis]

I updated my iTunes Library to iTunes Plus just now, but my Mac wasn't connected to my drive with my music on, so it downloaded it locally to another iTunes folder.

When I copied the local folder across to my external drive to consolidate it, it's wound up overwriting the entire music folder with just the tracks it downloaded just now.

Have I basically deleted all my music? The drive isn't covered by my Time Machine, which only backs up my Mac (due to space limitations).

 

[oli2140]

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[SHADO]

I've heard good things about Data Rescue II.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Data Rescue 2 is the very best for data recovery (speaking form experience.)

 

[Matek]

OS X handles this operation slightly differently than windows, too bad you had to learn about it on such a severe case

 

[windowpain]

Is it too late to try 'edit' 'undo' ?

If you need to consolidate files there is a consolidate option in the itunes.

You could also try contacting apple and telling them what happened, I believe they let you redownload any songs you have bought from the itunes store. (It may be a one time thing though..so back things up on a dvd just in case.)

Edit: link

 

[Draeconis]

Cheers for the replies guys, I've emailed Apple and hopefully should be able to get the other bits of my Library back! I've had OS X for nearly a year, unforgivable mistake

 

[cawesjmu]

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