[d_oob]

I've just done a horrible thing, but i'm hoping there is a way to salvage the 10 gigs of music that just got erased from my friends iPod.

I connected it to my iBook and noticed that the list of songs on in iTunes were dimmed. I wasn't able to click on them. I've never connected another iPod to the computer except for my own so the sight of the dimmed music was a little shocking to me. It turns out that my itunes was trying to sync my playlist with there iPod. In other words erasing what was on the iPod and put my tunes on there instead. !!!!! ahHHHHH!!!!

Is there any way to revert?

I'm just hoping that my friend has a backup on her mac.

damn

[Graymalkin]

Sorry, there's no real way to get the old files back. Be careful using auto-sync in iTunes. I really wish a dialog would come up warning people they could possibly nuke the contents of their iPod. I've submitted a bug report to Apple before, maybe you ought to as well. Sorry to hear your friend lost her music.

[torifile]

Umm, there's a dialog box that says "this iPod is paired with another computer" blah blah and it DOES say it will erase everything. Did you click on "ok" with out reading it? Sorry, the stuff is all gone.

[Mastrap]

Originally posted by Graymalkin:
I really wish a dialog would come up warning people they could possibly nuke the contents of their iPod. I've submitted a bug report to Apple before, maybe you ought to as well.

There is. The default button of the warning dialogue is 'no' so you have to be really determined to push the wrong one.

This is not Apple's fault, this is the responsibility of the user.

[Parky]

I assume your friend can just plug his iPod into his own computer and re-sync to replace his own music.

That is if he has them all on his Mac / PC and that they have not been put there from other peoples iTunes (i.e. illegally)

Ian