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Mr. T wrote:

Colticus wrote:

ArtemisG3 wrote:

Open the terminal and paste this:

mv ~/.Music ~/Music

The Music folder wasn't actually deleted, just renamed to be invisible.

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The script definately didn't delete your music but ClamXAV might've!  Whatever you do, don't sync your iPod, as you might need to recover the music from it (which can be done).  It's possible that ClamXAV archived your music somewhere on your hard drive, but don't assume anything since I'm not sure how the program works (nor do I own it).

type "ls -al" (w/o the quotes) and post what you see.  Also, if you happen to remember how much free HD space you had before, check to see if it's the same now.  If it's still about the same, then ClamXAV probably archived your music somewhere on your hard drive.

Well the hdd space has stayed the same.....

It takes me to my music folder and itunes is in there but when I open it nothing is in it.

I need an example of one person who has been infected by this malware.

mahakali wrote:

Try checking inside the iTunes folder in your Library folder. Or try to do Finder search for mp3 or aac (or whatever format you have in your iTunes).

Nothing shows up.

First, select the iTunes folder inside your Music folder and choose get info, and see how big the folder is.  If it's hundreads/thousands of MB then your music is probably in there but got hidden somehow.  Secondly, if you go to your home folder in the Finder, do you see your Music folder there?  One time, my desktop folder disappeared and I had to go through some trouble to get it back, but all my stuff was there.

Worst case scenario, there are ways of recovering the music from your iPod (again, don't sync it yet!) assuming you have an iPod.  It can be done for free from the Terminal, or there are user-friendly GUI apps that will do the same thing but not for free.

If you're running Tiger, type (or copy-paste) this in your spotlight search: kind:music and hit enter.

More than 4000 files, all of them garageband sounds? Did you ever click on one of them and see at the bottom of the window what the location is?

Really, man, once in a while try to learn how to use your machine.

Last edited by mahakali (2006-02-17 9:22 pm)

mahakali wrote:

More than 4000 files, all of them garageband sounds? Did you ever click on one of them and see at the bottom of the window what the location is?

Really, man, once in a while try to learn how to use your machine.

Ever one of them is a garageband sound.

Hey I am going to be getting my computer within the month and I was going to use ichat/AIM. But now reading about this worm gettting through from the ichat app, I was wondering what I should do if anything to avoid getting leap worm and should I download Clamxav or will that be a waste of space? Originally, I was told that I wouldn't need anti virus software as Macs weren't targeted.

Last edited by Macrules0208 (2006-02-17 10:48 pm)

So far it sounds like the music is there, but it's somewhere else on your HD, since it's still taking up disk space.  Without knowing how ClamXAV works, I can't say where it is or if it's in a special ClamXAV archive format or whatever, but if you have an iPod with your music on it, we can extract it!

There's only one problem, which might not actually be a problem, but I'll explain it anyway.  Ordinarily if your iPod is set to auto-sync (which is the default) and there are no songs in your library, your iPod will get erased!  However, if the library files are completely gone (at least as far as iTunes is concerned) then iTunes will create a new library different from the previous one, and will ASK you if you want to sync with this new library - in theory.  At this point, you would click no, and then go to the preferences to turn off auto-sync and enable disk usage (which we need to do to get the files off).  Fortunately there's a way to avoid the issue (at least I think so).  If you boot your iPod into disk mode by holding down a certain combination of buttons on the iPod (different models of iPods require a different combination) you should be able to then plug it into your computer and use it as a regular external hard drive.  In either case, I'm not 100% sure that iTunes won't open up and try to auto-sync anyway, so the choice is yours.

Whichever path you choose, you should ultimately have manged to get your iPod mounted on the desktop as a disk.  At this point you would open a terminal window and enter the following command:

cp -R -v /Volumes/"name of iPod with quotes"/iPod_Control/iTunes Desktop/iPodMusic/

which will copy all your music to the desktop into a folder called iPodMusic (Don't bother looking in this folder as all you'll see are a bunch of Fxx folders with arcane filenames).  At this point I recommend you burn this folder to one or more DVDs as a backup.  Then just drag this folder onto the iTunes icon and your music should hopefully reappear (you might loose playlists and ratings and such).

Last edited by Mr. T (2006-02-17 10:56 pm)

Mr. T wrote:

So far it sounds like the music is there, but it's somewhere else on your HD, since it's still taking up disk space.  Without knowing how ClamXAV works, I can't say where it is or if it's in a special ClamXAV archive format or whatever, but if you have an iPod with your music on it, we can extract it!

There's only one problem, which might not actually be a problem, but I'll explain it anyway.  Ordinarily if your iPod is set to auto-sync (which is the default) and there are no songs in your library, your iPod will get erased!  However, if the library files are completely gone (at least as far as iTunes is concerned) then iTunes will create a new library different from the previous one, and will ASK you if you want to sync with this new library - in theory.  At this point, you would click no, and then go to the preferences to turn off auto-sync and enable disk usage (which we need to do to get the files off).  Fortunately there's a way to avoid the issue (at least I think so).  If you boot your iPod into disk mode by holding down a certain combination of buttons on the iPod (different models of iPods require a different combination) you should be able to then plug it into your computer and use it as a regular external hard drive.  In either case, I'm not 100% sure that iTunes won't open up and try to auto-sync anyway, so the choice is yours.

Whichever path you choose, you should ultimately have manged to get your iPod mounted on the desktop as a disk.  At this point you would open a terminal window and enter the following command:

cp -R -v /Volumes/"name of iPod with quotes"/iPod_Control/iTunes Desktop/iPodMusic/

which will copy all your music to the desktop into a folder called iPodMusic (Don't bother looking in this folder as all you'll see are a bunch of Fxx folders with arcane filenames).  At this point I recommend you burn this folder to one or more DVDs as a backup.  Then just drag this folder onto the iTunes icon and your music should hopefully reappear (you might loose playlists and ratings and such).

ipod shuffle with no songs on it.

Macrules0208 wrote:

ConnertheCat wrote:

Macrules0208 wrote:

Hey I am going to be getting my computer within the month and I was going to use ichat/AIM. But now reading about this worm gettting through from the ichat app, I was wondering what I should do if anything to avoid getting leap worm and should I download Clamxav or will that be a waste of space? Originally, I was told that I wouldn't need anti virus software as Macs weren't targeted.

iChat isn't "targeted" persay.  Anyhow, unless you expect to be getting and downloading programs that ask for your admin password, I think you'll be fine.

Rule of thumb - Don't run files that you don't know what they are.

I'm a student and I bought it for Homework, Internet Browsing, Music, and IM using ichat.

Again, it will only ask you for your admin password if you aren't opening it as an admin user. So if you are like most of the OS X users out there, this thing will install upon you opening the "image." So there are two things. Yes, don't open random things for no real reason. Second is to not use an admin user as your primary (everyday) user.

Yeah, it's not there anymore.  My best guess is it's in some special kind of ClamXAV Quarantine archive, since your searches for *.m4a files were unsuccessful.