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so what you're saying is that you didn't use the tools provided, or pay attention to the backup you were trying to use? this doesn't sound like software hate to me, this sounds like self-love. On 12/4/06, sabrina downard <viv@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > On 7/10/06, sabrina downard <viv@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > Dear Apple: > [snip] > > Okay. Whatever. I have that album on this laptop and I don't know > > why you're whinging about it anyways, as I didn't ask you to "copy" > > anything. 'Cos it was already *there* and all. But whatever, I > > didn't want to listen to that band at the moment (and I can always go > > type in my stupid iTunes Music Store password if I did). I want to > > listen to those new MP3s......hey, WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GO? > > Hah! I figured out how to experience this in an even more annoying > fashion. (I never learn.) > > Step 1: Buy shiny new laptop with latest, greatest, et cetera. > Step 2: Copy entire iTunes music library over from external fw disk > to new laptop. > Step 3: Copy an old 'iTunes Library' data file that's six months out > of date (the one off the firewire disk rather than from ~ on old > laptop) > Step 4: Fail to notice that although all your music is actually > present, iTunes doesn't know about anything after that old data file > Step 5: Plug in iPod Shuffle because its battery needs charging -- > and you figure that it won't destroy any data on it because hey, this > is *exactly the same music repository* as from the other laptop, from > which it was loaded > Step 6: 'iPod update is complete.' No warning that it's going to > destroy my data! Awesome, it must have worked. <--- This is the > point where I never, ever, *ever* clue in that having hope is the > first step towards disappointment. > Step 7: Click on iPod in iTunes. Realize that half the music is > gone. Again, all deleted files were unprotected MP3s. The stuff that > was missing was the stuff that was newer than the iTunes Library file. > Step 8: flail ineffectually and make obscene gestures in the general > direction of California. > Step 9: click File -> Add to Library, select the stupid damn > Music/iTunes folder. > Step 10: reload what it deleted onto iPod. > > stupid iTunes. stupid iPod. stupid Apple. stupid half-assed > attempts at DRM that are neither effective, efficient, or CORRECT. > > --s, who detests being assumed to be a de facto thief just because she > uses files in a particular format. >There's stuff above here
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