Deleting Playlist accidentally deleted physical files

Recently, I deleted a playlist that contained about 30 albums of music (all the songs on each album). At the time I thought I had said to keep the files, but evidently I messed up because the files are all gone. Since then I have purchased additional music so my iTunes library is different and I don't think I should just restore from a backup that I made at the end of September. However when I look at the total number of files in the end of September backup, there are several hundred more files than my most recent backup on 10/26. So my question is, how can I selectively restore only the Albums that were inadvertently deleted? Can I just go to the backup and copy the subdirectories of the Artists that were deleted into my current library??? If I do that, how does the indexing get updated?

At the time I thought I had said to keep the files, but evidently I messed up because the files are all gone.
Cliff - You were really playing with fire! For future reference, if you want to delete a playlist, right click the playlist name and choose Delete. That will remove the playlist, but all its tracks will remain in your library (and in any other playlist they are in). It will not even ask you about deleting the files.
Anyway, glad it had a happy ending.

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How to - delete physical files that have been removed from library

Hello,
I have recently purged my iTunes library from unwanted music tracks. However, most of those tracks were located in various folders on my harddisk, thus not managed by iTunes (not being on the "My Music\Itunes" folder).
I would now like to somehow delete those files that are still on my harddisk. I've searched if there's a script around, but with no luck. What I'd like to do is to have a script that parses my library xml file, and that compares it with the files still present on the harddisk but not listed in iTunes, so that it either generates a list of files to delete, or automatically deletes those files.
Once this will be done, I plan to move all my remaining music to a new HDD, but before doing that I will need to clean the mess.
Thanks in advance for your hints!
Max
P.S. : I thought of making a new iTunes lib, to import all, and then to somehow run a diff program to remove duplicate items. Does that makes sense ?

Don't know of any script to do this.
If the songs are not in iTunes (you deleted them) and they are not in the iTunes music folder, you will need to search & delete them yourself.
You could do a Windows search the HD for all music and sort by location (In Folder), then delete everything not in the iTunes music folder.
Or move everything not in the iTunes folder to a folder on the desktop, then sort it out from there.

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I would like to make room on my external drive.
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I have my iTunes Library manually managed.
I cannot recognized from the Folder which files are linked to songs that are matched and which ones are not.
Any help will be welcomed.

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I accidentally deleted photo files, can I retrieve them?

I accidentally deleted photo files, is there any way to undo or retireve them?

I spoke too soon! The Picassa 3 photos do not import well into my elements
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files from elements, they don't show up in the trash bin. I looked/searched for
the pictures...they seem gone! Is it time to call in a tech? I really
appreciate your help with this, you can imagine how distraught it is to lose
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I accidentally deleted some files from iCloud, how do I recover the files if I do not have other backup or in time machine

I accidentally deleted some files from iCloud, how do I recover the files if I do not have other backup or in time machine

You don't.

Accidentally deleted domain files trying to create a second site...

This is my first post so please be merciful
I used the freeware iWebsites (that some of you know) and I was attempting to create another website with a different domain name for our church. I accidentally deleted the domain files BUT not before I published a backup to my desktop.
Now when you type the address:
http://web.mac.com/elementpicturesmaui/
You get the template for the church site:
http://web.mac.com/elementpicturesmaui/iWeb/New%20Site/Welcome.html
But this is the one I want to keep for my business:
http://web.mac.com/elementpicturesmaui/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html
So how do:
1. I get the first address to go back to my third address.
2. Create a new web.mac.com address for my church
3. I guess also to delete that second address?
Thank you very much for taking the time to help.

So how do:
1. I get the first address to go back to my third address.
Modify the index.html file on the .Mac server. First, navigate to your iDisk files using the Go menu in Finder, and drag the index.html file to your desktop so that it is copied there.
Go/iDisk/MyiDisk/Web/Sites/index.html
Make a folder and place this copy inside for safekeeping. If anything goes wrong you can put it back on the iDisk.
Launch your Text Edit.app, and under preferences, in Text Edit, check the box for Ignore rich text commands in HTML files.
Now choose File/Open/iDisk/Web/Sites/index.html. You should see this (or something very close to it) in a Text Edit window:
You will change it to this:
Note that not very much changed here...just the name of the site in the url. Your old site is simply named, Site, in your iWeb application. You are just changing the index.html file to point to that site versus the New Site. So really, all you will do here is delete the word New in the index.html file. Now, File/Save. Not Save As...; just File/Save. Now your short .Mac url (web.mac.com/elementpicturesmaui/) should point to the correct site.
2. Create a new web.mac.com address for my church
You will need to buy a Domain name and forward it to your web.mac.com address; you could also use the .Mac hosting via a cname alias if you want. Purchase your Domain name from a registrar like Yahoo or GoDaddy.
3. I guess also to delete that second address?
You can delete these files from your iDisk by simply dragging them to the trash.
-Mark

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What app do I use to recover accidentally deleted prproj files on a Mac?

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I have accidentally deleted a file in IPhoto and now it doesn't work. I have tried doing a restore and that quits unexpectedly...HELP!

At my wits end. I have tried to do two restores from recent back ups and neither work. I can't even remember what I was trying to do now originally. I wanted to get all my photos off my mac onto a external hard drive. In trying to locate where the photos were being stored not the computer, Ive inadvertently deleted a file, or that I think Ive done because iPhoto isn't working now. Please help! Thank you in anticipation.

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Deleting individual Files from trash folder

This should be a simple question...Is there a way to permanently delete individual files/folders from the trash folder instead of emptying the entire trash folder? TIA, Scott

As Allan says, no... the trash *should not* be used as a repository for files you're not sure you want to trash yet. Not only is this extremely hazardous, as it's easy to accidentally empty the trash, but it also puts all those questionable files outside the reach of Time Machine, so they will not be backed up. If you need a "Pending Trash" folder, create one on your desktop, and then put files in the trash only once you are truly ready to delete them.

