What would you do? Long but need advice

[Nzoner]

Computer got a virus so I get ahold of a local computer company and they look at it and tell me they can help etc.NOW I ask the geek up front(this same company lost $50 of my music 3 years ago when they transferred my stuff to new computer and never would own up to it) can you save my music?

I have 5500+ tunes and I'm explaining to the geek that I need to know I can trust them.He ASSURES me that it will be no problem.So I get my computer back Tuesday and what do you know 1 music folder that had all of my music has been turned into 3 and after searching I find I'm missing my entire Queen collection about 150 songs as well as other artists.

I take computer back and trying to be as polite as possible ask wtf happened.Geek tells me he transferred everything to one of their puters wiped mine and then reloaded mine and something must've happened,no shit I think.

So they have it one more day and when I pick up geek tells me he found a folder with a lot of Queen etc in it and I'm good to go.So I get home and start looking and now I have like 6 folders with music but still missing some artists and I've yet to really get into knowing just how much music I may be missing because shit is filed here and there and everywhere but when doing a full music search from some of the bands I'm seeing that I now have 2 and 3 copies of quite a few songs.

Okay I'm not a computer geek but I'd like someone to explain to me how all my music was in one folder and now it's focking everywhere,oh and that $50 worth of music the company didn't take responsibility for,I found 12 of the songs during my search but they're in an OMA format and cannot be recognized my WMP,so that music was there all along but lost to me during the transfer 3 years ago.

Thanks,if you made it this far,but I could use some advice,do I just write this off as me being the dumbass or do I make yet another trip and talk to the owner and see if anything else can be done?And I'm sorry I don't mean to rude in using the word geek but this guy that worked on my puter is the pure definition of the word and has me wondering if he's possibly too smart for his own good thus thinking he could do anything and giving me assurances he never should have.

[Buck]

Did you sign a contract? I would read the fine print first to see if they say they cant be held responsible for that kind of stuff.

[Hootie]

I'm not sure why you just don't buy a flash drive and store all of your music on it as a backup?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820609355

[Scorp]

Go in with a shotgun, I am sure they will come to a resolve fairly quickly.

[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by MediaCenterJunkie

Did you sign a contract? I would read the fine print first to see if they say they cant be held responsible for that kind of stuff.

No contracts although now I'm wishing there had been.

[wutamess]

Wanna know how I know you're gay?
You're mad you're missing a band called "Queen" from your hard drive.

[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by Hootie

I'm not sure why you just don't buy a flash drive and store all of your music on it as a backup?

Funny thing,I'd just purchased one before getting the virus and hadn't gotten around to doing it yet

[Iowanian]

Portable hard drive for your music, stop downloading pRon from sketchy sites.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Nzoner

Funny thing,I'd just purchased one before getting the virus and hadn't gotten around to doing it yet

That sucks.

Fortunately I don't have any convictions so I just download all of the music I want for free using Frostwire.

[htismaqe]

First of all, let's establish that this music was obtained legally, correct?

Because if it wasn't, my advice would be to leave it all alone.

I would think you have a case to make with the owner that he owes you a refund, up to the purchase price of the music you lost. It's one thing for them to lose files - that can happen during transfer and files do get corrupted.

The fact they took it from one folder to several is another issue and one that is likely due to incompetence. The file format conversion issue then takes that incompetence to an ENTIRELY new level.

[Reaper16]

Tough break. I have all of my digital music on my huge iPod, on a PC, backed up on a big external hard drive, and backed up again on a second, larger external hard drive.

[Buehler445]

Buy an external harddrive and back up your pc regularly mocing forward.
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[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

First of all, let's establish that this music was obtained legally, correct?

Because if it wasn't, my advice would be to leave it all alone.

I would think you have a case to make with the owner that he owes you a refund, up to the purchase price of the music you lost. It's one thing for them to lose files - that can happen during transfer and files do get corrupted.

The fact they took it from one folder to several is another issue and one that is likely due to incompetence. The file format conversion issue then takes that incompetence to an ENTIRELY new level.

Music was purchased legally,and not only am I feeling like a refund of lost music would be good I'm also focking pissed that I paid $130 for the shit work.

[Hootie]

Skeet!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136321

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Nzoner

Music was purchased legally,and not only am I feeling like a refund of lost music would be good I'm also focking pissed that I paid $130 for the shit work.

Interesting.

Do you use internet explorer?

If so, I'd stop.