computer help required - please!

[vespaboy]

My pc has recently been showing that the disc is full so my daughter was deleting unwanted programmes from it.
Now my itunes has dissapeared along with its contents of 5000+ songs.
System restore will not work due to lack of disc space and itunes faults when trying to load.
My daughter seems to think that 'quicktime' has something to do with it.
Please help me backdate my pc so everything is normal again.
Thanks Thanks Thanks

[ChuckFickens]

are the songs still on the computer, they will be in my documents/music/itunes/itunes music

if they are then just download and reinstall itunes and then import that folder back into it

if the songs are not there.... oh dear.. sorry!!

[ACtheTROLL]

have you checked the recycle bin?

if not chuck's idea ... or in the bin ....
you could try this
http://www.free-av.com/en/tools/10/avira_unera se_personal.html

[dabees]

For future reference, don't remove Quicktime if you need Itunes. They come as a package and you can't have one without the other.

[Postdog]

5000 plus songs would surely report a "content too big for recycle bin" report, with the option of permanently deleting yes or no. If yes was selected, you have lost them.

I know it it is (maybe) too late here, but it is really worth investing in a separate hard drive to store precious files. My music collection is about 30,000 tracks, plus photos and stuff, and all are backed up just in case anything happens.

[ChuckFickens]

blooody hell postdog... I thought I had a lot of music with about 12'000 tracks... I bow down to you.. 30'000 is an impressive music collection!!

[ACtheTROLL]

chuck that's not so impressive ... 30,000 songs ...
90,000 minutes 1500 hours ... listening for 8 hours a day
that's only 6 months worth .....
bl**dy hell ... when you think about it - that IS impressive !!....

[Postdog]

Yeah, but to be honest, a lot of that is stuff I don't - and probably never will - listen to. I have a hard core of maybe 5,000 tracks that are favourites for one reason or another, and that is a collection built up over the last ten years or so.

[Postdog]

OK, the last few comments got me curious. My preferred music player can tell me the disc space and time of my library. There are no duplicates, but there are different versions of some tracks. The space just for music is 80. 2gb, and playing each track just once would be non stop for 84 days.

[Ethel]

I quite miss the old days - browsing the lps in the shop, admiring the artwork and sometimes very clever album sleeves with all sorts of concertina trickery and gizmos going on inside.

Treasuring the very feel of that album sleeve almost as much as the music on the lp - the hours organising the collection - alphabetical, artist and title, within the genre.

Nothing would part me from my mp3 though. :)

Anyway - I am sure all your music is still on your hard drive. As already suggested - Start, search, tick 'music' and type a track you know should be there.

Bet it works.