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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:11 AM
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How bad is it that I deleted my daughter's Ipod playlist?
It was an accident. What a stupid piece of equipment that I can't copy the files on her Ipod back to my hard drive.

I bought my son a Nano for his birthday, she had a Mini. I installed the software that came with the Nano and then my PC wouldn't recognize the Mini or the Nano.

So I decided to uninstall the newer software and reinstall the old sofware. I chose a System Restore point. The System Restore point didn't work. Songs all gone. 700 of them.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:12 AM
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1. gasp
:wow:

that SUCKS.
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:17 AM
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4. Damn, I was hoping I was reading instructions wrong and
there was a way to salvage the songs (and myself).

I think I'm going to run away today.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:19 AM
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7. actually, i think there is some software out there you can use
the other thing you can do is set it so you don't automatically update the ipod when you connect to iTunes. it's kind of a pain because you have to manually add any new music, but at least it doesn't erase the music that's on the ipod that isn't on your computer. (if that makes ANY sense)
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:25 AM
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12. Yes it does make sense. I remember that I read that in the
help file. Thanks.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:15 AM
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2. Well I assume the inability to go ipod to PC is to prevent people from
sharing music that way, but it's lame, especially if you've purchased all the music, there should be some "unique license ID" or password you can use to do it.
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:18 AM
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6. What I think is worse is that I need to keep all these files sitting
on my hdd in perpetuity. What a stupid design.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:16 AM
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3. Ouch
Man, that sucks.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:18 AM
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5. Well, at $.99 a song, that's $700 bad.
:scared:
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:20 AM
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9. I think it was mostly CDs that were on her playlist.. I know they
Edited on Thu Mar-16-06 09:29 AM by HopeLives
were not all hers though.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:20 AM
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8. That doesn't make sense no matter how I parse it
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:22 AM
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10. I don't know much about Ipods but it seems I'm supposed
to have a USB 2.0 port for the Nano and I only have USB 1.1. I don't know if when I added the software for the Nano, it then required me to have a USB 2.0.

I'm just really not sure.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:23 AM
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11. System Restore doesn't do anything with personal files
that I can think of. Have you searched your drive for *.mp3 or *.aac ?
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:29 AM
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13. I thought System Restore would revert to the previous version
of the Ipod software that I installed. Only because I have a Gateway with Go Back that will take your entire PC back to a previous state, I thought System Restore would do the same.

No, I haven't searched for those files yet but I will. I was able to pull some out of my trashcan, but I was hoping to get the entire original list because of the sync thing.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:32 AM
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16. Forget the list, what's important is the files
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:33 AM
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17. Thanks. I'll just recreate it the best I can. n/t
Edited on Thu Mar-16-06 09:34 AM by HopeLives
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:29 AM
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14. you owe her, HopeLives
now suck it up
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:31 AM
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15. Yeah, I already took a load of abuse last night for being
such an idiot for installing the new software. Just made it a tiny bit worse.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:48 AM
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20. she has the upper hand for a while
Edited on Thu Mar-16-06 09:50 AM by Skittles
even if you can get it back......that was just plain egregious !!! :o
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:33 AM
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18. There's tons of programs to transfer the files back from the Mini.
I have no idea what they are, but I know there's tons of them. Go to www.ipodlounge.com. There should be plenty of information there.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:35 AM
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19. I'm sure the nursing home they send you to later in life ...
Edited on Thu Mar-16-06 09:36 AM by meegbear
will have gotten it's act together after the 60 Minutes expose on it.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:59 AM
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21. Now the sanctity of marriage will be destroyed!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 11:19 AM
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22. My kids erased my ipod list (700+ songs)
and I was able to reinstall them from my ipod. Just take your time and copy from your daughters ipod to the library.
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 12:29 PM
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26. I have hope that I will resolve this. Thanks. n/t
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 11:49 AM
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23. You are in troooouble -- I'm 41, and would probably have a fit
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 12:28 PM
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25. Yep, we had a blowout last night and I hadn't even deleted the
songs yet. It was a bad one that continued through this morning.

Maybe my subconcious made me do it.:-(
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 12:27 PM
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24. Well, all the other dads are going to thank you,
since you've now completely lapped the field in the race for the "uncoolest dad of the year award". :)

(Being a guy myself, I assume you are a dad - it's more of a man thing to fiddle with electronic stuff until catastrophe occurs.)
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 12:31 PM
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27. Nope, not a guy - but believe it or not I AM the technically
inclined one in the family (even better than my kids - usually).

Believe me, I already know how uncool I am - I try to embrace it.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:14 PM
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28. Sorry - I guess that's what I get for assuming...
Good luck with the fix - I'd offer advice but I have zero experience with either iPods or children...
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:17 PM
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29. If you're able to salvage the situation, post back and let us know how you
did it.
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riona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 05:01 PM
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30. where do we send the flowers?
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:13 PM
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31. Yay, it was only 200 songs and I got them all back and I got
both the Nano and Mini to work! Everyone loves me again!

I reinstalled the new software and the playlist came back.

It ended up that the reason the Nano wouldn't work was because of a bad cable. I learned my lesson about buying an open box item (though maybe the aggravation was worth the 75.00 savings).
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:19 PM
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32. Congrats! you'd be surprised how much computer problems are
just bad connections.
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