my computer crashed and I had to restore it to factory settings....losing my itunes and all on it !!! I hadnt backed it up.....i have about8000 songs/videos on my ipod...can I transfer it all back onto my computer????

thanks

I hate computers, they break your heart.

I hope you can, cause that really sucks and I wish I could give you a definite yes, but I'm not sure. Fingers crossed!

peppeken said:

See this is why we all should really stick with vinyl

endymion said:

my copy of Star Trekkin is warped and doesn't sound so good. Please help

You got puter AIDS

Sure there is a way something similar happened to me a while back , will look into it again for you

ZombieKitten said:

Put it in the sun and see if it can warp back into shape

i remember that song

It can be done!

endymion said:

maybe I could put it in the dishwasher?

You can send me a sloppy wet kiss

http://www.ipod2computer....4wodiEucDw

your files are still on your computer, you just have to re-enter them in iTunes and then do a new update of your library....

Pochacco said:

thanks so much

ZombieKitten said:

I would reload ITunes first. IF it recognizes the computer it may just reload it into ITunes. I back my music up on a separate drive and on discs.

Senuti. iPoddisk.

Google those programs. Either work great. There are progs to let you pull songs back off an iPod. They'll be renamed and it's a bitch to figure out which is which. BUT you could just drag them back into iTunes and let them be. The ID3 tags will be intact, so you can at least know what they are in iTunes. The file names will be impossible to figure out.

You don't need any special programs to do this. Reload Itunes as the factory reset will probably have restored from a ghost image and therefore wiped your files. Reload Itunes and it will create an itunes folder. Then set it to not auto open when you plug the ipod in. Once done plug the ipod in and go to start,control panel,folder options, then find the "show hidden files and folders" option on the view tab.
Then go to my computer and where you see your ipod open it to explore. Drag the folders (it will look like gibberish) in to your itunes folder.

Go to itunes and click file,add folder to library and go to the itunes folder. Add the folder you dragged in to the library.

Go in to options and check the option for "allow itunes to sort and organize" (or some shit like that)

Check the tab that allows Itunes to open when you plug the ipod in and hey presto. Itunes will organize and reimport all your tunes.

Job done

resolve said:

It doesn't work that way. The iPod is made NOT to be able to browse it and pull songs OFF of it. It would be a file sharing device that way, and therefore illegal. You're talking about using iPod in Disk Mode, but that's not the same partition where the songs are kept.

If they plug their iPod into a freshly reformatted computer, it'll sync with whatever is in iTunes, not the reverse. Therefore, if there is nothing in iTunes, the iPod will be wiped of all its songs.

Using Senuti (iTunes backwards), or iPodDisk or just googling the problem, the help is there.

ernestsewell said:

Whatever you say! I have done it 3 or 4 times

You could also take these people at their word as well as me if you like:

http://www.wikihow.com/Re...-(Windows)

or these

http://www.wikihow.com/Ma...-Your-iPod

or these



But obviously you know better than those (including me) that have done it.

Oh and BTW we are not talking about BROWSING it. The IPOD stores the songs in a totally unrecognizable file structure so you cant browse it and pick songs, however when you need to recover the whole lot you follow the steps and Itunes deciphers the crap and resorts them for you. So no, it isn't file sharing. Oh and if your definition of "files sharing" was correct then external hard drives would be illegal!

resolve said:

Le sigh. Hard head.

ernestsewell said:

Is it hard headed to prove you are 100% correct or not admit you were wrong?

get this program. i got it from kmart for $9.99. my pc crashed and it found not only all of my itune songs, it found music files i didn't remember i had. you just stick the disc in (you have to have a dvd drive though) and it finds all your files and saves them to a dvd that's already programmed. you can then load all that info to another pc if you like. it took 30 minutes to transfer 9 discs of music--which is really fast. they also have ones for pictures and data files too fyi

resolve said:

I can't speak to your method. I know what works for me, therefore, I am 100% right as well. It's not a pissing contest.

ernestsewell said:

Now you can't speak to my method and yet you first of all tried?

Your words were



So yeah, you were wrong.

No one else started with the "I am right, you are wrong" but you. You started a pissing contest and then you lost.

Hard headed....much?
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resolve said:

Nope, I'm right. Senuti works.

ernestsewell said:

Nobody said it didn't, what they said was that there is another method to which you replied



Nobody said you were wrong about Sentui. I simply pointed out there was another method. It was you that said

and on THAT point and that point only you were WRONG.

What was that about hard headed?
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JerseyKRS said:

Yeah, that point crossed my mind too

iDump

http://download.cnet.com/...?tag=mncol

OR download from here... one of these had "expired" or something.

http://www.softpedia.com/...23799.html

Here's the instructions how to do it on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/wa...VxszqeyQQQ



When you reformat your HD and reinstall iTunes can't you now just go to File to Tranfer's Purchases to Peppekn's iPod?

Try the latter first and see if it works and if it doesn't, iDump will do the trick very easy to use/understand. Someone on the org hooked me up to this program.. a couple of weeks ago.

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heybaby said:

I was gonna try this.
just one question..will it work on all MP 3 players?..or does it have to be an ipod?

sonic said:

I think its just for ipods . But I thought that mp3 players allow you to transfer music back and forth my brother would do it all the time when he transfer for music from his mp3 player on to my mac.