danilada Posted September 14, 2012 Report Share Posted September 14, 2012 Ok, so recently I have purchased a MacBook Pro (previous had windows). I have a western digital hard drive that holds EVERY-THING and I have had to configure (I believe) the hard drive so I could use it on the Mac. In the process I lost all my photos (that's another problem) however I had about 10,000 songs on my hard drive and they have been wiped (back up some-how didn't work have downloaded some programme's to try remedy this) BUT all my songs are on itunes and play. However I can not locate the song files on my Mac. My question is, does some-one know how I can save the songs back onto the hard drive as I use a hard drive as a master copy of every-thing? Hope that makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted September 14, 2012 Report Share Posted September 14, 2012 pass on the iTunes but photorec will work wonders on recovering the photos (and probably even the music) IF you haven't written data to the drive* * if you have written data to the drive some may still be recoverable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted September 14, 2012 Report Share Posted September 14, 2012 Heaps of people seem to have this happen to them, the problem is mac os doesn't recognize NTFS file system, and when you plug your external HD into it it formats it into fat-32 file system. There is a few programs out there that can recover the photos/files etc but they're built for tech-savvy people and still probably wouldn't be able to recover them all if the HD has been re-formatted properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted September 14, 2012 Report Share Posted September 14, 2012 photorec will recover most files even after a format, as long as it isn't a windows 'full format' It's not too hard to use but you have to follow the instructions, dont know if there is a mac version but there should be as there are linux/unix versions Edit: PhotoRec runs under DOS/Win9x Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 Linux FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD Sun Solaris Mac OS X and can be compiled on almost every Unix system. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danilada Posted September 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2012 Currently running wondershare data recovery, mainly for the photos cause they are most important. Still have 36mins to wait. So far I haven't found what I am looking for. Yes I updated the new configured hard drive to discover photos and music missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 To find where your music is on your Mac from Finder press F and in the search box type in the name of one of your songs - make it something that is not too common or you will get a lot of partial returns, if it shows in the search results click on it once and it will show you the path at the bottom of the window. This works in Leopard and Snow, but I do not have Lion so cannot tell you if it is still the case for that OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sheepsnana Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 now now Fishguy, play nice. IMO, he's right, Mac's are all about marketing and very little product. The ONE THING I will give to macs is that they have superior access to editing software. Format is not configure. Format is wipe everything. I would have thought it would have come up with a warning? "This will erase everything on the disk and cannot be undone"? A master copy should never be formatted. I learnt about formatting harddrives when I was intermediate and wiped my Mum's business harddrive clean. Don't worry, you'll learn fast. I believe if you have transferred everything to itunes, then check your itunes. If they still play, you may have them stored on the Mac. If they don't play, and come up with a little x or !, then they are merely shortcuts to your HDD and the files are gone. Best to try a recovery program, but low quality recovery programs could destroy any chance of getting your files back, or may get you partials (some images with big grey squares where people used to be). Best of luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breakaway Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 On windows in iTunes you can right click on a track and select "Open File Location" and it will open an exporer window and show you where on the filesystem the audio file resides... surely there is a similar function on the mac version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 In iTunes Mac you need to right click the title of the song and select 'Get Info' the file location shows at the bottom of the first window. Generally by default iTunes stores music in the following location: /Users/(your username)/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danilada Posted September 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 On windows in iTunes you can right click on a track and select "Open File Location" and it will open an exporer window and show you where on the filesystem the audio file resides... surely there is a similar function on the mac version? In iTunes Mac you need to right click the title of the song and select 'Get Info' the file location shows at the bottom of the first window. Generally by default iTunes stores music in the following location: /Users/(your username)/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Yes this is exactly what I needed, so my songs were saved on to my mac. :thup: now now Fishguy, play nice. IMO, he's right, Mac's are all about marketing and very little product. The ONE THING I will give to macs is that they have superior access to editing software. Format is not configure. Format is wipe everything. I would have thought it would have come up with a warning? "This will erase everything on the disk and cannot be undone"? A master copy should never be formatted. I learnt about formatting harddrives when I was intermediate and wiped my Mum's business harddrive clean. Don't worry, you'll learn fast. I believe if you have transferred everything to itunes, then check your itunes. If they still play, you may have them stored on the Mac. If they don't play, and come up with a little x or !, then they are merely shortcuts to your HDD and the files are gone. Best to try a recovery program, but low quality recovery programs could destroy any chance of getting your files back, or may get you partials (some images with big grey squares where people used to be). Best of luck. The reason we got the mac was because we have iphones/ipads we wanted to be able to sync them all etc, as long as it has word and safari I am happy. I have learnt about formatting - the hard way. Problem is with six years worth of photos I am kicking myself for it. I saved every-thing that was on the hard drive to the computer because it warned me that it might wipe every-thing. The hard drive would let me take stuff off but needed to be formatted with the mac so I could put stuff on it. However during the copy process my songs and most photos disappeared and then I wiped the hard drive. Have tried a few downloads to recover them but nothing has worked or even found what I am looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 have toy tried photrec, has never let me down even on dud usbkeys/SD cards etc. how long did it take to format the drive? a few secs or an hour? have you written data to the disk after it was formatted? If you were closer I would suggest bringing it around... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wok Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 all I can say is.... STupid APPLE I stay away from it when I can, I won't let the kids get an IPOD, I don't want Itunes on any of my pc's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted September 19, 2012 Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 If she just reformatted the volume to Fat32 or MacOS2 the data should still be recoverable providing she has not overwritten it, Disk Utility also has security erase options - Zero erase and 7 and 35 pass erase, if she selected any of these the data would be hard to recover in the first instance and probably not be recoverable for the last two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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