Help! I dont want to lose my music!
I received my Ipod as a gift from my roommate years ago. She had a Mac so we formatted it on her computer. Now I no longer live with her and I just bought a PC because it was half the price of a Mac book. Itunes on my PC is telling me that windows will not recognize an Ipod formatted to MAC and I have to restore. How can I save my music? If I restore won't I lose all of the content on it? How can I get my PC to recognize my Ipod without losing over 5000 songs?!?!?!
"Windows operating systems don't recognize Mac OS-formatted disks (HFS or HFS Plus formats), so you can't use a Mac-formatted iPod to move your music to a Windows PC"
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329
Do you not have a backup copy of your music?
If this is your room mates music, then you shouldn't have it anyway.
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Thank youCheck out the instructions/suggestions here.
Music from iPod to computer (using option 2). This a manual method using "hidden folders" and although it works, it can be messy.
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For how to restore:
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My iPod was formatted on a PC and has about 2,000 songs on it. Now I want to use it on my Mac but i dont want to lose all of the music that is on there already. How do I add more music with my Mac without losing the music that is on there already?
forget it then ill restore it
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See this for more info... http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1212 -
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It's in recovery mode. Anything that was on the phone is already gone.
Sorry, you've already lost them.
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