how to copy itunes songs from ipod nano back to pc
my wife recently received a $50 gift card to purchase songs on itunes. she made the purchases from her laptop and put the songs on her ipod nano.
we recently moved her laptop from the office domain to a home workgroup and the songs have dissappeared from the itunes program on the laptop.
also I cannot find them in her old account folder under documents and settings. all i can remember seeing are shortcuts to the song titles but they don't point to anything.
she is afraid to hook the nano back to the laptop since it might resync the nano and delete the songs.
does anyone have any idea what happened and if the songs can be recovered from itunes or directly from the nano?
thanks in advance.
we recently moved her laptop from the office domain to a home workgroup and the songs have dissappeared from the itunes program on the laptop.
also I cannot find them in her old account folder under documents and settings. all i can remember seeing are shortcuts to the song titles but they don't point to anything.
she is afraid to hook the nano back to the laptop since it might resync the nano and delete the songs.
does anyone have any idea what happened and if the songs can be recovered from itunes or directly from the nano?
thanks in advance.
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I'm not sure that the optins presente in the referenced question will apply to a nano.
So you are telling me ipod is so stupid that transfering files off one ipod is different than transfering files off another? What a retarded business model. Either that or you misunderstand how they work, either way is rather scary.
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Before you panic .. I will bet that the music files are still on the Laptop .. just in a different user folder.
Try this (you may need to login as an Admin user to do this)
On the PC .. go to the C:\Documents and Settings folder .. inside you'll see several folders including
All Users
Administrator
and most importantly the Home folder for your wifes new and old accounts will be there.
The problem often is that the name of the folder may not correspond to what she logs in as .. so I recommend doing the following
1> Use the Windows Find command to search the ENTIRE C: drive (and D drive if there is one) for *.AAC or *.MP3 files and it sould track down where the music files are hiding.
2> Move them into the My Music, iTunes Music folder in her new Home Folder
3> Authorise the iTunes account with the iTunes Store and then you can safely plug the iPod back in!!
Try this (you may need to login as an Admin user to do this)
On the PC .. go to the C:\Documents and Settings folder .. inside you'll see several folders including
All Users
Administrator
and most importantly the Home folder for your wifes new and old accounts will be there.
The problem often is that the name of the folder may not correspond to what she logs in as .. so I recommend doing the following
1> Use the Windows Find command to search the ENTIRE C: drive (and D drive if there is one) for *.AAC or *.MP3 files and it sould track down where the music files are hiding.
2> Move them into the My Music, iTunes Music folder in her new Home Folder
3> Authorise the iTunes account with the iTunes Store and then you can safely plug the iPod back in!!
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the laptop has vista installed but i think i basically did the search that you described. Nothing shows up either under *.aac, *.mp3 or portions of the song name.
My wife talked to to itunes friday and will call them back with the serial number off the nano. Maybe with her purchase history and the serial number they can credit the account.
My wife talked to to itunes friday and will call them back with the serial number off the nano. Maybe with her purchase history and the serial number they can credit the account.
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We called itunes with the serial number. they had us delete an itl file from the new user itunes directory, hook up the nano and then download purchased songs from the itunes store to the library. i'm not sure what they did if anything server side but everything is ok now.