Entire library deleted-help!
my entire iTunes library was deleted.
is there a way for me to keep the music on my iPod AND download new music to a new library, and sync it all? or will I have to start from scratch?
please help! and thanks in advance
*Recover media from iPod*
Check out this post from Zevoneer for options on moving your iPod data back to your computer.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9935961#9935961
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Hello,
I recently built myself a new computer due to the fact that my old one was almost 5 years old, and I needed an upgrade. After getting the new one up and running, I hooked up my iPod mini to a USB port, and it cleaned out my entire library on iTunes and my iPod. I now have lost ym contacts, all 200 songs in iTunes and my iPod, and have also lost all of my purchased songs as well.
I tried to search my purchased songs, and iTunes told me that they were verified, but would not restore them to my library even though I was logged in and had already authorized this computer to play songs in my iTunes.
Is there any way to restore my library, and furthermore, why should I have to put up with this garbage when iTunes totes around proclaiming that it is easy to use your iPod from one computer to another?If you goto My Music/iTunes Folder and there is no "iTUnes Music" folder there, this could of happened many ways. It could of been malware or a virus or it could of got corrupt or been on a bad sector on your drive. If it was on a bad sector or corrupt it could of forced Windows into a "Error Checking" mode when you rebooted or started up and windows seleted it.
If you can open iTUnes, it should create a "iTUnes Library" File in my music/iTUnes. More about the library file can be read here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732
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I will explain what I did below.
Also, please excuse my English, it's not my first language.
Okay, then let me explain my problem from the beginning. Maybe someone can tell me what I did wrong.
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Please please please, can somebody help me?If you don't have any other back up, and the torrent files you sent to yourself are gone, then your music is gone.
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If I've downloaded my music to an itunes library from an external hard drive and I have several duplicate songs, is there an easy way to delete the duplicate songs? Or, do I have to go through my entire library song by song to delete duplicates?
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iTunes: About iOS backups
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