How to restore personal files after moving to them?
I moved some files yesterday about my music. Today, I discovered that by moving these files, I had deleted all the music in my iTunes library and all the information that goes along with these songs (number of plays, last played date, playlists, etc.). I'd really only this information back and I wonder if there is a way to restore my personal files to ensure that yesterday never happened. Thanks for the help and please resopnd ASAP!
Unfortunately, the system restore does not work on data files (intentionally) and there is no program that does what you want for the data. You can probably restore files to their original location and import the information into iTunes (as if it has been added), but I don't know if it will be kept for other information (and I assume that you have already tried it and that's why you're here).
If you have Vista Business, Vista Ultimate or Vista Enterprise, you can be lucky. They have so-called saves shadow copies, which are deleted or modified files that can be recovered in case changes/deletions made by mistake. http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/Windows-Vista/features/shadow-copy.aspx more information about how to use this feature to: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/howdoi/?p=145.
If you have Vista Basic or Premium of Vista, shadow copies is not available; However, there is an alternative that is free and the shadow copies feature called Shadow Explorer. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/recover-files-with-shadow-copies-on-any-version-of-windows-vista/. Although it will not help you this time, it could very well save you in case this happens again.
I'm sorry, that we cannot help you with this problem. Restore personal files is a relatively simple task, but you also want to rebuild the iTunes database (whose part was removed when the files have been moved because the new location had no place to store/save this information) and it's an entirely different matter.
I hope that the shadow helps if you have this version of Vista.
Good luck!
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