Posted by NRen2k5 on 11/16/14 11:34

This old Bob wrote:
> A friend had a Windows 2000 hard drive crash which somehow turned all his
> music files into file fragments (CHK files) . He still had all the music on
> the iPod but when he connected it up, all the files on the iPod were erased.
> I guess the iPod went into paranoid mode and deleted everything thinking he
> didn't have a license(??) I dunno. Anyway, I've helped him recover a few
> hundred MP4 files which were ripped from CD's but he said he had about $150
> in music he bought from iTunes which we couldn't find Is there any hope he
> can just download them again - he paid for them after all.
>
> Thanks

He'll probably have to contact iTMS's support department and give them
the lowdown, and see if they'll let him download the tracks again for free.

Why didn't he back up his tunes after buying them?

- NRen2k5

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