When I moved my music onto my new Leopard install, I somehow created duplicates of about half the songs. Removing a few duplicates in iTunes is a breeze; removing thousands is a serious PITA.
Like any good geek, I dove into the command line to script a simple solution. While I was putzing around in the iTunes Music directory I saw some old stuff that I didn’t need in there. I started to clean some things up by hand and that is when it happened.
Somehow, like an idiot, I ran “rm -rf *” from the iTunes Music directory. For the non UNIX-y in the audience, that command is THE one command that should probably never by typed. It permanently deletes everything in the current folder. The only worse command is “rm -rf /”, which I am going to UNIX hell just for typing it on my blog. So, 2 seconds later and my entire music collection had been permanently deleted.
Luckily I have a full backup and have been able to reload my iTunes library. Excuse me while I go listen to some music.
