Reinstalling Tiger After File System Corruption

One of my users inadvertantly deleted the /var directory on my Tiger system. The system will now only boot to an sh prompt and no files are accessible.
I need to re-install the OS. The re-installation docs describe methods that are accessible from Mac OS. What I need is to perform a clean install. On Linux or Windows this would be accomplished by booting from the installation media and performing a clean install.
What is the equivalent process for Macs? Can I boot from the cdrom? I can't even get the DVD ROM drive to open.

Hi hutzut,
Yes, you boot from Tiger Install DVD, choose which installation (in your case, I would choose Erase & Install, not Archive & Install), choose then also Custom Install if you don't want all drivers, languages etc installed.
It's a very easy and fast process, no need to know anything about computers.
To open the CD drive:
--> restart with the mouse button depressed.
I don't know what is a "sh prompt", but you may want to remember also the Terminal commands to open it:
drutil tray open
drutil tray close
drutil tray eject
and restart from the Install DVD (already in the drive), by keeping the C key depressed.
Good luck!
Axl
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error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//ethtool-6-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//ettercap-NG_0.7.3-6/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//eventlog-0.2.5-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//evieext-1.0.2-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//evilwm-1.0.0-1.1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//evince-2.20.1-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//evms-2.5.5-3/desc: No such file or directory
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error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//evolution-sharp-0.14.0.1-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//exim-4.68-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//exiv2-0.14-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//exo-0.3.2-5/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//expat-2.0.1-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//vips-7.12.5-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//wipe-2.2.0-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//guichan-0.7.1-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//guifications-2.14-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//gutenpy-0.3.0-5/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//gwenhywfar-2.6.1-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//gwget-0.99-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hacburn-0.3.5-3/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hal-cups-utils-0.6.13-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//happs-0.8.4-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hardinfo-0.4.2.2-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hardware-monitor-1.4-4/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hashcash-1.22-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//haskell-binary-0.2-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//haskell-x11-1.2.3-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//haskell-x11-extras-0.4-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hatari-0.95-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//haxml-1.13.2-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hddtemp-0.3.beta15.36-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hearse-1.5-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hedgewars-0.9.0-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//helixplayer-1.0.8-4/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hevea-1.10-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hex-a-hop-20070705-6/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hexter-0.6.1-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hgsvn-0.1.4-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//hlist-darcs-20070629-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//homebank-3.5-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//klogwatch-2.0.3-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//ltris-1.0.11-3/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//man2texi-0.01-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//moinmoin-1.5.8-3/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//moreutils-svn-81-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//mpdcon-1.1.99-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//nautilus-actions-1.4.1-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//openthreads-1.5-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//perl-crypt-cbc-2.22-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//perl-text-charwidth-0.04-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//perl-text-markdown-1.0.3-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//perl-universal-can-1.12-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//perl-universal-require-0.11-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//perl-www-mechanize-1.30-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//perl-www-sms-0.09-3/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//ruby-gtksourceview-0.16.0-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//smplayer-0.5.21-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//sofia-sip-1.12.6-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//texlive-formatsextra-doc-2007.1-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//texlive-games-doc-2007.1-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//weechat-cvs-20070805-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//xfce4-xkb-plugin-svn-3163-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//xfmedia-svn-26105-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/community//xfwm4-svn-26127-3/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//aalib-1.4rc5-4/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//acpid-1.0.6-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//agg-2.5-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//alltray-0.69-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//alsa-lib-1.0.14-5/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//alsa-utils-1.0.14-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//amarok-base-1.4.7-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//amarok-engine-xine-1.4.7-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//cabextract-1.2-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//cairo-1.4.10-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//cairo-perl-1.041-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//cdrdao-1.2.2-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//cdrkit-1.1.6-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//chmlib-0.39-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//codecs-20061022-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//compositeproto-0.4-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//cpudyn-1.0.1-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//cpufrequtils-002-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//cups-1.3.3-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//curl-7.17.0-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//cvs-1.11.22-6/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//cvsup-16.1h-3/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//cyrus-sasl-plugins-2.1.22-6/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//damageproto-1.1.0-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//eject-2.1.5-3/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//esd-0.2.38-3/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//evieext-1.0.2-1/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//exiv2-0.14-2/desc: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/extra//expat-2.0.1-1/desc: No such file or directory
As a test I tried doing a pacman -S to reinstall one of those packages, and it gave the same error as well as complaining about the missing depends file. After I told it to install the already up to date package pacman kept saying that the package was corrupted. Any way to fix this short of doing a reinstall?

