Hard Drive Crash - How to Download iPod?

petessnaps · 03-20-2008, 07:58 PM

HELP!!! hard drive crashed, machine repaired, iTunes reinstalled and re-authorised. My complete library, including playlists, are on my iPod and I want to copy this back across to the pc. I'm afraid if I just connect them, the empty database on the pc will overwright the ipod and the world will end.

Please don't be like my mum and tell me I should have backed everything up twice; let's stay with the here-and-now foolish position I'm in, and someone save the day..... Today? before the weekend?

I suspect this has been answered before but I'd be grateful if I could get it again please.

Woofus · 03-20-2008, 09:21 PM

Originally Posted by petessnaps

HELP!!! hard drive crashed, machine repaired, iTunes reinstalled and re-authorised. My complete library, including playlists, are on my iPod and I want to copy this back across to the pc. I'm afraid if I just connect them, the empty database on the pc will overwright the ipod and the world will end.

Please don't be like my mum and tell me I should have backed everything up twice; let's stay with the here-and-now foolish position I'm in, and someone save the day..... Today? before the weekend?

I suspect this has been answered before but I'd be grateful if I could get it again please.

I use Tansee to do it. Easy program and well worth the 20 bucks it costs.

http://www.tansee.com/

petessnaps · 03-24-2008, 04:34 AM

Originally Posted by Woofus

I use Tansee to do it. Easy program and well worth the 20 bucks it costs.

http://www.tansee.com/

Many thanks woofus, I'll check out the link. I used a freebie, sharepod, it did the trick but I had to a bit of housekeeping afterwards, No big deal though, I'm back in business.

psylichon · 04-27-2008, 01:11 AM

If nothing else, if you're jailbroken you can go into the iTunes folder via SSH and retrieve everything, albeit completely renamed, reorganized, and reaggravationated.

petessnaps · 04-28-2008, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by psylichon

If nothing else, if you're jailbroken you can go into the iTunes folder via SSH and retrieve everything, albeit completely renamed, reorganized, and reaggravationated.

Cheers Dave, I managed to solve the problem and I now have back-ups.

psylichon · 04-28-2008, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by petessnaps

Cheers Dave, I managed to solve the problem and I now have back-ups.

seriously, you did what I said? How on earth could you make sense of all that? How big was your library?

You must be a patient man.

petessnaps · 04-28-2008, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by psylichon

seriously, you did what I said? How on earth could you make sense of all that? How big was your library?

You must be a patient man.

LMTO - no man, I didn't do what you said, I managed to recover the libraray with just a few lost songs, since also recovered. But thanks anyway.

psylichon · 04-29-2008, 03:24 AM

LM*T*O? Wow! Well, glad you got it sorted regardless.

TriangularDinosaur · 05-17-2008, 09:21 AM

I know that you found a way to solve this on your own already, but in case anyone else with similar problems peeks in here, I've used a free iPod management program called Yamipod to extract the contents of my ipod to a single place. I don't remember whether I saw any of the irregularities involving file names. Perhaps that only happens if one takes the files from the ipod manually, by treating it as a removable storage device. I'm not sure what you ended up doing, but whatever it was, if it worked for you, I give you major props.