{"id":155,"date":"2007-04-26T08:18:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T08:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/2007\/04\/26\/ipoditunes_is_cool_until_you_lose_everythingpart_ii\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T08:18:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T08:18:52","slug":"ipoditunes_is_cool_until_you_lose_everythingpart_ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/archives\/ipoditunes_is_cool_until_you_lose_everythingpart_ii.html","title":{"rendered":"iPod\/iTunes is cool until you lose everything&#8230;Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The saga continues..(from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/archives\/ipoditunes_is_cool_until_you_lose_everything.shtml\">Part I<\/a>)&#8230;<br \/>\nSo after many weeks of going cold turkey and doing some research, I finally found my answer on <a href=\"http:\/\/macs.about.com\/od\/ipod\/a\/copy_from_ipod.htm?terms=ipodrip\">About.com<\/a>.  I used a program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittleappfactory.com\/application.php?app=iPodRip\">iPodRip<\/a> which was well worth the $14.95 I paid for it.  I downloaded this program, ran it, opened up all the music (and videos!) on my iPod and copied it all back onto a new external hard drive I bought.<br \/>\nThis took many hours but was finally done.  It was thankfully in the right format, so then I pointed my iTunes music folder to that folder and imported it all to its library, which again took many hours.  But it was mostly back.<br \/>\nAll my videos were gone, but like I said it was unlikely that I would go back and watch all those episodes of Lost or Battlestar Galactica.  If I wanted to watch them again, I resigned myself to buying the whole season again, since our nice friends at Apple decided that upon losing your copy of the music or videos, you&#8217;ll have to buy them again (wonderful).<br \/>\nSo being Mr. Paranoid, I bought two other 750 GB hard drives on which I wanted to copy all my music, for a total of 3 copies of my iTunes folder.  I figure, what&#8217;s the chance of all 3 hard drives dying at once?  So after a few days delay, I finally decided to do that late last week when&#8230;.my Mac mini decided to crash on me.<br \/>\nThis story is never going to end.  I tried Data Rescue on it, but didn&#8217;t want to retrieve the files; I wanted it back up and running!  So tonight, I am bringing it to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store to see if they have suggestions.  Ideally I could just reinstall Mac OS X again on the hard drive and everything would be fine&#8230;theoretically.<br \/>\nAt least I&#8217;m not crying over this.  I didn&#8217;t keep critical data on the Mac Mini hard drive.  It&#8217;ll be a pain to reinstall everything but better than losing data&#8230;.Sigh&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saga continues..(from Part I)&#8230; So after many weeks of going cold turkey and doing some research, I finally found my answer on About.com. I used a program called iPodRip which was well worth the $14.95 I paid for it. I downloaded this program, ran it, opened up all the music (and videos!) on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}