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Thread ID: 49838 2004-10-02 10:38:00 Help, MP3s disappeared! Vince (406) Press F1
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277538 2004-10-02 10:38:00 Putting my new additional HD to use, I copied - not moved - my MP3s ( a lot of them) to a partition on the new drive and renamed the old folder 'My Music Old'. I then uninstalled Music Match Jukebox and reinstalled it, also to the new drive. Now all my MP3s have disappeared! The folders are where they should be. The new ones and the old ones; one for every CD, but they are empty.
The MP3s are not visible in Explorer. Windows Search can't find them, neither can Norton Unerase Wizard. Music Match Jukebox cant find them either. What can I do? What happened? Vince
Vince (406)
277539 2004-10-02 10:58:00 Try restoration (www.webattack.com)
and see if that finds them.
hth
johnboy (217)
277540 2004-10-02 11:31:00 Have you checked the folder properties on the new partition? Are they empty or does properties show they have something in them? 45South (4769)
277541 2004-10-02 11:45:00 Did u PASTE them tho?? Copying wont do much without pasting them to the destination folder. If not and u reboot, they'll most probably disappear when u reboot. Spacemannz (808)
277542 2004-10-02 11:49:00 No this would only happen if u cut then forgot to paste. You sure you didn't use cut and not copy?? Spacemannz (808)
277543 2004-10-02 11:50:00 It woud appear that Music Match presumed ownership of the files and deleted them as part of the uninstall process.

If it was me i would be making a hasty visit to their site and checking for a faq and suport...
metla (154)
277544 2004-10-02 12:06:00 According to the Musicmatch site.

Deleting or uninstalling Musicmatch Jukebox does not delete the songs

The music files you have recorded or downloaded that are displayed in the Music Library are stored separately from the Music Library on your hard disk. The entries in the Music Library are simply links to the actual music files. Since this is the case, uninstalling Musicmatch Jukebox or deleting the Music Library file will not delete the songs you have recorded or downloaded.
Spacemannz (808)
277545 2004-10-02 12:51:00 Maybe MS in it's infinite presumption decided that you were copying copyrighted material, so it erased them all as a salutary lesson :O R2x1 (4628)
277546 2004-10-02 13:55:00 > Try
> re
> toration (www.webattack.com)
> and see if that finds them.
> hth

That did the trick, thanks johnboy. Vince
Vince (406)
277547 2004-10-02 14:02:00 > No this would only happen if u cut then forgot to
> paste. You sure you didn't use cut and not copy??

I right clicked, dragged and selected 'Copy Here'.
I am really interested to know what went wrong, so I don't do it again. Vince
Vince (406)
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