All music and all photo's gone!!

After updating to OSX lion and then installing Xcode (also apple) my mac mini crashed dureng tghe install and wanted me to reinstall Lion. So i did and expexted to get all my files back from my TM backup (that is on an external drive). So i thought this worked well (as it did several times before). Untill i opened iTunes and iPhoto: all sourcefiles are gone. And they are also gone form the TM backup files. The entire backup has shrunk about 200 Gb. I called Apple support (10ct per minute) nut nothing could be done.... ALL IS LOST! Great such an Apple sevice. Is this the beginning of gthe decline of Apple?

To have more than 1 backup is a cheap argument at this moment. How many hard drives for back up do I need to cionnect to my Mac?
A cheap argument could have avoided an expensive problem. As I said, you need a minimum of two hard drives for two separate backups.
Nobody here knows what went wrong in your case. It's very clear something went wrong, because this is not typical behavior. Nobody's saying this should have happened, we're just saying that it does not appear to be a "Lion bug," since that would bite someone else other than you.
Corruption is a nasty, creeping, unavoidable problem. Corruption in a hard drive can easily propagate through backups, yet most people have only one backup, if any at all. The only way to protect yourself is to have multiple backups. Even then you could lose data to corruption if you don't also have some archival copies stored away somewhere.
Nobody's saying all this is your fault, we're just trying to point out that this sort of thing will inevitably happen from time to time, and in order to protect your data in the future, you need to do far more than just hook up a drive and turn on Time Machine.

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If you manually manage the device the you can remove the content from the PC after you have put it on the device. However this isn't the recommended way. At some point you'll probably need to restore it which involves wiping all the data. If you don't have all this data to hand then you'll have to try to recover it from a now problematic device first. It's much easier to sync with your library - yes you have two copies, but that's not a waste, it is prudent. As long as you have two copies you can afford to lose one knowing you have a backup. In practice I keep a complete backup of my library, in addition to the subsets of it that I can put on my devices.
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When I opened LR 5 all photos were gone?
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i had clicked some pics on tour but without taking backup i restore my old backup and now photos are gone. I had even try i phone photo recovery but it does not showing those photos i want those pics so deadly help me.

pulkitpareekonline wrote:
... without taking backup i restore my old backup and now photos are gone.
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This support article will explain how you can restore from a backup - which is what you have to do in order to have any chance of recovering your note.
How to backup and restore from a backup
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
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This may help:
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Looks like Apple continue to **** up the way that we have sorted our photos for years!.
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Apple used to be ....'it works'.....since Steve Jobs left us....it doesn't !

HT4528 How do I restore all my photos? After upgrading my iPhone all photos were gone.

How do I restore all my photos? After upgrading my iPhone, all my photos were gone.

What photos?
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Photos synced from your computer should still be on your computer an in you regular backup copy of your computer.

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Using iPod with Multiple computers
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Same with all of mine too in UK.
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okk so i have 2 ipod touches and i wanted both to have the same music and videos so i synced them both to one itunes. but then after i synced them both they were fine after i noticed that the ipos have the same photos. from the device. so now one ipods original photos are gone and only have the photos from the ipod that was synced first. is there any way to get the origional photos back the ones before the sync????

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a brody,
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Then I would just contact apple, we are just users here.
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Try this:
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Start over with a new library and import the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from your original library as follows:
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