Don't Be Stupid Like Me

[spicedogs]

Don't ever buy this product to eliminate duplicates from your iTunes:

MarkelSoft Dupe Eliminator for iTunes

I did. Now all my things that I had on iTunes (even the ones we recovered this weekend) are gone forever.

Comments

[boheme06.livejournal.com]

Are they still in the music folder or recycle/trash?

[spicedogs.livejournal.com]

They are gone. They were physically deleted.

[xgirl30]

Do you know if the files were shredded or over written or just deleted? If they were just deleted a file recovery service may be able to restore some of them.

I would definitely give that program manufacturer a piece of my mind if something like that happened to me.

[spicedogs.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't a file recovery service cost a lot of money?

[xgirl30]

It might. It depends on the service and how much they can recover. (It also depends on what the files are worth to you.)The size of the drive may make a difference too. My mom paid around $30 to get some of her writing from a corrupted disk.(she now backs it up on a flash drive) I'm sure a whole hard drive would cost more. (The services we checked out also charge by how much they can recover.)

It wouldn't hurt to do some checking around.

[spicedogs.livejournal.com]

We are talking about 225 GB. Could you send me an e-mail about possible vendors?

Thanks.

[xgirl30]

That's a lot.
I'll have to do some checking and see if my mom has the names of the companies she contacted written down. I'll probably have some information I can e-mail you this weekend.

[ben-munchkin.livejournal.com]

oh no hun! im sorry. meh stupid thing whys it done that?

[spicedogs.livejournal.com]

Stupid thing was supposed to remove duplicates from iTunes only. Instead it deleted them from my hard drive as well. *sigh*

[polvodestrella.livejournal.com]

This really sucks! I'm sorry Edith :(

[spicedogs.livejournal.com]

It does. *sigh*

[katje0711.livejournal.com]

They'd certainly receive a very nasty letter from me!

[katelove12.livejournal.com]

OMFG. I am very sorry. Worthless piece of shit, what a crappy program.