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I have a Mac OS X Snow Leopard with my iTunes Music folder located on my external hard drive (Western Digital® My Book Essential Edition™). The other night I was listening to my music & everything was all good & fine--apart from two or three accidental USB disconnections (but I do that all the time) & the following morning absolutely NOTHING was in my iTunes folder--not iTunes Music, not Previous iTunes Libraries, NOTHING. Then I checked it it wasn't just iTunes that I had trouble with. Literally every single one of my subfolders were either completely missing or just had nothing in them & the only files remaining are only a few KB & can't even open. I literally lost everything & this makes ZERO sense--and I'm 100% certain that I didn't delete anything.
It's not in my Trash bin, not in the drive's Recycle Bin--nothing. Not even moved to Users:[My Name]:Music:iTunes on the local drive, either. Completely vanished. I'm pretty computer savvy & I can't even figure this out. I had about 2,348 songs on my iTunes/iPod, and now I can pretty much never sync again . . . some PLEASE help me b/c this is literally a worst dream come true. I cared more about my iTunes music than all my ex-girlfriends out together, ha. Again, it's not even just iTunes; it's the entire drive. The clincher is that when I check my disk space it still shows the same as if all the files are still on there. I just cannot find them. And, no, it's not even a matter of things being "hidden" or in Safe Mode or anything.
I even connected to the drive to my PC inside to check for bad sectors using CHKDSK & absolutely nothing changed. Last time that's what saved me . . . I really think the files are still on there. I'm just clueless as to how I can save them--esp. the iTunes files!
. . . {cries} Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!!
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It's not in my Trash bin, not in the drive's Recycle Bin--nothing. Not even moved to Users:[My Name]:Music:iTunes on the local drive, either. Completely vanished. I'm pretty computer savvy & I can't even figure this out. I had about 2,348 songs on my iTunes/iPod, and now I can pretty much never sync again . . . some PLEASE help me b/c this is literally a worst dream come true. I cared more about my iTunes music than all my ex-girlfriends out together, ha. Again, it's not even just iTunes; it's the entire drive. The clincher is that when I check my disk space it still shows the same as if all the files are still on there. I just cannot find them. And, no, it's not even a matter of things being "hidden" or in Safe Mode or anything.
I even connected to the drive to my PC inside to check for bad sectors using CHKDSK & absolutely nothing changed. Last time that's what saved me . . . I really think the files are still on there. I'm just clueless as to how I can save them--esp. the iTunes files!
. . . {cries} Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!!
If you'd like to answer this for Yahoo! Answers points as well, see this link.