[iTunes] Re: BEWARE: serious crash in iTunes 4!!!!!

[Kunga]

Yes. I just lost most of my rips, although some of them are backed up 
on CD-Rs, to a HD crash. Disk Warrior 2.1 arriving Friday for what I 
hope will be a happy ending. But I was going to re-rip my collection 
the same way Michel is doing.

Did you all know that since going too OS X we were susposed to 
initialize our HDSs for maximum OS X compatibility? I just read that 
from another list member yesterday. I hadn't done that with my HD that 
just decided to fail as I was hot booting it up in its FW case after 
waking my Cube from sleep first. My bad for not ejecting it from the 
desktop before putting the Cube to sleep the night before. But this was 
not a problem for a long time of this kind of reckless behavior. ; ^ )

k

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 09:56  PM, Todd Masco wrote:

> Michel Coste wrote:
>> When I relaunched iTunes all the library info remaining was about the
>> remaining mp3 tunes!!!!!
>> ALL info concerning aac tunes had disappeared!!!!
>
> Depending upon what you're concerned about losing, perhaps all is not 
> lost!  Go to the Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/... folders and find the 
> .m4a files... dragging them over the iTunes application (or importing 
> them from the File->Import... menu item) will restore them to the 
> iTunes library.  Dragging whole directories will work too, but you 
> might want to experiment with one to assure yourself that it works.
>
> If you're concerned only about having lost the meta-data, I don't know 
> whether there's an equivalent to ID3 tags in AAC files, sorry...
>
> You're right of course, backing up music libraries is a very good 
> idea.  I once lost several hundred ripped CDs to a crash.  I went out 
> the next day and bought several external firewire drives exclusively 
> for backups.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> 	-- Todd