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By Anonymous - 21/09/2009 20:22 - United States

Today, I got a new computer because my old one crashed, deleting all music, photos, and documents. I still had all my music on my iPod though, and went to sync it to the new computer. By accident, my younger brother pulled the cord out before it was done, deleting all 3,000 songs forever. FML
I agree, your life sucks 50 088
You deserved it 7 087

Same thing different taste

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cupcakeqt 0

through the apple store you can re-download your purchases up to 3 times. there's how-to's all over the internet, good luck!!

flyboy57 0

invest in an external hard drive for backing your stuff up.

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That happened to me once. :/ My computer crashed, my external drive died, and my iPod went on the fritz all at once. FYL dude.

Yeah that happened to me... except with 8,000 songs.

ThisRandomChild 0

Sorry to hear. Unfortunately for you, it isnt a contest, and you could barely like or wanna listen to 3k songs anyways, much less 8k. Hell, I dont even know three thousand songs. Y-both-di for being a culture slave.

ThisRandomChild 0

Sorry to hear. Unfortunately for you, it isnt a contest, and you could barely like or wanna listen to 3k songs anyways, much less 8k. Hell, I dont even know three thousand songs. Y-both-di for being culture slaves.

fishyfingaz 0

unless the hard drive died in the old pc you can easily get the tracks back.

mycleverusername 0

That really, really sucks regardless of whether you got the songs legally or illegally, although legally is clearly more crushing. Losing your entire library is like losing all your old family photos in a fire....at least if you're a huge music person. Next time back up your files on a portable hard drive or something.

dore 0

you still have the drm, just redownload it

FYL for buying a new computer instead of just reinstalling the OS.

Made up, that wouldnt happen. The songs would all still be on the ipod. Trust me I work for apple.

randomoutburst 0

Trust ME, it's possible because it's happened to me. I used my iPod as an external hard drive and lost not only most of my songs, but all my photos and files were corrupted. I don't give a shit if you work for Apple - anything electronic can **** itself up if you do something you aren't supposed to do to it.

Dcvictorious 0

Really cos, I work for "You don't know what you're talking about and are too much of a tool to admit that something could go wrong company" and I would like to offer you a job with us. I bet you're one of those customer care line workers who instead of helping them tells them it's impossible for Ipods to **** up, in fact, Ipods majorly **** up all the time, for instance, I have a 30Gb 5th Generation- Head phone port ****** up and the one I got to replace it, freezes and eats the battery, don't get me wrong I love my Ipod and couldn't live without it, but these are things I hope you work on. Especially with the Iphone as I've heard many stories of that ******* up.

Look stupid, this can't happen. If you understand how hard drives work you'd know this. A hard drive has a "table of contents" so to speak at the beginning. When you delete a file on your computer (or iPod!) all that's actually rewritten is the "page number" of the "chapter". The data is still there, but the computer knows that it can put new data on that spot. Any simple file-recovery tool can scan the hard drive and find all the files you thought you deleted. As long as this isn't an iPod Touch or iPhone, she can just "enable external hard drive" in iTunes. (or something like that. I forget what it says exactly) Then the iPod will be assigned a drive letter and she can scan it with a file recovery program. Of course, she could have done this with the hard drive from her crashed computer most likely.

Dcvictorious 0

Pretty much you just said she'd have to recover the songs, meaning that they are currently missing on the Ipod but are backed up, so pretty much, they are there but you proved yourself wrong in a way. I don't care how hard drives work as long as they work for me

no the files aren't gone and don't really need the traditional recovery per say, the idnex just got destroyed when the cord got seperated.

Exactly. I tried to spell out the concept of the index with the "table of contents" analogy, but that guy is still to stupid to understand.

AwThatSucksGurl 0

Truee i would have maded him download 3000 songs he could think of

megothelego 0

I call BS. I've pulled the plug out of my ipod before it was done updating and everything was still there.