These files have to do with the pacman database of all packages, not of installed packages (which are in /var/lib/pacman/local). I would suggest trying 'pacman -Syy' to clean that up, and if you still have the same sorts of errors afterwards that would suggest quite annoying disk corruption.

Trying to reinstall Tiger over trashed system from dmg; prompted to restart

I am stuck in a restart loop trying to archive and reinstall Tiger on internal drive. It crashed last night. Rebuilt directory with Disk Warrior which created a folder called "rescued items" which contained what looked like system files. I reformatted the drive and copied saved files. Drive is no longer recognized as startup-able.
I have only the Mac OSX Tiger.dmg file, not the disks. The installer on the dmg prompts a restart which lands me back on my external 10.3 drive and no installer in sight. I am further hampered by a stuck superdrive door which I've tried everything to open, including using Open Firmware commands. Trusty paperclip trick no longer works. Gotta find a gorilla next, I guess. Otherwise I would install Leopard, sitting there waiting patiently for me to get my act together.
Should I reformat the drive again and start afresh, or what? Thanks in advance.

Is there something in the Drive?
Have you tried booting up while holding the Left Mouse button down?

Oracle vm 3.1.1 server pool file system corruption

Hi
I have a small lab environment composed by 2 Oracle VM Servers and SAN access.
This morning somehow the OCFS2 Server Pool File System (the 12GB one) corrupted and the Server Pool seems dead. How can I recover from this error? I looked in the documentation and MOS but found nothing
Thank you

I know it would be a lot of work in such a scenerio. I don't know what you're using for storage but you could snapshot or replicate the pool storage to create a backup that can be restored.
I do wish they would let you select more than one VM guest in the VM Manager. Would be really nice to have such. Seems like it would be a rather easy feature to implement.

Reinstalling Tiger after Leopard

Quick question for you Apple experts!
I have loaded Leopard, and much as I have enjoyed the few days I've had it running, sadly, my TallyGenicom printer no longer works. I've e-mailed Tally and they say "IF we make a new driver we will let you know." (Very reassuring!)
So the only way I can get back to printing seems to be to reinstall Tiger. My question is - is there likely to be any problems or repercussions installing an older system over a newer one?
Many thanks,
Andy

Andrew Stewart4 wrote:
Quick question for you Apple experts!
I have loaded Leopard, and much as I have enjoyed the few days I've had it running, sadly, my TallyGenicom printer no longer works. I've e-mailed Tally and they say "IF we make a new driver we will let you know." (Very reassuring!)
So the only way I can get back to printing seems to be to reinstall Tiger. My question is - is there likely to be any problems or repercussions installing an older system over a newer one?
Many thanks,
Andy
How much does a new printer cost? Is your old printer something you cannot live without?
If you printer company is not going to provide support, I would dump them and get a modern printer that likes Leopard rather than going backwards just to accommodate a single item. There are printers that cost less than Leopard costs.

Windows has detected file system corruption on local disk. How can i solve this problem?

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.
WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
4 percent complete. (148991 of 343808 file records processed)
Attribute record (128, "") from file record segment 154351
is corrupt.
4 percent complete. (157441 of 343808 file records processed)
Attribute record (128, "") from file record segment 165044
is corrupt.
Attribute record (128, "") from file record segment 170460
is corrupt.
5 percent complete. (171904 of 343808 file records processed)
Attribute record (128, "") from file record segment 176325
is corrupt.
Attribute record (128, "") from file record segment 176329
is corrupt.
Attribute record (128, "") from file record segment 176849
is corrupt.
343808 file records processed.
File verification completed.
3390 large file records processed.
Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.
C:\Windows\system32>

well actually HP notebooks bioses have some diagnostics an user can run: HDD test, memory check, battery check thats all.
Still U can use HD Tune if U download it - freeware. But Hard Drive test U can do in Bios also works very well. I suggest this one cause when it detect something HP wont be oposing to U'rs repair request.
click on Kudos if i helped U

Help - odd file system corruption.

I have something very worrying going on on my system. The contents of an important folder is being listed differently in 3rd party applications vs the Finder. Apps which use a non-OS file browser cannot see the up to date contents (its an important project I'm currently working on), instead they only list folders from months ago which are now long gone and don't show the current true contents at all. Eg Cinema 4D's Content Browser can't see the current files correctly, but it can just fine via the OS Open/Save dialog.
Even worse is that Chrono Sync has exactly the same problem. When it syncs it correctly lists some of the current files that I'm working on, but in the Anylise section, manually drilling down to my working project folder again shows the incorrect contents!
I have copied the directories to a new HD but even THEY show the same errors when not viewing the contents directly with Lion file browsers***
I can remember once when I first saw this in Cinema 4D I immediately checked in the Finder - and the Finder showed the wrong contents too !- I refreshed the Finder window by clicking a different folder and back to the working directory which then updated before my eyes to the correct contents.
How can I fix this? It seems like there is an immenent serious corruption about to happen to my files and/or disk. Disk Utility shows no errors, nothing to repair. Can/should I use Diskwarrior or some other repair app. Help!
(***I just remembered that I used CCC in block level copy mode so this might account for why the corruption has been transferred to the new drive. I am copying the working directory to the new disk using drag nd drop in the Finder to see if that helps. However I still need the underlying corruption in my User folder repaired)

