iTunes Library Mysteriously Deletes Itself

[katharrine]

And I have no back up.

I am so confused! Just a few days ago I was watching my purchased iTunes version of Zoolander and listening to my music. Today, NONE of these files can be found.

A few facts:
- I don't have my music backed up
- My music is all on my computer HD, not an external.
- I used Mac Helpmate a few days ago (can't remember if it was before iTunes was last functioning) and it cleaned some stuff.
- Nothing in my Trash but I probably emptied it recently, too.
- I use iTunes 7.
- Spotlight search shows NO relevant searches. The files are all gone. It's as if they never existed. No folders, no music files, no previous libraries, nothing.
- HD says there's 40 some GB available when I should have far less. The music files are gone. Gone. Gone.

I'm pretty angry that this could even happen. Does anyone have any ideas? Is it something that I did? Has this ever happened to anyone else? Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

sounds like you accidentally deleted them. There's almost no way, unless you downloaded and launched a malicious apple script, that your computer did it itself.

 

[sonictonic]

I sincerely feel bad for you because I know the pain... but NO backup?! I hope this can at least be a good lesson to you...

There are lots of good backup options these days that don't take much effort...

 

[katharrine]

Yeah trust me, I'm no longer using my External HD for movies over backing up now. Too bad I learned this lesson a few weeks ago when I accidentally deleted my /private folder but I couldn't back anything extra up because my External is in Socal and I'm in Norcal.

*sigh* Oh well, I must've accidentally deleted them somehow. Thanks for the feedback. I was just wondering if perhaps anyone else had encountered a similar phenomenon.

 

[kalex]

superduper or carbon copy, use them. drives are cheap so no reason not to have one