Data Retrieval ...cursed Ipod hung.

[Lionel Ritchie]

My 8GB Ipod ??? Shuffle ? Nano? I dunno -was routinely connected to a PC to drag and drop a some work. ( couldn't be bothered using it as a walkman .... i just use it as a portable hard drive ...it is set up for that annoying, clanky itunes thing mind).

Anyway, PC hung, stopped talking to it ...never commenced talking to it in fact. Now all it or my alternate platform -a laptop - will do is ask if I want to reformat it so it can be used with the wonderful itunes. Won't "open" it to view files, won't even open it to view an empty folder if they've all been dumped. There was no time to dump the data on it for that matter ...there was over five gigs of data -that doesn't just vanish in a second. It takes time to delete that amount of stuff and reformat.

Ideas and suggestions very much invited and gratefully recieved.

yours lividly,

LR

[pól-dcfc]

My 8GB Ipod ??? Shuffle ? Nano? I dunno -was routinely connected to a PC to drag and drop a some work. ( couldn't be bothered using it as a walkman .... i just use it as a portable hard drive ...it is set up for that annoying, clanky itunes thing mind).

Anyway, PC hung, stopped talking to it ...never commenced talking to it in fact. Now all it or my alternate platform -a laptop - will do is ask if I want to reformat it so it can be used with the wonderful itunes. Won't "open" it to view files, won't even open it to view an empty folder if they've all been dumped. There was no time to dump the data on it for that matter ...there was over five gigs of data -that doesn't just vanish in a second. It takes time to delete that amount of stuff and reformat.

Ideas and suggestions very much invited and gratefully recieved.

yours lividly,

LR

Presumably a nano. Data recovery is both tough and expensive. If there is a hardware fault you could be looking at over €100 and there is no guarantee that you get the data back. Please tell me you had the files backed-up rather than just on a notoriously unreliable and liable to break iPod...

I never understand why people only have one copy of important files, particularly if that one copy is on removable media. Two backups for anything remotely important, two physical backups and an online back-up for anything vitally important, minimum.*

Try resetting your ipod. The method for this depends on your model, but check the apple site. Beyond this, I'm not sure that there is any reasonably affordable option available.



*This isn't a dig, or a "you silly *******" message - I've only modified my ways after several costly data lossages.

[Lionel Ritchie]

Presumably a nano. Data recovery is both tough and expensive. If there is a hardware fault you could be looking at over €100 and there is no guarantee that you get the data back. Please tell me you had the files backed-up rather than just on a notoriously unreliable and liable to break iPod....

A little research has me concluding it's a series 5 or issue 5 Ipod (that's all -no mention of nano or shuffle or whatever...) and yeah the online hawkers that reckon they've the software to recover it (and who reek of snake-oil) promise absolutely nothing for your $95.99

Most of what I'd on it was backed up elsewhere -in fact I'd use the Ipod to transfer files between work and home machines. Unfortunately I'd been engineering some audio recordings for a couple of days now and that work is lost ...but it could've been much worse. I still have the raw, unedited files elsewhere. But indeed I should've backed up the sessions as I went

Try resetting your ipod. The method for this depends on your model, but check the apple site. Beyond this, I'm not sure that there is any reasonably affordable option available.

*This isn't a dig, or a "you silly *******" message - I've only modified my ways after several costly data lossages.

Not at all Pól -good advice greatfully accepted in the spirit it was offered -and if someone else makes compost out of our ****e so much the better.