Lost all of my iPod music!
Okay, to put this simply, my iTunes had a glitch and, in return, I received the removal of every single song and movie on my iPod. I had about 8,000 songs and 1 movie. And after I finished listening to one song, iTunes disconnected my iPod. I tried reconnecting it and it took 5 minutes to sync. Of course, after it was synced there was no music. 6 of my 17 podcasts are there, and my photos are there, but all of my music is gone, and the one movie is gone too. This really upsets me because it will take at least a month to get every song back on there, it's taken since last September to put everything on it thus far.
Now, my question is, is there a place where all of the music on my IPOD is stored, not my iTunes library. Most of the stuff that was on my iPod was NOT in my library, so that's no help. I transferred most of my stuff directly from Limewire, or from my desktop, to my iPod and then got rid of it.
I'M NOT ASKING about the iTunes Library music, I know about that. But the music that was on the iPod, is there any folder on the computer where that's backed up on. If so, where can I find it (P.S. I have a Windows XP, not a Mac). As well, am I the only person this has happened to or is this slightly common?
Yes, you are wrong. The ipod is designed to sync all of your music and files from itunes, that would be the first and foremost "backup" for your ipod. If you removed, or never added the music to the itunes library on your computer, then as far as I'm concerned you purposely chose to not backup the files you took so long to download. It is not Apple's responsibility to make a backup of your ipod for you. Bottom line is if it's a file you can't stand to lose, then YOU better at least have one backup of it.
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The passcode is defintely doing its job, denying access to your personal info from unauthorised users. The way I look at it is if there was another way to bypass the passcode then whats the point?. You would then have a passcode just for show, that didn't protect anything. Anybody and everybody would have access to all your data.
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Signed,
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