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Man, I feel sick.
I was messing around in Finder and I dragged the little title bar icon of my music folder to the desktop, thinking it was just creating an alias. I deleted it, and habitually immediately emptied the trash. Now my entire iTunes library and live sets are gone.
My library I'm not too upset about, because I can get it all off of my ipod. The thing that sucks the most is losing the Live sets. The only real important one was Black Friday, since my macbook is fairly new and most of the other sets are on my desktop. All I have of Black Friday now is the mp3 I uploaded to my server.
Sadly, this isn't the first time I've accidently deleted large amounts of music projects away into cyber nothingness (although the first time in OS X). Has anyone else had experiences like this? What did you do to hold yourself together? Did crying help? Did you take out your frustration on a random pedesrtrian?
Last time I did this I looked forward to starting fresh, but I wanted to use some of this stuff on a release in the near future. Bleh. Whatever. Life goes on. | |
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12/21/06
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adcBicycle
damn. I totally feel for you. outrageously crappy news.
I'm a believer in the "starting fresh" too... but still, it's a pain.
Maybe you can use some recovery tool? Not sure.
12/21/06
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yghartsyrt
can feel you there.
always, when i add folders to the dock i fear i might delete them accidently as they sit just right besides the trash and just empty the trash out of habit.
hasn't happened yet though.
knock on wood it never will.
12/21/06
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Squeal
Sorry man. I truly regret losing my master tapes of about two years worth of four track stuff. So I know how you feel, sort of. I don't know about recovery.... What if you just did a system restore? I think the way that hard drives work now, your files are probably still there.
12/21/06
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jdg
it still maybe recoverable!
seriously.
try data rescue:
link
12/21/06
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jdg
man.. the trash isn't really "deleted" unless u do a secure empty trash.
your files, most likely, are stil there!
12/21/06
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filarion
if you want to use Data Rescue, turn off the computer NOW and grab it on another computer, then install and do the rescue. osx writes to the system hd all the time, if the headers are lost the file rescue will be a lot harder.
i used data rescue to recover an entire externak harddisk partition i accidentally erased (don't ask).. I never wrote a single thing onto the partition afterwards: about 95% of the files were recoverable, but in my case a lot of the thousands of mp3s had unusable file names, resulting in me having to manually sort through hundreds of files to pick the ones I _really_ needed. it worked though. the larger files (movies and such) didn't loose their filenames strangely enough. that was without actually writing anything back to the drive like your system hd does. good luck getting your data back anyways, Data Rescue seems like the best option anyways and the chances of recovering some specific files should be fairly high.
12/21/06
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Roshi
Auuuggghhhh...that sucks. I had my laptop hard drive fail right before I had to turn in my Master's Thesis, so I feel your pain. 
Good luck with data rescue...hopefully you should at least able to recover most of it.
12/21/06
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AtlusZero
I just started a song, a day ago. Got through most of it. Was almost fineeto when...I try to load a plug in. then...wait for it...the danm thing froz up on me. Total arctic chill. Alaskin nights. Frosties freezer...I think u get the point. All gone. no more song. Must start anew...
12/21/06
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celibacyclub
i say just buy new hard drives. never delete anything. whats a gb cost, like $0.50?
12/21/06
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mixedtape
that sucks dude! but as jdg says, it might still be there. FYI, OSX Leopard's Time Machine will be of great help in situations like this. So i'd make sure to upgrade when it's released.
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albatrocity
Thanks guys! I'm downloading Data Rescue right now.
I'm really excited for Leopard's Time Machine, along with everything else it promises to put out.
ok... do i need to make a seperate partition for data rescue to use as temporary space?
will an ipod work?
12/22/06
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albatrocity
ughhhhh.
So I found my deleted files with Data Rescue, or so I'm assuming. I can't tell because all the file names have changed. I can't tell if it's worth trying to sort them all out or not.
12/22/06
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filarion
can you sort them by size, roughly? best to recover them to an ipod or something similar (network volume?).
I'm also excited about Time Machine, not excited however by the prospect of needing twice the hd space I have now to use it.
12/22/06
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5l4
i accidentally deleted a 2 hour vocal session once. talk about embarassing. calling someone up and being like 'hey, remember that favor you did me? wanna do it again?"
12/22/06
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mulletballet
Ugh.. reminds me of the 'great ASR-10 hard drive crash of 2002' -- my entire sample library and all the custom samples I'd made for the ASR-10 (painstakingly, might I add) -- The drive fired up and could be read, but almost every single file had an error.
"hey, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" -
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