How to Recover Accidentally Deleted Music Files from iPod?

“At the time of managing songs on iPod, I have mistakenly deleted few music files which are very essential. I have searched online for those songs and easily found few of them. But could not get required music files even after searching a lot. Is there any manual way that will help me to regain iPod music files which are accidentally deleted? If not, then let me know possible way to retrieve erased music files from iPod by accident”

iPod is considered as the best storage media to store your favorite music files wherever you go. Different models of iPods are available these days with different size. Even a smaller iPod can store plenty of songs and allows you to listen them for longer duration. In case music files are unintentionally deleted from your iPod’s storage media, there are certain things you can try to get them back.

First of all check your computer to find for accidentally erased music files from iPod. If you had synchronized iPod to your computer’s iTunes Library, copy of songs will be stored in iTunes. So you can resynchronize iPod and restore the songs to iPod. In order to resynchronize, connect your iPod to Mac computer and open iTunes. Choose iPod from the devices and hit on “Sync” option, which will copy all music files to your iPod.

In case you have accidentally removed songs from iPod which you have purchased from iTunes, then you can purchase them from iTunes at free of cost. Open iTunes and hit on “iTunes store” icon provided in it. Simply type name of the song that was unintentionally removed from your iPod and then press upon “Search” option. When required music files gets displayed in the search results, click on it and hit “Download” option. This song will be listed in your iTunes purchase history and you will get that song without paying for it.

However, these two methods fail if you had not synchronized iPod to Mac computer before accidental music file deletion. Therefore the best way to get back iPod music files accidentally deleted is to make use of professional iPod file recovery software on Mac computer.

iPod music file recovery software:

Yodot Mac Photo Recovery is the finest software to recover music files which are accidentally deleted from your iPod. Tough name of this software specifies that it is picture recovery tool, you will be able to get music files, video files, movies, audio recordings, documents and many more files from pen drives, memory cards, external hard drives, Memory Sticks and so on. Along with restoring deleted and lost files, you can retrieve formatted iPod files without waiting for long time. It can successfully restore media files from iPod models such as iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano and iPod Classic on Macintosh computers installed with Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks operating systems. In addition, this application will display each step in Mac finder view so that you may not face difficulties at the time of retrieving your iPod music files which are erased by mistake. This media file recovery software is completely tested and it will not alter any files during recovery process.

Apart from iPod, you may also lose your favourite music tracks from other storage spaces. Like, suppose if you have accidentally erased entire iTunes library and wondering how to get a song back that you deleted from iTunes. But need not to worry untill Yodot is at your help. You can utilize the same software to bring back all your files, which are removed from iTunes.

Procedure to find accidentally deleted music files from iPod:

  • Connect iPod to your Mac computer by using USB cable
  • Download and install Yodot Mac Photo Recovery software on Mac system to which you have connected iPod
  • Run the application and choose the option “Deleted Photo Recovery” to rescue accidentally deleted music files from iPod
  • Choose the drive which indicates iPod and allow it to scan by clicking on “Next”
  • As soon as the scanning process gets completed, you will get a window containing list of recoverable files
  • Select specific music file formats which you want; otherwise click on “Skip” option to automatically select all files
  • Cross check recovered music files using two view types which are ‘File Type View’ and ‘Data View’
  • Preview them for confirmation and finally save recovered music files to a desired location on Mac system hard drive other than iPod

Useful Guidelines:

  • Check music files carefully before you give command to delete them from iPod
  • Keep synchronizing iPod to Mac computer to transfer your files

Other Popular Software

Yodot Photo Recovery (Windows)

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Yodot Mac File Recovery

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