Matt, iTunes has a habit of resetting its directory in my experience, so Tim may well be correct. I store my mp3s on an external drive and iTunes always resets to that My Documents/iTunes folder if for any reason it can't find the external folder. You may want to take a look to see if your iTunes library file (.itl extension on Windows) is still where it should be n'all.
There's a shareware program out there called iGadget that allows you to copy files back from your iPod onto your hard drive (try looking for it on download.com). I think you can also make sure that iTunes doesn't delete what's currently on the pod by turning the pod synch off before you connect it. Good luck! birds ----- Original Message ----- From: MATTHEW GAYNOR To: Tim Greenwood Cc: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [LU] [Non-LU] ITunes Help Would have to check when i get home - but i would think that they are still there as it would take a long time for the PC to delete that many files - and surely i'd have noticed. Still incredibly annoying because even if i find them there and restore them i'm still going to lose all the ratings and playlists - along with all the history of how often each song has been played (which being an anal Accountant type i really like). Was just praying someone would say that ITunes automatically back itself up and if you find file Itunes*&*.x*kf then i can recover everything. It does look like ITunes has been reinstalled from scratch but again surely the time that takes i'd have noticed Matt Tim Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you looked to see if the folder where ITunes thinks the music is stored actuall has it? Typically this is My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music. In ITunes look under Edit/Preferences/Advanced. If the files are on your disk then you will be able to get them back into ITunes. Before you do anything else back them up. If not then you will have a tougher job. Look on the Apple site for the discussion forum. - Tim _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist it's a God awful small affair _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist it's a God awful small affair
