Files getting munched on a network drive

[thepharcyde]

I have a HTPC with a 80GB (Vista), 120GB IDE for music, and 500GB Sata Movies.

Problem being, music albums are randomly disappearing. Just lost my Smashinh Pumpkins double CD and my CD's are scratched as I have had it for around 10 years or so!

I do not understand. I think it is something to do with Itunes, where when I delete the albums off my Ipod, it maybe deleting it from the PC too, because Itunes SUCKS! Fortunately, I have now got my hands on a 4GB card for my N95, and the sync on media player is a doddle.

I have just used freeundelete software, and found 4GB of MP3 files, most of which could not be recovered etc, so to say I am peed is an understatement.

Is there anyway to make my music drive read/write only, and not being able to delete. Or can I create a Recycle bin for this drive, like the one on my desktop.

Cheers

 

[theforce]

The music files being deleted can happen with many music players. Usually there should be an option that states that when you delete a certain song or album from the library it's also deleted from the pc aswell. You should go in the options and uncheck it.
I would be totally ****** off to find a software deleting stuff i deleted from the library
About the question about creating a recycly bin for a specific drive... i think that the recycle bin is there for all the hard disks you have on a system. Right-click on your recycle bin and you should be able to allocate a specific amount of space of that drive for the recycle bin and that would make files being deleted from that hard disk to go there unless you have the option for the files to be deleted automatically and not go into the recycle bin when you delete them.
Hope this helps.

 

[HangTime]

One of the reasons I never use a library on my own PC Always worried about having to check stuff like that. It was hard enough getting some of my mp3s onto my partner's ipod, just copying them over didn't work.

 

[bledd]

always give yourself read-only permissions to media on a network drive, when you want to add media to it, login remotely on that network drive and copy files from there