Re: [microsound] iTunes just ate a bunch of my unreleased music

[Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

bryan garcia wrote:

> though i imagine you've already looked everywhere.

cd /
find . -iname "*.aif*"
find . -iname "*.wav"

found some files, but didn't find the ones i was looking for.

> another possibility, if you don't have time machine, and cant revert, is
> to look at your itunes archived library.   you'll need to go to help
> menu, but what i've been doing to conserve space is deleting the history
> of archived libraries, and you can revert to one of your old ones if you
> don't delete them as i do.

don't know what you're talking about with this one. i'm on 10.4.

> i do group editing as well, and there  is the auto complete function
> that suggests artist name as you are typing.   i wonder if instead of
> labeling the songs as you wanted,  it chose one of the auto complete
> titles, in which case your music might have gotten mislabeled and is now
> sorted as "mili vanilli, or rick astley or something.   check all the
> band names associated with what you were tentatively titling your music.

i just reordered my library by time (the two files i'm most pissed about 
were around about 47 and 53 minutes long, respectively). nothing.

> sounds like user error to me.

nope. gone gone gone.

iTunes deletes files.

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