gamehead200 Posted August 19, 2005 Posted August 19, 2005 OK, this is really weird...I reformatted my computer last night and reinstalled everything, except I hadn't copied any of my songs back to my main drive... I DID have my iTunes playlists backed up somewhere, including my smart playlists that I wrote down the settings to (which iTunes could not have understood)...Anywayz, I copied back all my music back to the same place and opened up iTunes, and to my surprise, EVERYTHING was there, including my playlists and smart playlists...THIS IS FREAKY!! I do not understand how this could have happened!! I am 100% sure that I formatted my drive, since I saw the little bar go from 0% to 100% while formatting NTFS (not quick)...Also, I did not tell iTunes to search for music on my drive... And when I plugged in my iPod to be updated, it didn't even ask me if I wanted to make this my main library (which it SHOULD do when you use a "different" computer)... Any ideas how this could have happened?
Zxian Posted August 19, 2005 Posted August 19, 2005 Kinda creepy...And the first time that you had installed iTunes, you had to tell it where to look for your music, right?
gamehead200 Posted August 19, 2005 Author Posted August 19, 2005 Kinda creepy...And the first time that you had installed iTunes, you had to tell it where to look for your music, right?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Nope, when I checked to see where it was supposed to store music, it was storing it in the iTunes Music Folder, even though all my music was in C:\Other\MP3s... This kind of creeps me out, because it makes no sense!
Zxian Posted August 19, 2005 Posted August 19, 2005 Maybe Apple is using "Big Brother" tactics now... storing the location of your music on their servers, and then updating your software when you re-install it...
Jeremy Posted August 20, 2005 Posted August 20, 2005 Pretty cool how strangely unexplained things happen, eh?
Wolf_Demon Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 when hard drives are reformatted, sometimes everything isn't erased.
Zxian Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 @Wolf_Demon - That still wouldn't explain how iTunes would be able to "remember" the settings. When the drive is formatted, a new MFT is created. Without special tools, you would not be able to access the old files.
HybridShadow Posted August 22, 2005 Posted August 22, 2005 iTunes is spying on you, sending your stats to their servers and then looks around your HDD for music and redownloads its own settings from www.apple.com/itunes/spylogs.htmlIts simple- END SARCASM It is freaky how it remembered but i guess if it worked in advantage i wouldnt complain and i also would rely on it
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