My laptop got reformatted earlier and all my files got deleted

I have more than 7000 songs on my iPod plus a bunch of movies/videos and it would take me a long time before I could get them all back.

So I just wanna know if there is a way I could get back my songs and videos straight from my iPod.

Please please help me

CopyTrans

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is that safe and easy to use?

I've read somewhere about a program/software called "iDump" although I don't know if I should try it yet.

Do the following for a Vista user:
1) My Computer
2) Click on your iPod
3) In Organize Choose Folder And Search Options
4) Go to the View Tab
5) Check the Show Hidden Files And Folders
6) Go to iPod Control
7) Then folder Music

That's pretty much all I can help you with
To avoid future problems I suggest you invest in an external hard drive .. I got one recently I save everything on it so I don't have to worry about losing anything

You can do this with the other systems too, it's just gonna be a bit different when choosing the hidden options !!

^alright,thanks for your responses

My Computer -> iPod -> iPod_Controls -> All the music files are in the Music folder and you can just transfer them from there.

If you can't see the iPod_Controls folder Tools -> Folder Options -> View -> Show hidden files and folders

Edit: Oh someone beat me to it

**** that ...... use Iphonebrowser...

Yes. It shows you a list of all the songs,artist,albums,genres etc on your ipod and it just asks you to select the destination you would like to copy them to and your done.

I should get that, I'm sick of having to search too find the songs because they're named as ''WJ38' etc

I could have swore when you copy your music from the ipod from My Computer>>, it has stupid filenames like "SR-HSY" and **** like that? I guess that's changed since i last tried it in 06...lol

Download the software Mediamonkey. It looks like iTUNES, but it'll not delete your previous songs if they're deleted on PC. Try it. You can copy paste too songs from your iPOD to PC.

Yeah it is but if you're just copying it all then it's fine because when you put it in iTunes again it has all the details.

so basically,Mediamonkey is gonna be the alternative to itunes?or will it transfer the songs from the iPod to Mediamonkey and then from there,it will transfer it to the iTunes?

If any of those are iTunes purchases, you can just select "Transfer purchases" in iTunes and it will copy over any purchased songs to your iTunes. I don't know what to do about p2p files or album burns/rips.

I recommend a program called SharePod. You can transfer songs from the iPod to the PC, and vice-versa. It's basically an iTunes, it's really great i guarantee you!