TrumpetBoy

This morning finds me with my hair well and truly torn out! Last night, I plugged in my iPod to the computer to add an album I’d just purchased from iTunes. Before I knew what had happened, the entire contents of my iPod had been deleted and was replaced with the few albums I had stored locally - from 1742 songs to just 169 in one fail swoop!!!

Obviously this isn’t really that bad in the grand scheme of things but severely irritating as I won’t be back home to my CD collection until December! Luckily I’d backed up some of "My Music" onto the iPod itself in hard-drive mode so I’ve been able to replace up to 450 songs in total now. Also, my Dad shares a similar musical taste to me and has computers coming out of his ears so he is kindly going to send me some data CDs of some of the stuff I’m missing. So all is not lost…

I think this came about as a result of one of my colleagues downloading an iPod utility in my hotel room the other week and then plugging in my iPod to his computer before I could stop him in order to test it. Let this be a lesson to any other iPod users out there - make sure yours is set to Manual Update before you disconnect it from your system. As far as I can reason, this would have prevented the problem.

I do hope that anyone reading this has had a less frustrating morning than me….