iPOD erased! NOOOOOoooooooooooooo!!!!

[Flames89]

So, have a new computer, wanted to get my music on it. Plugged in my iPod, iTunes opens, all of a sudden says: "Updating iPod", and in a minute all 6000 songs are gone, all my playlists are gone, all my ratings are gone, all my playcounts are gone, 23G's of music is gone.

I feel sick to my stomach.




DAMMMITTTTTTTT fata shinguard fata shinguard!!!

[peter12]

Ugh. Ipod sucks. I feel your pain though, it took me countless tedious hours ripping music onto my Zen. Any idea why?

[Patek23]

Do you still have all those files, or is it all down the drain. I feel your pain. I had 138 movies and 10,000 songs and my CPU crashed and it was all lost.

[Flames89]

iTunes was supposed to give me the msg of whether I wanted to auto-sync, since it was a new computer.

holy shinguard, am I angry.

It will take me about 20 hours of straight ripping just to get my music back on. Then there is all the music I had acquired from elsewhere ...

... not to mention my DAYS spent rating stuff so I could have sweet smart playlists.

Can't talk about it anymore ...

need drink.

[cheung31]

omfg i feel so sorry for you..

[Winsor_Pilates]

That is one of my worst fears as an Ipod owner who doesn't use autosync. I am really sorry to hear that. I've been thinkign about getting another HD just to back up my iPod. I think I should before something like that happens to me.
That is really a stupid feature. If that ever happened to me, I would never buy an iPod again.

[photon]

There has to be recovery software out there. Maybe something like this?

http://www.subrosasoft.com/MacSoftware/ind...1&products_id=2

The more we move into a digital age (movies, music, photos..) the more we need a really good and easy backup scheme for people.

I mean hard drives fail, CDs and DVDs degrade over time, magnetic tapes demagnetize...

I can look at a photo album and see 50 year old pictures of my grand parents.. Will the digital photos I take of my son be around in 50 years? Or will I have lost them to some crash at some point?

[Hack&Lube]

The Ipod is in essence just an external harddrive, can't you try running a disk recovery or undelete on it?

If you haven't done anything to the state of the Ipod, IE: written to it in any way, all of your music is still actually there. It hasn't been physically erased.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally posted by photon@Sep 12 2005, 09:43 PM
There has to be recovery software out there. Maybe something like this?

http://www.subrosasoft.com/MacSoftware/ind...1&products_id=2

The more we move into a digital age (movies, music, photos..) the more we need a really good and easy backup scheme for people.

I mean hard drives fail, CDs and DVDs degrade over time, magnetic tapes demagnetize...

I can look at a photo album and see 50 year old pictures of my grand parents.. Will the digital photos I take of my son be around in 50 years? Or will I have lost them to some crash at some point?

I recently took my 386's 80MB harddrive from 1990 and plugged it into a modern harddrive enclosure and pretty much recovered everything off it. It was great!
Thank-god IDE lasted like 20 years.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally posted by photon@Sep 12 2005, 09:43 PM
There has to be recovery software out there. Maybe something like this?

http://www.subrosasoft.com/MacSoftware/ind...1&products_id=2

The more we move into a digital age (movies, music, photos..) the more we need a really good and easy backup scheme for people.

I mean hard drives fail, CDs and DVDs degrade over time, magnetic tapes demagnetize...

I can look at a photo album and see 50 year old pictures of my grand parents.. Will the digital photos I take of my son be around in 50 years? Or will I have lost them to some crash at some point?

Can't you just get them printed?

Speaking of, I'm new to the world of digital photography. It's only been about a year and I'm extremely disorganized and lazy and I've never figured out the best way to get actual prints of the pictures that sit on my camera/computer. Should I burn them to a disc? My local photo-guy says I can just e-mail them to him but I've never got around to that and he'll probably charge more if I do that.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally posted by RougeUnderoos+Sep 12 2005, 11:14 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (RougeUnderoos @ Sep 12 2005, 11:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-photon@Sep 12 2005, 09:43 PM
There has to be recovery software out there.# Maybe something like this?

http://www.subrosasoft.com/MacSoftware/ind...1&products_id=2

The more we move into a digital age (movies, music, photos..) the more we need a really good and easy backup scheme for people.

I mean hard drives fail, CDs and DVDs degrade over time, magnetic tapes demagnetize...

I can look at a photo album and see 50 year old pictures of my grand parents..# Will the digital photos I take of my son be around in 50 years?# Or will I have lost them to some crash at some point?

Can't you just get them printed?

Speaking of, I'm new to the world of digital photography. It's only been about a year and I'm extremely disorganized and lazy and I've never figured out the best way to get actual prints of the pictures that sit on my camera/computer. Should I burn them to a disc? My local photo-guy says I can just e-mail them to him but I've never got around to that and he'll probably charge more if I do that. [/b][/quote]
Printing is a lossy and even more volatile storage medium
Where are you planning to have them printed? Most places, you can bring them a disk, or even easier, just bring them the actual memory card from your camera. Even Wal-Mart does this cheaply.

[Devils'Advocate]

I ran an undelete program on my iPod once to recover songs that got axed by the autosync. It recovered the songs just fine, but it didn't restore the database. So I lost the titles, album name, artist name, etc, etc, etc. Rename 6,000 songs would take a long time. Almost less to re-rip.

After this unfortunate incident, I think I'll keep my library backed up on the HD.

[MarchHare]

I'm very surprised iTunes didn't prompt you to ask if you wanted to auto-synch and replace the existing library on your iPod. Everytime I've plugged my iPod into a new computer I've received that prompt.

That being said, it's situations like this why I keep my music saved in three places: on my iBook, on my iPod, and on my Windows file server.

Sorry to hear about your loss though...that really sucks.

[Vernie_30]

I feel your pain!!
When I bought my first ipod it was a 40gb.
It got erased 3 times and not by autosync, just by corrupted playlist files or something with On-The-Go playlists that was a bug or something if you were using itunes on a pc or something.
Anyways, I've also had the autosync problem erase my songs. This is why I preach to all my friends when they first buy an ipod to turn on manually organize, not autosync.
You have not lost all of your files when this happens, it just turns on a flag that the song is to be overwrited. So you might have lost some songs cause it got overwrited by the new songs, but you can still save some of the songs. I bought recovery software to try to recover my songs, but since I had 30gb worth of songs the program ran for over 24 hours and yes, the titles and everything were gone!! But I did recover the songs, but not worth the time and effort I spent.

After the 3rd time erased, I went to Best Buy since I had bought the warranty for the ipod and the 40gb was discontinued, I got a 60gb. This time I made sure I wouldn't lose all my songs, I bought an external 120gb drive and I use a software program called CopyPod. Backs up all songs and playlists keeping titles, artists, genres and albums information saved. Now I can sleep at night knowing that if anything goes wrong or I want to upgrade my ipod I can recover all my songs and playlists with one click with CopyPod and you don't have to do anything else, I highly recommend it. Oh and you can share your songs with your family or friends cause CopyPod rips it just like a cd except it rips all your songs in one click and for 7000 songs it only takes an hour and a half.

[Barnes]

What happened to your old computer? Why cant you just sync it up. You can also enable disk use and copy your music folder to your ipod and then copy it to your new computer let Itunes find it and you've lost nothing. Do you have a Mac or a PEECEE?
________
Ship sale