On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 11:02 AM, Neil wrote:
> My problem: I opened iTunes yesterday (version 2.0) as I do every day.
> However, when I double-clicked to listen to a song in one of my
> playlists,
> the song, which normally ran about 4 minutes was reduced to 21
> seconds. I
> proceeded to try this on about four more songs and it reduced all of
> them by
> about 9/10.
>
> I checked the actual folder where the music is stored and, indeed, the
> songs' files had been reduced to about 450 to 900k (depending on the
> original length of the song) instead of the typical 3 to 6 MB.
> ::..snip..::
> Has anyone ever heard of this? Any suggestions on what I can do? I
> have 1.27
> gig of free hard drive space. I have not rebuilt my desktop in many
> months.
> I also have not defragmented with Norton my machine in many months.
i'm not aware of any viruses that would do anything like this. i would
actually bet on directory structure errors - specifically, something
like a PEOF error (or series of PEOF errors) or perhaps some keys out
of order.
i would suggest picking up a copy of DiskWarrior and running that. If
it's a PEOF error ("Physical end-of-file", kbase #16231
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=16231>), the damage may
already be done and the data is probably already be permanently lost.
If it's keys out-of-order, there's the same possibility, but it's not
as certain as PEOF.
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