Restore files to HD from iPod

In the process of upgrading to WIN7 and loading a new iPod, I had my files perfectly transferred and organized. I then went to copy the HD files to an external for a backup copy and lost a huge chunk of music! Can I copy the files on the iPod and paste them back onto the new laptop or an external?

Not sure how you lost music, or how you did this
+I then went to copy the HD files to an external for a backup copy and lost a huge chunk of music!+
You can try a 3rd-party ipod manager program. This is an old list, but will give you a start on researching it
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/P2/

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Restoring i tunes library from ipod

A sad story. My friends mother destroyed all her files on her computer (a pc) including her i tune library. She has all her songs on her i pod. Is there some way for her to download her i pod to my mac? Then I can copy her music to a disc and she can restore her library.
You can help save a mother daughter relationship form permanent damage
thanks
Susan

You can't sync or drag your non iTMS music back directly from an iPod to iTunes, the transfer of music is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there's a manual method of copying songs from your iPod to your Mac at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod
If you prefer something more automated there are also a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod, this is just a selection. Have a look at the web pages and documentation for these, they are generally quite straightforward. I use Senuti but check the others out and choose whichever you are happy with.
Senuti Mac Only
iPodRip Mac Only
PodWorks Mac Only
iPod.iTunes Mac Only
PodView Mac Only
iPod Access Mac and Windows Versions
YamiPod Mac and Windows Versions
PodUtil Mac and Windows Versions
iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
There is a new function in iTunes 7 under File, "Transfer Purchases from iPod" which transfers iTMS purchases. A paragraph on it has been added to this article: How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer
If your Mother's iPod is set to update automatically take care when connecting to your computer and a different iTunes. You will get a message that the iPod is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press *No* (or "Cancel" if you are using iTunes 7). Pressing "Yes" (or Erase and Sync in iTunes 7) will irretrievably remove all songs from the iPod. Your iPod should appear in the iTunes source list from where you can change the update setting to manual and use your iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. In iTunes 7 Check the "manually manage music and videos" box in Summary then press the Apply button. Don't uncheck Sync Music it will be unchecked by default when you choose the manual setting: Managing content manually on iPod
You can also use a keyboard command to prevent your iPod auto-syncing with iTunes. While connecting the iPod to the computer on a Mac hold down the Option and Command (⌥ and ⌘) keys, (on Windows hold down the Shift + Ctrl keys). This will stop the iPod from auto-syncing with iTunes and the iPod will appear in the source list. Wait until you are sure the iPod has mounted, and that it will not auto sync and then you can let the keys go. This may take between 20 to 30 seconds depending on your computer.

How can I restore my iTunes library from iPod after a HD crash?

My computer HD crashed and had to be replaced....
I've just installed iTunes and connected my iPod, I can't find a way to restore the iTunes library from the iPod.
I keep all my music on an external HD, everything that is on the iPod (~140GB) is on the external HD (and more) so I don't want to restore the library from the iPod to the HD nor recreate playlists, etc.
What can I do?
Thanks for your help

Check out the following post. It will work with your iPod video.
Be very careful when connecting an iPod full of music to an empty iTunes library.There is very real risk of permanently losing all the music.
To prevent auto sync, before you connect the iPod go to the iTunes preferences and select "devices", then select "disable automatic syncing for iPhones and iPods".
An alternative method is to connect the iPod whilst holding down the 'control+shift' keys and do not let them go until your iPod appears in iTunes.
If you see a message that your iPod is associated with a different library and asks if you want to link to a new one, make sure you press "Cancel".
If you should click on "Erase and Sync" will erase all the content currently on your iPod and it will be replaced with the content of the iTunes library you just connected to.
When you've pressed cancel your iPod should appear in the iTunes source list under "devices" and allow you to change the update setting to manage the iPod content manually, and that will let you use your iPod for the time being without the risk of accidentally erasing the contents.
Then do any of the following to transfer your music from iPod back to the computer/iTunes.
For iTunes version 7 or later, then you can transfer purchased iTunes store music from the iPod to an authorized computer by using the "file/transfer purchases from iPod" menu. Note that the maximum of 5 authorized computers applies here.
Find out how to do that here.
How to copy iTunes purchases from an iPod or iPhone to a computer.
For all other non purchased content (your own CDs etc), check 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 is a little more involved than other methods.
Much easier ways are to use one of the many 3rd party programs that copy music from the iPod to the computer.
One of the most recommended is Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music from iPod back to the computer. However, it does not transfer playcounts/ratings etc.
Other free programs are Pod Player, SharePod and Floola and iDump and iPodRobot.
If you want to recover just the structure of playlists from the iPod (and not the actual song files themselves), there's iRepo for Windows. which I understand has this feature along with all the standard features for these programs.
iPodRip also has the feature enabling you to reconstruct playlists.
There is also CopyTrans. This does preserve ratings/playcounts etc if those are important to you but this program is not free. It also supports video transfer.
More information is contained here.
Copying content from your iPod to your computer - The Definitive Guide.

