Recovering lost music using my ipod touch
i run a multi-harddrive system. I lost the hardrive that had my music on it.
All of my music still shows on itunes but when i try to play it, it says cant find file path.
All of my music is still on my Ipod touch, but im afaid to connect it to my computer. Because all the music is gone.
Is thier a way to recover all my music from my ipod????
also what about the Back up that itunes, automatically does just before each sync?
Hi,
Sorry to hear you're having HD problems.
To find out about retrieving your music from your Touch search posts by "Zevoneer" eg. here - [Click Here|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2013615&tstart=0]
The "Back Up" performed by iTunes is a little misleading, it actually only backs up preferences and settings but not you content.
The lesson from this situation is not to trust all of your valuable music to only one HD, have at least one other HD back up (they are cheap these days) and periodically back up your music files to CD or DVD.
Good luck,
Dud.
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