(no subject)

[ysobel]

went to the movies today. julie & julia. good movie. made me horribly fucking depressed about what i'm doing with my life.

and then went from there to pick up my laptop. ... which, y'know, cheered me up so much. (not really.)

the good news is that the hard drive was under warranty so it wasn't all that expensive (and I got a bigger hard drive out of the deal). the bad news is that they weren't able to salvage anything whatsoever off the other computer, and while I do have a backup, it's seriously old (I sort of ran out of space; I think I need to have a 'media files' external hard drive separate from my backup ehd) and plus it was on the desk so it might be just as dead.

and if that's true then i've lost ... *flail* not everything. programs can be downloaded -- if I have the registration information -- but, fuck. all of the video files I had (including the full season of merlin, doctor who, torchwood, and several key s3/s4 stargate episodes, blood ties, original bsg). all of the music files (*some* of which are still on my iPod, but you can't upload from iPods) which in some cases can be re-imported but in other cases were downloads or fanmix-type things or Totally Legal No Really downloads or borrowed CDs or CDs that I've since lost. all of my fic and story drafts and notes, including the one origfic story that was theoretically publishable if I ever got up the nerve to send it out. all of the email from the past god knows how many years. all of the dreamhack-related notes and files and instructions. all of the images i'd collected, because of the Pretty or because I wanted to use them as references for art stuff. all of the (free) knitting patterns i'd saved, many of which are no longer available. all of my bookmarks and shortcuts and ...

...

... it's not the end of the world.

if I tell myself that enough, maybe I'll even believe it.

Comments

[invisionary]

There are tools that will pull your files off an iPod. I can give you suggestions if you can tell me if the iPod was formatted as Windows or Mac.

[not_a_sniglet]

Those music files can be salvaged from your iPod. The way I do it, and I'll admit this is a little slow, is to take the iPod, put it in disc mode, show hidden files and folders and then go under driveletter\iPod control\ and there should be a folder marked music. Snag that and throw it on your harddrive. Then you can sort out the files. Beware of the gfur-letter filecodes because they suck.

That works on an iPod formatted with Windows. Not sure about Mac. :( If you have anything you really want musicwise we can try to help.

[jmtorres]

Well, I can bounce back to you the longstanding record of emails betwixt us? *snuggle*

[cesy]

Eeep. I may be able to help with some of the music and/or video, but I guess it's the fic and notes and pictures that hurt most.

[pthalo]

echoing everyone else who says you can pull stuff off your ipod. I'd recommend using winamp for it. You can just drag and drop :)