How to move all music files and pictures from Ipod nano to a new Windows computer that was not backed up on an external harddrive, only found on my ipod.

My windows lap top was recently destroyed to the point of no recovery.
All of my music and picture files are still located on my ipod and I plan on getting a new windows laptop
Is there anyway that I can transfer my (unpurchased) music files and pictures from my ipod nano to my new computer?
The pictures are more important that the music, so if only one is possible, I would prefer that
I appreciate any ones helpful comments

Copy the iTunes library from your backup as below:
iTunes: How to move [or copy] your music to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Quick answer if you use iTunes' default preferences settings: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its subfolders and files) intact to the other drive. Start iTunes with the option (shift on Windows) key held down and guide it to the new location of the library.
Sync with the restored library.

File transfers (photos) from iPod to Powerbook

Hi all-posted this as well in iPhoto...not sure best place to have it addressed:
I recently used my iPod as a hard drive (as I needed my logic board replaced) so I transferred all my files onto it. Now that I'm transferring my files back to my Powerbook G4, I'm struggling to get all my pictures back into iPhoto. I've read thru many posts on this topic and am still struggling. I dragged my iPhoto library (from iPod) onto iPhoto window and it tranferred my pics (and then some!!). It seemed to make duplicates of all of them, some of which were of poor quality. But, my albums (about 10 of them) were not imported. Can I import my albums? Or do I have to create new ones with my pics again? Thanks in advance.
Dino

Dino,
I can't say for certain, but here's my somewhat-educated guess.
You successfully made a copy of your entire iPhoto library onto your iPod. All good. This copy contains your photos as well as the album contents, etc.
But when you copied everything back to your Mac by dragging that iPhoto folder from your iPod, the results were confusing. Technically, they're correct, but it's not the result you wanted. Basically, you told iPhoto to take the backup folder, find each image inside, and add it to a new iPhoto library on your computer. So your photos were added to iPhoto, but so were the thumbnail images that iPhoto generated the first time around (those are the low-quality photos you see now in iPhoto). And since the drag-and-drop step only copied your images, it makes sense that your album data did not migrate over.
What I would suggest it the following:
- on your Mac, start by quitting iPhoto, then find your iPhoto directory and rename it (do not delete it! just rename it). Should go from "/Users/you/Pictures/iPhoto Library" to something like "iPhoto Library unused"
- then drag a copy of the backup iPhoto folder from your iPod to your Mac through Finder (iPhoto is still not running).
- on your Mac, name that copied folder to the same name that the original iPhoto Library was named. So it would be under "/Users/you/Pictures/iPhoto Library"
- start up iPhoto and see what's what. If things worked, iPhoto will still know about your albums and other photo settings.
If this didn't work, I would say it's probably a better use of your time to just manually rebuild your iPhoto library (delete the junk quality images, and recreate your albums by hand).
Hope that helps,
Kaan

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Restoring music to computer from ipod

I had a vrius it wiped out my i tunes libary but i have everything on ipod from before . Now how do i put music back on computer from ipod ?

I think this may be what you are looking for:
[Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848]
Summary
+If you purchased items from the iTunes Store and the only place you have them stored is on your iPod or iPhone, you can transfer them to any computer that is authorized for your iTunes Store account using iTunes 7 or later. This feature adds an extra layer of protection against losing your valued purchases.+
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Restoring music file in iTunes from iPod classic

I have an iPod classic and had it connected to an HP laptop that was subsequently infected by a worm. I still have all of the music, unaffected by the worm, on the iPod. Can I easily upload files from my iPod to the empty itunes music library

Using 3rd party software there is a way (if you search on this forum you'll find it).
The point I was making about the back-up drive is that it's cheap (less than $100) to back up your entire iTunes library to an external drive just in case something like this happens.
A couple years ago I spent a lot of time importing my entire CD collection into iTunes (over 1400 CDs/24,000 songs) and my friend asked me how I was backing these up. I replied that I wasn't since I had all the original CDs. He was thinking about the lost time to restore rather than the lost songs and I realized he was right. I bought a bigger hard drive than was in my computer and now my entire iTunes library is backed up on that drive.
So, it's definitely worth it to buy an external drive for iTunes back up.

