Guess What I Just Did

danaekitty · Feb 11th, 2008, 05:00 PM

I was trying to manually import album art into my itunes via dvd, as per the amazing advice of certain forum members. When I had the dvd's contents in the finder, I would search and select all the jpgs on the disc, then drag them to a new folder on the desktop. I had finished doing this to all but one of my ten Mp3 dvds, and when I had the last one in the finder, I selected all, then dragged. Unfortunately, I had accidentally selected search his imac instead of search dvd, so I dragged EVERY SINGLE IMAGE FROM MY WHOLE HARD DRIVE into one little folder on my desktop entitled DVD Album Art.

I am SO MAD at myself. By the time I realized what I'd done, I was past the point of undo, and I have no idea how to set up Time Machine, so unless I'm wrong, and there's another SECRET way to go back to a previous backup, I'm pretty much screwed. Applecare had me on hold for 40 minutes to confirm this. Yay.

Just so you're clear on how upset I really was, I had 3,700 image files to sort through and re-organize. All my photography work, all Photoshop stock photos and image samples, all system images...everything.

Sigh.

guytoronto · Feb 11th, 2008, 05:15 PM

I'm sure you'll look back on this one day and laugh.

CubaMark · Feb 11th, 2008, 07:22 PM

Hm. I don't suppose COMMAND-Z (UNDO) would have worked immediately afterward?

Adrian. · Feb 11th, 2008, 07:25 PM

Wow....that really sucks. And you didn't have time machine hooked up eh?

VictorDTarsus · Feb 11th, 2008, 08:47 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by Adrian.
	Wow....that really sucks. And you didn't have time machine hooked up eh?

I should have, unless you continue to do things with the Finder like delete images or move files, the Undo will be useless after that. Makes you wish Apple included multiple-level Undo within the actual Finder Application itself. This would surely help those who either can't use Time Machine or do not want to use it(like my self).

madgunde · Feb 11th, 2008, 10:49 PM

I'm trying to decide whether making light of danaekitty's unfortunate situation would be appropriate or not, but ah what the heck.

Maybe this will help cheer you up. Then again, maybe not. Just note that it's meant to be funny, not insulting...

danaekitty, you just got 0wned!

;-)

danaekitty · Feb 12th, 2008, 08:26 AM

HAHAHA!
Yeah, I got owned, all right. And it wasn't pretty.

chas_m · Feb 12th, 2008, 06:16 PM

I must be missing something. If you have Time Machine activated, just go "back in time" to before you did this.

If you don't have Time Machine, just go back to your most recent backup (because you DO have backups, riiiiight?) and copy back the relevant folders.

danaekitty · Feb 12th, 2008, 08:08 PM

No, time machine is not hooked up - I have no idea how to set it up, when it asks me to select a disk to save backups to there's no disk listed.
Also, I do not do manual backups. I'm pretty new to mac, and have no clue how, unless it does it automatically by itself periodically.

Does it?

Black · Feb 12th, 2008, 08:31 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by danaekitty
	No, time machine is not hooked up - I have no idea how to set it up, when it asks me to select a disk to save backups to there's no disk listed. Also, I do not do manual backups. I'm pretty new to mac, and have no clue how, unless it does it automatically by itself periodically. Does it?

Buy an external harddrive and then setup time machine to use that external hard drive as a backup drive to store all of your crap. Time machine can be set to save your backup for X number of days etc.