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§ ita § - Dec 24, 2005 12:25:10 pm PST #6160 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cass - Dec 24, 2005 11:28:43 pm PST #6161 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I have a friend (no, really... if it were me, I would totally cop to it) that had his computer massively lock him out. Apparently when the Dept of Defense secures your computer and you forget the password, you are well and truly frelled. He took it to a sevice and they cracked in enough to give him a new profile and access to everything. Which, okay, good.
But he lost his iTunes playlists. Where does Apple hide that info? I have poked around but have had no luck.
I'm not past the point of telling him to just recreate them, but I'm also a lot curious as to where this voodoo logic is stored. Thus, hivemind pokage.
tommyrot - Dec 25, 2005 5:40:01 am PST #6162 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Since it's the DoD, I assume it's a PC....
Anyway, my home PC is dead, so I should probably just wait until I get to work tomorrow, but... every Windows user gets their own user directory (with subdirectories for music, pictures, etc.). Since this guy has a new user account he's gonna have a new user directory. I'm guessing that's where the iTunes playlist would go. He should look in the old user directory (if he in fact still has access to that directory - he may no longer have the rights).
Or you can just wait until someone who knows what they're talking about to show up.
Jessica - Dec 25, 2005 5:41:25 am PST #6163 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
But he lost his iTunes playlists. Where does Apple hide that info? I have poked around but have had no luck.
Is there a way to re-import them from the iPod, I wonder? (When my old computer died, I was able to get my contacts and calendar back by synching with my PDA.)
tiggy - Dec 25, 2005 6:39:27 am PST #6164 of 10003
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Is there a way to re-import them from the iPod, I wonder?
yes, there is. Ephpod. (the site's down right now though.) i used it to import all of my music from my old computer to the new one using my ipod as the go between.
question. i'm using MyDVD to burn my Farscape eps to dvd and i've gotten up to the 10th episode and it won't add it. it tells me that "MyDVD is unable to use all of the files you selected, either because they are damaged or because they are not supported file types". episode 10 is the exact same file type as the others. what can i do?
le nubian - Dec 25, 2005 11:11:46 pm PST #6165 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ephpod, I think, does not work with the new ipod firmware upgrade.
Cass - Dec 26, 2005 12:45:47 am PST #6166 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
He should look in the old user directory (if he in fact still has access to that directory - he may no longer have the rights).I can get in to the old user name's documents and settings but just never found anything that seemed to bring the old playlists back. I don't know if I just haven't looked in the right spot or if some of his information was well and truly locked or erased with the DoD fussing.
I'm still curious as to where that info is stored and, as I am finally back home, I will poke at my computer tomorrow to see if I can find out where it is on a machine with actual working playlists on it. Reverse engineering...
Is there a way to re-import them from the iPod, I wonder?This would work. But his iPod died while he was still overseas and he had a replacement, all emptified.
Maybe it's just a government conspiracy.
Ooh, evil stuttering post number...
tiggy - Dec 26, 2005 6:54:33 am PST #6167 of 10003
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
ephpod, I think, does not work with the new ipod firmware upgrade.
hmmm...i don't know. i used it with the newest update of iTunes.
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2005 7:00:07 am PST #6168 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
They're not the same things.
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2005 7:07:04 am PST #6169 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, in the default iTunes instalation on XP, the playlist files are
iTunes Music Library.xml
iTunes Library.itl
(OK, I'm not sure what that second one is.) They reside in My Documents/My Music/iTunes, if you're logged in as the correct user. Actually, they really reside in C:Documents and Settings/userid/My Documents/My Musici/Tunes, where 'userid' is the name of the user acount that iTunes was installed under.
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