Sync files to computer from iPod after hard drive crash

My main hard drive crashed that had all of my music. I'm guessing only a few sectors failed since I was able to recover 95% of my music library but all of my songs had since been transferred to my 64gb gen 5 iPod touch.So now I want to pull all of my music off of my iPod and compare it to the songs I was able to recover (I have already added the recovered songs to itunes).
My problem is that when I sync my iPod I don't see any music at all. When I first connect the iPod it doesn't even show any audio files on the device but when I backup the device it shows the correct size amount for the files (24.88gb). Even though the bar at the bottoms shows that I have 24.88gb of audio files nothing is shown when I click on Music under my device. *** is going on here. I refuse to believe that I can't get the songs FROM my iPod.
Any help here would be much appreciated

Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities
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Your i-device was not designed for unique storage of your media. It is not a backup device and media transfer was planned with you maintaining a master copy of your media on a computer which is itself properly backed up against loss. To use a device with a new computer you transfer the content from the old computer (or its backup) directly to the new computer, not the device to the new computer. Syncing is one way, computer to device, updating the device content to the content on the computer, not updating or restoring content on a computer. The exception is iTunes Store purchases which can be transferred to a computer.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 - only purchases from iTunes Store
For transferring other items from an i-device to a computer you will have to use third party commercial software. See this document by turingtest2: Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991

Files being erased from iPod

When I first got my iPod, I synced it with my dad's computer and then I went to my mom's and synced it again with my computer. When I ynced it with my computer all of the files that were already on it from syncing it with my dad's computer were erased. Is there any way of syncing my iPod with two computers without the files from the other computer being erased?

You have to set it for manually managing the ipod.
more details here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1202

Restore file? .rcp from shallot patch?

I was using a downloaded program from MacUpdate called Measuring Cup to put my recipes on my MacBook. When I opened it today though all my personal input was GONE and it was restored to the original settings. I'm looking to see if anyone knows how to restore the file. It's a listed a .rcp thru a shallot patch. Any help appreciated as I had disposed of some of my recipes in print since putting them on my Mac! Thanks!

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Compress video files for email from iPod

I manage an ipod Lab for an intensive English school. We want students to be able to email themselves larger audio and video files from directly from the iPod without having to go through iTunes/iPhoto. We often run into the problem with files being too large to email and are wondering if there is some sort of compression app that we can install on the iPod that will let us compress large files down for email. Something like ESFileExplorer for Android.
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Video and audio files are almost impossible to compress with a separate general-purpose compressor application. Such compressors just don't work with the way video and audio files are structured and usually make a video or audio file larger, not smaller; they can't shrink the file size and just add unnecessary overhead. The only effective way to shrink a video or audio file is to re-encode the file with a lower bit rate, smaller frame size (for videos) or both. I don't know if there's any app on the iPod that can do such re-encoding, and even if there is, unless these videos and audio files are quite short, it's probable that they can't be shrunk enough to get through most email systems which usually have very low attachment sizes allowed, often on the order of 10 to 20 megabytes maximum.
A cloud-based storage solution such as Dropbox may be the only practical solution, though I'm not sure what video and audio apps would support saving to such as service. Someone else here may be able to offer suggestions.
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Lost hard drive -- need to restore iTunes song library from iPod

i recently purchased my first iPod and downloaded iTunes to my PC. I then loaded 850 songs from my collection of CDs. Shortly after, my hard drive crashed - completely unrecoverable. I bought a new PC (laptop) with Vista. Now i need to reload iTunes. Can i download all of my songs from my iPod onto my newly installed iTunes? I'm afraid that when I "synch" I will lose everything on my iPod since nothing will be in my iTunes library. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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To display hidden files and folders
Open Folder Options in Control Panel.
Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
Double-click Folder Options.
On the View tab, under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders.
Close the window and go to My Computer again.
1. Click on your iPod's drive and go to iPod_Control
2. Click now on Music and you'll see a few folders titled F00, F01, F02, etc.
3. Click on a folder and highlight all the music, and drag them to Library in iTunes. You should now have all the music syncing, and most will be named correctly, but still some you will have to rename
**Also, it helps to have the second checkbox in Edit>Preferences>Advanced checked so that it makes a copy of your music file to an independent iTunes Music Folder.**
~~This being useful in that you'll be able to play all your music without having to have the iPod plugged in~~
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Disk Crashed: can i restore playlist and music from iPod

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My hard drive crashed and I lost everything on that disk. However, I have my music and playlist in my iPod Touch 32gb 2nd Generation. Is it possible to transfer the music and playlist back to my new hard drive?
I also have a backup from the music , but I have tried to import the iTunes Music Library (was in iTunes 9) to the new iTunes 10 and iTunes suddenly crashes.
I know I could just put all the music back but I'll have to make new playlists.. and I want to know how can I recover them either from the iTunes Music Library from iTunes 9 or my iPod
Also, if I put my music back on the disk.. and sync the ipod... i thing the ipod will erase its contents and replace them to be able to sync?

If it is purchased music through iTunes you can simply connect the iPod, open iTunes and go to File > Transfer Purchases.
If the music is not purchased through iTunes you can use this software to move ANY music from the iPod to your Mac: http://www.getsharepod.com/

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