Where I've Been

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States That Johanna Has Visited (or at least driven through on the way to someplace else):



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I'm having some iTunes trouble. Anyone out there with an iPod that can make sense of this? Actually, I don't know that it has anything to do with my iPod/iTunes. I think it might be a problem with my external hard drive. I bought a Maxtor 160GB external drive before I moved back to St. Louis. It seemed like a good way to collect and back up files from several different computers and make it easier to transfer things whenever I get a new computer. However, instead of using it strictly to back everything up, it is the primary residence for all of my music, pictures, and other personal files. Last week, I hooked up the hard drive to my parents' computer so I could copy a bunch of my brother's music files for my own use. I hooked it back up to my own computer, and now when I try to access my music files through iTunes I get the following message:

Request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

So after getting that message, I went through My Computer, to my G drive (external drive), to my iTunes folder. When I open it up there is nothing there! When I first saw that, I almost wanted to cry. That's almost 6,000 separate audio files that seem to be missing. The only bright spot (if it can be called that) is that the 20+ GB of space that all of those files take up still seems to be used. So are they just hidden? Can they be recovered?