WD My Book Live 1TB Help

neilcarps

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Dec 30, 2013
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Ok so I very rarely use this drive, but decided to set it up again today. I have it plugged directly into my router and access through my laptop and ipad/iphone apps.

Use it for music and photos. My first question: I can only see the drive in network connections and not as an external drive - is that correct?

Secondly, and much more of an issue - I accidentally deleted my itunes folder whilst removing some other music files. How can I get this file back?! It took me ages to initial load up all of my CDs!!!

Any help greatly appreciated.

Neil
 

popatim

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1: that is correct since you have it attached via the network.

2: hopefully you have not written to the drive as deleted files on network drives bypass the recycle bin. Attach the drive locally (usb/esata) and run file recovery on it. Recuva is decent and free but keep in mind the more you've written to the drive the less chance you have of recovery.
 

neilcarps

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Dec 30, 2013
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Thanks popatim. The drive has very little written to it and I've written nothing to it since. I will try that.