Auto-Update Ate My iPod

February 3, 2006 7:53 PM

I had several gigs worth of music on my iPod, with a smaller subset with some of that music on my Mac. When I attached my iPod to my machine, it was set to auto-update...and now the music on my iPod is gone, and I've just got the smaller subset! Is there a way to recover the music? How do I do it? Help!
posted by fandango_matt to computers & internet (4 comments total)

You could try to run a program like Data Rescue on your iPod, hoping that the "deleted files" are still there because they haven't been overwritten.

(That's a OSX program, if someone has a PC, any hard drive recovery, or "deleted file recovery" should work).

It worked for my brother's iPod, and he was in a similar situation. If you manage to recover the songs, keep them on your computer too. And set iTunes to "Manual Update" with your iPod. What happened is it tried to sync with the iPod and iTunes library.
posted by visual mechanic at 8:04 PM on February 3, 2006

That did the trick--THANK YOU!
posted by fandango_matt at 7:43 PM on February 4, 2006

Wow, that's great news. Glad I could help.
posted by visual mechanic at 10:28 PM on February 4, 2006

I wound up using another program of theirs called TuneTech specifically for iPods, but yes, thanks again.
posted by fandango_matt at 5:14 PM on February 5, 2006