by tilala » Fri May 19, 2006 11:18 am
Hi everybody,
My post is a little long so I'll give the gist of my problem here, and background follows below for anyone needing more information.
I used "removed dead links" last night to do just that, remove DL's, and this morning my library of 30,000+ songs is missing from my external hard drive. The folder is still there, but it's empty.
I think I may've misunderstood just what's supposed to happen when you use the remove dead links function in 'files to edit'...I didn't think I was actually removing files in my library when using RDL, just removing links to files no longer present at the given location (the links were previously moved from/no longer present on C:, moved to/present on external F: drive). Did I make a mistake?
Just for a bit of background, I usually download music files to my desktop, and in that way I can make sure all of my tags are correct and I can make any other modifications I want before adding them to a folder on an external drive which MM monitors using the filemonitor function (yes, I have a Gold membership--and love it).
Well, somehow I wasn't using filemonitor properly because the files that were originally downloaded to my desktop, drive C:, and moved to drive F:, continued to appear as ghost links, or what I thought were dead links, on my C: drive.
After a while these were really adding up, so I decided to try 'remove dead links', and as far as I can tell, 90% of what was removed was in fact the list of greyed-out files on my C: drive, the rest being the handful of songs I had intentionally deleted from my F: drive previously.
This morning when I tried to search for a song on my F: drive, it came up as a dead link itself, which surprised me, so I decided to open up the folder on F: in which it was stored....the folder is empty.
I *had* +30,000 songs in that folder, and only removed ~5,000 dead links.
Also, when I click "properties" under F: I see that "free space" and "capacity" remain unchanged, which makes me think that my library is still intact somewhere.
Any help would be appreciated.
ps...I'm not bouncing off the walls over this because I really do think those files are still around AND I've got back-ups of everything, but still, it'd be nice if a can correct my mistake as painlessly as possible ;^D
Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance for any help...
ken
Hi everybody,
My post is a little long so I'll give the gist of my problem here, and background follows below for anyone needing more information.
I used "removed dead links" last night to do just that, remove DL's, and this morning my library of 30,000+ songs is missing from my external hard drive. The folder is still there, but it's empty.
I think I may've misunderstood just what's supposed to happen when you use the remove dead links function in 'files to edit'...I didn't think I was actually removing files in my library when using RDL, just removing links to files no longer present at the given location (the links were previously moved from/no longer present on C:, moved to/present on external F: drive). Did I make a mistake?
Just for a bit of background, I usually download music files to my desktop, and in that way I can make sure all of my tags are correct and I can make any other modifications I want before adding them to a folder on an external drive which MM monitors using the filemonitor function (yes, I have a Gold membership--and love it).
Well, somehow I wasn't using filemonitor properly because the files that were originally downloaded to my desktop, drive C:, and moved to drive F:, continued to appear as ghost links, or what I thought were dead links, on my C: drive.
After a while these were really adding up, so I decided to try 'remove dead links', and as far as I can tell, 90% of what was removed was in fact the list of greyed-out files on my C: drive, the rest being the handful of songs I had intentionally deleted from my F: drive previously.
This morning when I tried to search for a song on my F: drive, it came up as a dead link itself, which surprised me, so I decided to open up the folder on F: in which it was stored....the folder is empty.
I *had* +30,000 songs in that folder, and only removed ~5,000 dead links.
Also, when I click "properties" under F: I see that "free space" and "capacity" remain unchanged, which makes me think that my library is still intact somewhere.
Any help would be appreciated.
ps...I'm not bouncing off the walls over this because I really do think those files are still around AND I've got back-ups of everything, but still, it'd be nice if a can correct my mistake as painlessly as possible ;^D
Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance for any help...
ken