[Cube] Re: Cube Emergency: Please Help

[George Pepper]

I managed to get all my data off the Cube before the drive motor toasted itself.

Now I need a new HD.  Guess this is an "oportunity" to upgrade.

Thanks.

Pep

RANT/ P.S.  A couple of people mentioned a couple of ways to get my library off of my iPod.  One even e-mailed me off line with a plug-in that's really cool [But that Apple squashed, natch].  Now, I'm probably the least computer literate person on this list [I don't want to know any more about computers than I absolutely have to to use them: That's why I use Apples (I still think UNIX is a hoax. I've never seen it.)], but isn't it IMPOSSIBLE to take MP3's off of an iPod from a computer whose iTunes library the iPod isn't linked to?  For example, I put the plug-in into my Xserve.  I've never used iTunes on the Xserve, so the library is empty.  If I plug my iPod into the Xserve, the first thing the idiotic POS does is launch iTunes and ask me if I want to sync the iPod to this computer.  As much as an Apple ludite as I am, even I know that would ERASE my iPod.  There appears to be no way around this at all. So, am I correct in concluding that IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO RESCUE MY ITUNES LIBRARY IF THE HD HAD DIED BEFORE I TRANSFERRED IT TO MY POWERBOOK?  Being a musician, I'm VERY fussy about copyright law, and think long and hard before I use any software that is "illegal", but my iTunes library is MINE! I bought all the music, and I spent the countless hours ripping the CD's, so I want to be able to put it on all four of my computers so that it's adequitely backed up. I think Apple is WRONG not to allow users to back up their iTunes library to their other computers (Who only has ONE Apple?), so I'd be interested in a reliable program that could do this. Illegal or not. /RANT
 
On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, at 06:31AM, t c k <parkblue at gmx.net> wrote:

>Perhaps DiskWarrior can help rescue things to the point where you can suck
>the data out of the drive? My experiences with it since v2.1 are A+.
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>-tobias.
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>On 12.10.04 01:29 George Pepper <pep27 at mac.com> wrote:
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>> Subject: [Cube] Cube Emergency: Please Help
>> 
>> My hard drive is about to die.  I've heard that "whine" before, and it was
>> just a few boots before the HD imploded upon itself [Different computer; not
>> even mine].  This is the original HD the Cube came with, so I can't say I'm
>> surprised. Anyway, I've managed to transfer everything out of the Cube to the
>> Xserve EXCEPT MY MONUMENTALLY VAST iTUNES LIBRARY!  I logged on to the Cube
>> from the Xserve via the AirPort and found the library, but it gets to a
>> certain point and aborts because it says it can't locate certain data or
>> something [I think that's because the directory starts out with an alias].
>> Anyway, that taught me that the AirPort is too freaking slow, if nothing else,
>> so I'm going to try putting my TiBook in Target Mode and use FireWire [It'll
>> still take for... ever... because the library is so humongous].  Problem is,
>> the directory starts out with a freaking ALIAS!  So what EXACTLY do I transfer
>> over?  This is probably really simple and I just can't think because I'm fr
>> eaking out at the HUNDREDS OF CD DOWNLOAD HOURS I put into this library, and
>> I'd hate to have to do it all over again.
>> 
>> Or, is there some way to take the library out of the iPod?
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