Yes, I have quite a comprehensive backup strategy in place (involving a Drobo for nightly CCC backups, a CCC nightly bootable disk clone and TM for hourly backups). The Block Copy is for the bootable disk. The nightly Drobo backups are done with vanila CCC file copying,
Disk Util does not find any problems, neither did Disk Warrior. SMART is all OK.
However as I said, the problem is present on one of the backups as well which has put the integrity of the rest of my backups in doubt. also I have tried a direct Finder copy to a new drive (instead of CCC block copy) but the problem persisted.
I have however come up with a temporary fix: I moved the current folder to the trash, navigated to the parent directory using Cinema 4D's Content Browser wherein it 'saw' the ancient folder once again. This errant folder was now also visible in the Finder since the original folder (which has the same name) was now in the trash. I renamed it and moved it to the trash too. Then put the original folder from the trash back into its parent directory and emptied the trash removing the errent folder for good. It seems that did the trick of updating whatever caches or databases were broken and all my apps can correctly see the correct folder and its contents again.
This 'historical' version of the folder was being linked to by 3rd party file browsers I think because in the past it had the same name in the same location as the current folder. Where and how the OS got confused is still a mystery. Does it keep different file system records for the finder vs other apps?
I am not 100% convinced this is a true solution though as there may well be a deeper problem afoot.
I would like to see some kind of error/fixed message from Disk Util just so I know the OS is on top of this problem. As it stands my Mac thinks everythin is A-OK.

_NTFS - File system corrupt

A couple of weeks ago I purchased a new Seagate HDD because the old hard disk was failing. Now I get a message every day in the event viewer that the NTFS file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. I have run checkdisk several
times, but the message keeps reappearing. I also downloaded Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB982018), but I still receive the message. I do not know how to delete shadow copies on C:.

Hi,
What is the result of chkdsk command?
Generally, if you got a corrupted disk, in the result of chkdsk output, you need get information about disk fault.
If this is a hardware issue, please contact the device manufacture for more help.
Alex Zhao
TechNet Community Support

Tried to download and reinstall iTunes after file corrupted. Download proceeds, but does not complete. Message states "Apple mobile device failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services."

My iTunes became corrupted. I tried to upgrade to a new version, but things only got worse. Some of the error messages I received:
APSDaemon - Unable to locate component
This application has failed to start because MSVCR80.dl was not found. Rinstalling the application may fix this problem.
So, I deleted my downloads and past attempts and any .dl files I had and tried again. Now I get this message:
Today: Apple Mobile Device failed to start. Make sure you have sufficient privileges to start system services.

Hi ahhan13,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Issues installing iTunes or QuickTime for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1926
How to restart the Apple Mobile Device Service (AMDS) on Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1567
Cheers,
- Judy

HELP!! File system corrupted

Hi,
I got the filesystem on my LaCie Biggest Quadra 4 Tb external RAID disk suddenly corrupted and the system doesn't recognize the disk anymore, but the RAID controller does not complain about disk errors. Shortly, what happened:
- the disk is my Time Maschine disk
- I had a simulation code running over night writing output on that disk, too
- the disk was nearly full (2 Gb free)
- I found my code hanging and access to that disk rather slow, but I continued working without using that disk much
- I did the 10.5.3 update and rebooted the machine
- after boot the machine complained that the external disk is not recognized
(BTW: I don't think the upgrade was the problem. I cannot see the disk even from my laptop which I didn't upgrade yet!)
Disk utility does see the disk as a general volume, the original volume is not recognized. With disk utility I could only initialize the disk, so no chance to repair. "Data rescue" sees the volume with it's name, I haven't tried yet to see if it would recover files from that. So, now my question for the gurus over the net:
- is there any other option to repair the filesystem, I don't think I have an issue with the disk itself, as the RAID controller should complain about that.
- if the only option is to recover the files to a different disk, does it make a sense to recover the time machine file structure? That structure is overfilled with hard links that I don't believe will get recovered correctly. Is there a chance to make recovered or copied time machine backups work again on a different disk?
- how could it come that the fs got corrupted such that the disk isn't recognized anymore as a HFS+ volume?
Any help will be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Thomas