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Context: My wife accidentally deleted a series of folders from Thunderbird v.24.6.0
She says that the system warned her that there was "not enough space" or something like that (she doesn't remember clearly) and asked her if she wanted to "delete them permanently" (or something like that), but she pressed "yes" anyway. She then freaked out, and when I came in to see what she was screaming and crying about, she told me the above story.
SO, after spending the last 2-3 hours reading through help articles and finding my local Mail file/structure, learning about Mork and msf and compacting and X-Mozilla-Status codes, downloading Notepad++ and poking around through some of the files to familiarize myself with their format ... here I am trying to learn how to restore the folders.
Here is where I am at so far:
1. When I went to the Activity Manager, it shows the folders that were deleted, one below the others in a list with the title "Deleted folder foldername" with a dozen different folder names.
2. When I look for the one of the folders that was deleted in the Mail/path/foldername" - I open it (the one without the file extension) in notepad++ and it is empty. There only exists line 1 and there is no text in it (vs. the other folders I check that have the emails in standard From_line format.
This concerns me greatly and leaves me stuck. Did TB actually delete and compact the folder? Are they really deleted, not just X-Mozilla-Status deleted?
3. I don't understand how to restore a folder. I know I can go into a folder and change the X-Mozilla-Status for individual messages - but how to I restore the entire folder? I don't understand how the msf related to the deleted files/folders. It seems like there would be an entry/code somewhere that tells TB - "don't read this entire folder" that I could reverse/edit. I can't figure it out on my own.
4. I understand that, if I delete the foldername.msf file, TB will compact the foldername file. I think I should NOT do this because it will permanently delete the files I want to restore - right?
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The message she garbled I would assume is that the deletions were to large and that the deleted folder would be bypassed. So all the normal recovery from the trash is simply not possible. There is no Thunderbird magic available unfortunately. So your reduced to using operating system undelete software. I have no idea how that will go, but I just downloaded this http://ntfsundelete.com/download and it does appears to do the job, even if the close text is so pale as to be hard to see.

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I have the download list for firefox but accidentally deleted the file on my computer. I need the file and was wondering if there was a way of using the download list to access the file somehow, I don't think the file os on the internet either as I haven't found it

Hello!<br>
Go to the downloads window, right-click, and click "copy download link" or "go to download page". You should then be able to re-download it only if it's still in the downloads window

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I want to delete a file through my iTunes. Whenever I do, it just gives me a dialog window telling me that it will delete the file from the library and my iPod. It does NOT delete it from my hard drive. I do NOT want to let iTunes manage my music.
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hmm. for some strange reason after doing that it just simply warns me that in deleting the song(s) it will ruin my playlists/mess up songs currently on my ipod.
im just trying to delete all the songs that are under a minute from various albums because they take a lot of room, yet are pretty useless. but they are strung out over multiple files and i simply would love to be able to delete them all from the library where they are arranged. do you know of any other techniques to fix it?

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I tried and tried, but failed.
I couldn't even open the pdf files at all.
I accessed the "library folder >>> ..... >>> ibooks" and deleted all the files their, but still the "ghost" pdf files are shown in iBooks.
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I've not long worked out how to do basic things on my iMac but have had some coaching on other forums, as it goes this happened to me this morning.
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Re-opening ibooks initially showed the pdfs still in place, except after double clicking one a message appeared telling me the file could not be opened, then immediately the remaining books were shuffled and pdfs disappeared - still in documents though, and able to open.
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When I run the commands on the AS400, they work each time without fail, creating and deleting the same member as often as desired. Is there something missing from my code? Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated.
Thanks, jlav143

I check to AS400 to make sure the members (both physical and logical)have been deleted. The are deleted. However, when I go to use that member name again, my program blows up with the error message "member name already exists." For the user's sake, they need to reuse the member file names over.It looks like your "checking" isn't very accurate, then. But I can't comment on your code for removing members because I can't see the commands you are using -- and it looks sort of like you're calling your own CL program to do that anyway. Why don't you just clear the members instead of deleting them and then adding them back?

Hi why are my photos after downloading twice ,once in photo library and once in a file with the date why cant i delete a file its an iphone 4s please help

why are my photos after downloadon twice one as photo library the other as a file with date how can i delete one file same pics

Generally I would not use Facebook for sharing any photos, it compresses the photos substantially, and when you have shadows and dark colours you get visible "bands" where there should be subtle gradients, ie at sunsets and sunrises.
It sounds like you are using two methods to upload to Facebook:
1. Sharing from within Aperture, which basically syncs Facebook with your Aperture album, so any changes made at either end gets synced, hence the deletions from Albums, although the original file should still be in your library, just removed rom the album. It is like a playlist in iTunes.
2. Exporting pics and uploading to Facebook from the browser.
I am not sure how method 1 gets compressed, but I know that uploading hi-res jpegs to Facebook using method 2 results in poor quality images.
I wouldn't even bother comparing option 1 or 2, and they will both be poor images once you view them on Facebook, as opposed to viewing uploaded images on proper image sharing / hosting sites.
Your problem is not with Aperture, it is using Facebook for showing your work.
If you export pics form Aperture at high res jpegs or TIFFs your images will be fine.
If you insist to use Facebook as your way to share your work, then your workflow should be this:
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3. Export as 100% size and ensure the export settings are set at 100% quality.
4. Upload this pic into Facebook.
This will get you the best image size and resolution on Facebook.
See how you go.

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