I somehow managed to delete all 675+ songs from my iPod and my iTunes library. How stupid of me.
I tied cleaning up my iTunes library on my PC and deleted all the tracks there. I then tried to "sync" my iPod and iTunes- only one playlist, mind you- and the iPod was quickly replaced by everything currently in my iTunes library, That’s righ: NOTHING. All of the songs were wiped out!
The bright sides, and there are many:
- I now know how to avoid trouble with iTunes. Manually update. ALWAYS manually update!
- As my lovely wife put it, "At least this happened now, rather than when you have thousands of songs on it." How true. The days of thousands of songs are not far away, too..
- Even though I’ve only had it a week, it holds 12,000 songs and I only had less than 700 on it, I felt it was already in need of being weeded out. I learned some lessons about uploading- just because you have a CD handy, that doesn’t mean you need to add it to your iPod. Be selective, and you won’t be hitting the skip button constantly.
- I was able to quickly recover all the songs I lost that I downloaded or added from work, as opposed to those I added from home. So I was back at 450 songs in no time (well, I had to get, install and run an udelete program, but it was no time in the grand scheme of things.
- 24 hours later, I have 616 songs on the iPod, many of which are more likely to stay on than the previous batch of tunes.
Disaster averted, lesson learned. iPod and I had a spat, but we’re reunited, and it feels so good.