How bad is it that I deleted my daughter's Ipod playlist?

[seaglass]

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.

[progmom]

1. gasp

:wow:

that SUCKS.

[seaglass]

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.

[progmom]

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)

[seaglass]

12. Yes it does make sense. I remember that I read that in the

help file. Thanks.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

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.

[seaglass]

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.

[johnnie]

3. Ouch

Man, that sucks.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. Well, at $.99 a song, that's $700 bad.

:scared:

[seaglass]

9. I think it was mostly CDs that were on her playlist.. I know they

were not all hers though.

[DS1]

8. That doesn't make sense no matter how I parse it

[seaglass]

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.

[DS1]

11. System Restore doesn't do anything with personal files

that I can think of. Have you searched your drive for *.mp3 or *.aac ?

[seaglass]

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.

[DS1]

16. Forget the list, what's important is the files

[seaglass]

17. Thanks. I'll just recreate it the best I can. n/t

[Skittles]

14. you owe her, HopeLives

now suck it up

[seaglass]

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.

[Skittles]

20. she has the upper hand for a while

even if you can get it back......that was just plain egregious !!! :o

[bbernardini]

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.

[meegbear]

19. I'm sure the nursing home they send you to later in life ...

will have gotten it's act together after the 60 Minutes expose on it.

[UrbScotty]

21. Now the sanctity of marriage will be destroyed!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Beer Snob-50]

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.

[seaglass]

26. I have hope that I will resolve this. Thanks. n/t

[LostinVA]

23. You are in troooouble -- I'm 41, and would probably have a fit

[seaglass]

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.:-(

[petronius]

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.)

[seaglass]

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.

[petronius]

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...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

29. If you're able to salvage the situation, post back and let us know how you

did it.

[riona]

30. where do we send the flowers?

[seaglass]

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).

[Hissyspit]

32. Congrats! you'd be surprised how much computer problems are

just bad connections.