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July 10, 2007
tell me about losing your entire music library
well, i thought i'd backed everything up. what i didn't remember was that i didn't back up the actual music files-- just the xml files.
so i did as the "genius" said, and erased the hard drive, re-installed the OS.
i do have my mail, photos, documents, favorites, other important things. but not the music.
so the music i lost falls into several categories.
- things i bought from the Apple store. i hope i can get this all back fairly easily.
- things i ripped from my own collection. tedious, but recoverable.
- things i ripped at the radio station. with the XML files to guide me, i can probably find a way to recover the things i care about.
- my radio shows. these are gone, there's no way to recover them, unless by some crazy miracle they're on my ipod and i can get them off of there.
it's that last one that gets me, i'm just not going to think about it too hard.
my now-dead 200gb backup drive has the last known backup of my music files, which dates back a couple of years. if that drive had been working when i'd done the backup before going on vacation, i would have backed up the music files and i'd be golden. the computers, they hates me!
:|:
in other news, i'm kind of worried about moses, not for anything really obvious, it just seems like he's sleeping too much. he had a lot of stress recently-- staying with the dog for an extended period, then traveling to Va last weekend-- i'm hoping he'll just sleep it off for a week and then be himself again.
:|:
after staying in clutter-free, daily-cleaned hotel rooms, i'm exasperated with my house. i want less clutter, i want to own less stuff, i want a place for everything, i want the house to feel finished. i know "finished" is usually unrealistic with an older house, but i want some feeling of completion. well, what i really want is to feel like i could put it on the market.
at least it looks like my laptop is back to being fully functional (if a little light in the music library), so i can hopefully wait to replace it more at a time of my own choosing.
Posted by lisa at July 10, 2007 08:54 PM
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That sucks. I'm sorry...
Posted by: Steph Mineart on July 11, 2007 08:08 AM
thanks.
i was able to lift a lot of stuff off my ipod, which is nice.
Posted by: lisa on July 11, 2007 07:24 PM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.