[muglo] Re: there's a reason I didn't backup my HD before

On 20-Jun-09, at 1:05 PM, Douglas Feick wrote:

> I had made with Audacity. I checked
> my new Seagate HD backup copy to be sure they were there

Are they still in the backup?

> then I
> opened the folder on my desktop HD with those particular files in it
> and trashed them. When I emptied the trash, I watched in horror as I
> saw the number of files being deleted was over   6,000

Looks like you deleted the original files, yes?

> and before I
> could grab the mouse they were gone. I checked, and yes, my entire
> itunes library was empty. I only trashed the one file, how could they
> all disappear?

The file iTunes Library is only a directory. You trashed the  
directory, so iTunes now doesn't know anything about the songs, or  
where they are. Presumably, they are in the backup still. Correct?

if my reading is correct here, you need to restore the files from the  
backup

If you want to clear up some hard drive - or as you say 'clear up the  
memory from your desktop', you'll need to store the music files on  
another hard drive. Not your backup drive. Not your main drive.

Put an alias of the restored iTunes Library in the place where iTunes  
expects the document to be, and iTunes will find the file at the new  
location.

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