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Mac Broken - Music Lost?

  • 08-02-2010 10:58am
    #1
    Wurly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭


    Hi there,

    About a month ago, water got into my Mac and it's still f*cked. It will turn on but a folder with a question mark appears and it makes this continuous clicking sound. So - it's prob safe to say it's dead.

    The prob is, I never backed up my iTunes purchases onto an external hard drive (yes, I know that was very silly - lesson learned).

    I have logged into iTunes from my other Mac, have asked it to 'search for available downloads' and enabled the sharing function (password protected of course).. But can I not transfer what I have already purchased when I was using the other Mac?

    I can't sync my iPod even cos i'm afraid it will wipe the complete library off it. Is there even a way of transferring what's on my iPod to the Mac? My whole library is on the iPod.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Sounds like your hdd is dead. Easily and cheaply replaced usually. What Mac is it? Try booting from the install disc (hold c on startup), open Disk Utility from the Utilities menu and see if the hard drive is recognised. You should also run a hardware test, also using the install disc, by holding d on startup.

    It's possible the water caused other damage though. I hope you gave it plenty of time to dry out.

    And yes there are apps that will take music off your ipod. I can't think of one off-hand, but I'm sure someone else can recommend one to use.


  • #3
    conor.hogan.2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭conor.hogan.2


    yamipod or senuti


  • #4
    sprinkles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,510 ✭✭✭sprinkles


    If you bought all your music through iTunes you can contact them and they will allow you re-download all you purchased music again.


  • #5
    Wurly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    Thanks for all the replies.

    I managed to solve this prob with the help of this link http://macs.about.com/od/backupsarchives/ss/ipodcopy.htm

    All my music is back now. Hooray.:)


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