Just in case someone else gets to this topic:
I found out that the partition table got corrupted. No plan how that happened, the RAID seems ok. I was able to adjust that problem with a free program called testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk). After that the volume mounted again. Disk utility found problems on the filesystem which I repaired. I have a 50 Gbyte image of my powerbook disk on that filesystem which mounts if I skip verification, but fails verification. So, the filesystem got really corrupted, but at least I could mount it again and save the possible.
Thomas

How to reinstall Tiger after formatting the hard drive

Hey folks, I think this is a common question but I haven't been able to find a solution to it after researching through the forums and google.
The situation is I've recently bought a second hand mac online. It was previously a ex-lease so the seller had formatted the whole system/hard disk, so I need to reinstall the OS.
The seller unfortunately didn't include the reinstallation disks so I'm using the disks from my Mac. My mac is iMac 20" Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz/2GB/250GB/ATI Radeon X1600(256) and the installation disk is for Mac OS X 10.4.7.- Could this be the problem? That the OS on the installation disk is too new for the mac?
Here are the specs for the second hand Mac:
iMac G5 (no iSight) 1.8ghz, 1gb ram, 80 hdd, dvd-rw, geforce fx 5200 graphics card, onboard modem., etc.
I've tried rebooting the disk by holding "c" or "command" at start up and it recognises the disk but it doesnt proceed to the utility page that is mentioned in other solutions.
Instead it comes up with a error message saying:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x002E54BC): Unable to find driver for this platform: "PowerMac8,1".
Lastest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x0009A4A4 0x0009AE60 0x002E54BC 0x00EBEEF4 0x002C004C 0x002C1EC8 0x002C0FDC
0x000AE4F4
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sc=0x0x01012280)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000d030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x000000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP-0x00000000 (unknown)
Kernal Version:
Darwin Kernal Version 8.8.5: Mon Dec 11 19:42:29 PST 2006; rppt: xnu-792.16.5obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
No debugger configured - dumping debuig information
MSR=00001030
Lastes stack backgtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace :
0x0009A4A4 0x0009AE60 0x002E54BC 0x00EBEEF4 0x002C004C 0x002C1EC8 0x002C0FDC
0x000AE4F4
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Except state (sv=0x010102280)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000d030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x000000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP-0x00000000 (unknown)
Kernal version:
Darwin Kernatl Version 8.8.5: MOnm Dec 11 19:42:29 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.16.5,ojj~1/RELEASE)PPC panic: We Are hanging here...
I think the system is fine because it is recognising that there is a disk, but the error just comes up each time it boots it. Any suggestions please?
Many thanks in advance!(=

Hi monkee_appelz!
If you call Apple Customer Service 1-800-767-2775, and provide the serial number of the iMac, you may be able to purchase replacement original system discs.
However, those will be for the version of OS, that was pre-installed when manufactured.
But, they will contain the bundled software, that is not included in a Full Retail Version, of a newer OS X. The Apple Hardware Test, specific to the iMac model, will also be included.
If the 80 GB HD is original, your model is the 17" iMac G5/ 1.8 MHz which had Panther 10.3.5 pre-installed when manufactured.
The 17" iMac G5/ 1.8 GHz (ALS) was the only 1.8 GHz model to have Tiger 10.4.x pre-installed when manufactured.
If you want to upgrade to a newer version of OS X, you will also need to purchase a corresponding Full Retail Version, of the desired system.
ali b

Reinstalling Itunes after laptop system restore

My laptop was corrupted, it wouldn't boot up and I have had to do a system restore ... meaning I have lost my Itunes library. On top of which I hadnt backed up my library! All I have is my nano generation 3 with 1000+ tracks on it. I've heard if I reinstall Itunes and then syncronise my nano I will lose everything on my nano! Is this true? And if so, is there any way I can get the tracks stored in my library onto my laptop? I really don't fancy downloading 1000+ tracks again!

I found the answer in the response to the earlier post "Coping music from ipod back to PC" (posted: Aug 1, 2007 10:25 AM) and ended up using Tunejack ... it was very simple, everything is restored to my Itunes library including playlists, number of times played etc, although I did have to redownload album cover designs, but that was no real hardship. I then synchronised my Ipod with Itunes as normal so that everything was aligned. As I side issue, because I had redownloaded Itunes onto my computer, found I had to reauthorise my computer. Otherwise when I did my sync, it wouldn't transfer tracks back to the Ipod that I had previously downloaded from the Itunes store, because it thought that they had been purchased via another computer!

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