Thank you for your help and for letting me know that if my songs were lost, I could get them back. That really did make me feel better while I waited for my laptop's return.
It is now back home and my songs were there. But the iTunes program had to be downloaded again. Now, all is well.
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And that is really good advice about the external hard drive. We have one, but everything had not been backed up on it. It is now.
All my songs are on my iPod and my laptop and an external hard drive.
I learned that if we had needed to transfer from the iPod back to the computer, the files would need to be transferred first and then the iTunes program downloaded afterward. If the program is loaded first, when it syncs, all the songs will get wiped out.
(I really hesitated to write the above paragraph. I hope I am saying it right. Mr. Boomer is off to a meeting so I cannot ask him for sure. But as I understand it, the order has something to to do with the program as the master and the iPod as the slave. I could be saying something really dumb or giving wrong advice or even stating the obvious.)
Hawkwind,
I had to laugh about what you said about the guy who was doing all that stuff. I don't know what you meant by "platters" but I instantly thought of that long ago group who sang "Smoke Gets in You Eyes." And I was not sure about the "clean room" part either, but I think it might be a computer term......
But the part about just doing it because he wanted to see if he could, that I understood....... I have always thought that those who are really good with computers are also intuitive about it. I have known a lot of computer people. And it seems to me that there is something in the really good ones that separates them from the basic tech types. I think the outstanding ones have some kind of intuition where computers are concerned. It's a feel. And for them, it is not just a science, it is also an art. (But all of it confuses me. I do not begin to understand how computers do what they do.)
collie 1228,
What you said about our enslavement -- that sure is the truth. And it all happened so fast. We did not know what hit us. Well, I sure didn't. It seems like only yesterday that I thought I needed to get something called
Prodigy.
Boomer
