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I’m sorry Dave. You screwed up.
Despite having done it more than a few times I managed to delete all of the music from my iPod and my old PC while attempting to transfer them over to the GREATEST SYSTEM EVAH!!!. (Sorry. I’m kinda new to this cult stuff. By the way, have you accepted Steve Jobs into your heart? )
It’s not that big of a deal since I probably only had about a hundred purchased songs in iTunes, outside of what I already own, and I was kind of thinking of just starting from scratch anyway. Sure, when I think about all of the hundreds of lost hours spent loading music, it seems like a shame, but when I think of all of the hours other people spend on their mindless little hobbies like collecting matchbooks, ice fishing , reading blogs, or raising children, it really doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Needless to say, Pre-friday Random Ten may actually only be ten this Thursday…
While I’m on the subject: thanks to everyone for all of their emailed Mac tips. I guess the iPod ones aren’t needed now.
(Added): Somehow when I came here to point out that I suck at this Academy Award thing, I deleted my suckery. I pretty much blew everything but, dammit, Norbit was totally robbed.
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You didn’t loose any cheese cake did you.
You got a couple right, but dont give up your day job.
I think you missed on the same ones most people did. I should have entered one of those “pick the winners” contests, as I got everything right except Doc. Short Subject, Visual Effects, and the three things Bourne III got. (Marion Cotillard was my pick for Big Surprise of the Night.)
Overall, a pretty boring show this year. Worst Presenters of the Night goes to the guy from Knocked Up and the other guy from Superbad for stringing a bad joke across two awards.
For reference, unless the iPod can’t hold it all, just set the iPod preferences to “Synch everything”. Your entire iTunes library, music and videos, in the computer will be transferred into the iPod, then can be transferred back to the Mac.
Good times. Didja get Tubesock yet?
I’ll take a guess, you had to reformat the iPod to work with the Mac. Doing so erased your iPod’s music, as it should and as it warns it’s going to do, which (and here I speculate) you didn’t have backed up on the Windows machine? If so, naughty naughty.
Never fear, Eddie Murphy “won” Worst Actor, Worst Supporting Actor, and Worst Supporting Actress (all for Norbit at the Golden Razzies. (However this was Lindsay Lohan’s year: Worst Picture: I Know Who Killed Me, Worst Actress: Lindsay Lohan (Twice!) I Know Who Killed Me, Worst Screen Couple: Lindsay Lohan and Lindsay Lohan I Know Who Killed Me).
Say what you will about them, it was damn hard to delete those old 33 rpm record albums.
I’d be curious to know how you managed to delete them all off your old PC. First they go to the recycle bin, so you went to the recycle bin and deleted them from there? You don’t have Norton System Works running? Try installing it. What’s erased from the hard drive isn’t always totally erased and merely remains on the hard drive until written over, so there’s a possible chance of getting it back.
http://www.e-fense.com/helix/
Can help retrieve things as well. Try finding out what software you can nab and you can probably save a lot of what you thought was lost.
Lt. Frank Drebin:
“But this is our hill. And these are our beans.”
“it just works!”
But seriously, if you want, there are some good “open source” music pages out there. If you already bought the albums (and thus the rights) you can get your friends to email (or snail mail CDs) you copies of the music, no?
I never know what my rights are wrt to digital music copies.
Try GetDataBack for NTFS. Here
I’ve used it to successfully recover data even from hard drives that have had new operating systems installed. Generally, the data isn’t lost unless it’s been overwritten, it’s just that Windows “forgets” where the data is located. And you can get a free download.
You now fully understand the phrase “Single Point of Failure”. Just consider, most if not all, IT systems are riddled with single points of failure.
Professionals take backups. And expect failures.
Forget iTunes; go for eMusic instead. 30 downloads/month at $9.99, which works out to a third of what iTunes charges per song. Great selection, too–lots of independent/oddball/international stuff.
Buy your music wherever you like, but note that Apple has, in the past, made “one-time exceptions” for people who lost purchased music and didn’t have backups:
http://www.apple.com/support/i…..lostmusic/
http://thecontent.wordpress.co…..usic-once/
Back up all purchased music from any online source, though. DRM or no DRM, the file is all you get, so make lots of copies.