[momomo6789]

copyed a playlist from foobar to a folder it crashed and deleted 2.8k songs

 

[Halftrack]

Whoa.
Before you do anything else, try recovering the songs through programs.

 

[Ham Sandwich]

I wouldn't expect Foobar, or any other program, to lose files due to an aborted or crashed copy operation. The normal procedure when a program moves files is to write the file to the new location before deleting the original. That way if the copy process crashes or is aborted then nothing is lost.

Maybe the files are in limbo in a temp directory somewhere?

Many playlist formats, like M3U, have the song locations hard-coded. If you move the files the playlist will no longer be pointing to the files. The playlist will still be pointing to the old location. Could that be the problem? I don't know if Foobar rewrites the playlist file to point to the new location when it moves files.

 

[ROBSCIX]

That makes no sense at all. How would moving a playlist delete all those music files?
Run a search for the files...if you cannot locate them use a recovery program.

 

[Budley007]

A playlist is only an index pointer. If they were erased, then you were not copying a playlist.

 

[krmathis]

Sorry to hear!
Time to restore from backup then, if they really got deleted that is...

 

[Kees]

OMGOMGOMG(x6789)

But I think it's highly unlikely that the files were actually deleted.

 

[MrGreen]

The only time I've had foobar unintentionally delete a file is when I pressed the delete option in the context menu (thinking that it would remove it from the playlist rather than delete the file).

I mess with foobar a lot (skinning, beta plugins etc) so mine crashes a lot when I am messing around and I've never had it delete anything without me actually telling it to.

So I have high hopes that itll work out.
If you cant be bothered working out what happened maybe a system restore is hte best method (if you have it applying to your music folder)

 

[azncookiecutter]

Lesson of the day: backup, backup, backup.

 

[Bredin]

Quote:

Originally Posted by azncookiecutter /img/forum/go_quote.gif Lesson of the day: backup, backup, backup.

When you get a advice from Timmy, then it's BAD

 

[m1abrams]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ham Sandwich /img/forum/go_quote.gif I wouldn't expect Foobar, or any other program, to lose files due to an aborted or crashed copy operation. The normal procedure when a program moves files is to write the file to the new location before deleting the original. That way if the copy process crashes or is aborted then nothing is lost.

Guess you are not familiar with the "minor" OSX bug

tomkarpik.com » Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard

 

[xnor]

I find that highly unlikely.

Unless you used file operations / tagging files shouldn't even be touched.

 

[momomo6789]

i ended up restoring the files and made a entire copy of all my music .

 

[Ham Sandwich]

Quote:

Originally Posted by momomo6789 /img/forum/go_quote.gif i ended up restoring the files and made a entire copy of all my music .

Ouch! I wonder what happened? Foobar shouldn't lose files under any circumstances. A serious bug if it did.

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by momomo6789 /img/forum/go_quote.gif i ended up restoring the files and made a entire copy of all my music .

Guess you have reported the problem to the developer(s) as well. Sounds like a major bug to me.