Gad! I’ve just deleted all my music files from my hard drive to save space and now all I have is them on my iPod – how can I get them back?
This is the dilemma that faced me yesterday, as I realised that in order to send a copy of my own smashing music (that is, music to smash your head into a brick wall with) that I wrote in the 80s and 90s across to my man Jenkins I needed to rescue those toons from the depths of my iPod.
Silly me – I thought that if the tunes were in iTunes they were safe. And to some extent they were, but it was due to my own computer configuration that I deleted a large block of music.
You see, I stored digital copies of all my cds (I have quite a few) on a portable 300gb Iomega hard drive. The iTunes software stored music on my pc hard drive. I erroneously thought that when I added music on my Iomega drive to my iTunes library they would be copied across to the pc hard drive.
So to save space I deleted the 27gb of music from my Iomega drive. Ooops! Wrong move. I was faced with the prospect of laboriously copying my cds into iTunes one by one — a process that had taken me long days before; having to do it again was a nightmare!
But a quick trip around Google brought me to Music Rescue, a £10 piece of software that has saved the day.
Actually, you can use their excellent software for free, but the nag screens stop the upload process, so I figure £10 is money well spent.
5,763 track transfers later and I’m a happy man who can now zip up his album of music and wing it on its merry way to Jenkins, who will reciprocate with a cd of his stepdaughter.
Lucky, lucky Jenkins…
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