Accidentally erased all songs off of video IPod

Ok so my situation is a little different than everyone else’s. I have a video IPod From years ago. I recently was going through my things and found that it actually still works. I was very excited and figured I would try and remove all my music on it onto my computer and then onto my iPhone. I had over 1,000 songs on there.


I have a new computer that my old iPod had never been plugged into (my old one I used it with I got rid of years ago) and I did not have iTunes on my new computer. Literally the only places that these songs were stored was on my iPod. I downloaded iTunes and plugged my iPod in. It still worked and it then showed all of my songs on my iPod in ITunes. Please note, none of these were synced to my iTunes library or iCloud. I was listening to a few songs with my iPod plugged into my computer and going through my list. I was going to start deleting some songs that I don’t listen to much anymore and as I went to delete one, I don’t know what I did, but it deleted EVERY SONG! I literally clicked on the song I wanted to delete in my computer and it deleted my entire iPod. I don’t know what in the world I did but is it possible for me to get these back? I have tried a million things. Again, these songs were on an old iPod and never have been uploaded into the new iTunes library I just downloaded, any ios other iOS device or iCloud. I was getting ready to do all of this when I accidentally did this. I checked my recycle bin and tried to look at hidden files but I cannot find anything. My iPod is wiped clean and when I plug it into the computer and my device pops up on there it shows I have barely any space being used. I don’t know what to do and am so mad at myself! Is there any way I can get these songs back?

Posted on Jul 21, 2018 5:33 AM

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Posted on Jul 22, 2018 6:13 AM

Sounds good. With Recuva I'd be recommending the Enable Deep Scan option. Yes, you ought to be able to choose where the recovered data goes. Typically media files recovered from an iPod will have random 4 letter file names and might be marked as hidden. See Recover media from an iPod for advice on how to put that media into an iTunes library and get it reorganised more sensibly. See also Make a split library portable for advice on organizing your library on an external drive.


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Jul 22, 2018 6:13 AM in response to Sappie1422

Sounds good. With Recuva I'd be recommending the Enable Deep Scan option. Yes, you ought to be able to choose where the recovered data goes. Typically media files recovered from an iPod will have random 4 letter file names and might be marked as hidden. See Recover media from an iPod for advice on how to put that media into an iTunes library and get it reorganised more sensibly. See also Make a split library portable for advice on organizing your library on an external drive.


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Jul 22, 2018 5:00 AM in response to turingtest2

I am downloading that software as we speak. It Asked me which folder to choose to scan to recover and I selected iTunes. I would assume that would be correct. It looks like it is downloading a ton of stuff that it found. Once it does, how do I find what is actually my music to upload onto a Zip drive? It sorts it into audio files, video files, pictures etc, and while I am assuming the music would be under audio, how do I know if it is music or not once it is done? Do I just put it on the Zip drive and then try and play it before putting it back into iTunes?

Jul 22, 2018 5:44 AM in response to turingtest2

I left it up and running because it was about done. I came back to my computer and all of a sudden it’s showing a bunch of music files and they are my music!!!!! You are seriously a lifesaver! Once this is completely done (it looked like it was before because the bar always at the end but apparently not and the bar just jumped back down) I am going to copy all of this onto my terabyte. Do I just click all of the music and hit recover and it will allow me where to recover it to?

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