IPod is a portable storage device like USB flash drives or external hard drives. You can copy and move any type of files from your iPod to computer. You need to configure your iPod as a storage disk to access files from your iPod’s flash memory or hard disk. Once you configured your iPod for disk use, it appears as a removable drive in My Computer. Now, you can easily transfer all types of files from your computer to iPod or from iPod to computer. After transferring all files you cannot disconnect or remove it directly from your computer even when it is done synchronizing with iTunes. You need to use eject iPod button in the iTunes Window to manually disconnect your iPod from the computer. If you remove abruptly then you may encounter data loss problems. IPods are able to store large amount of files like audio files, video files, image files etc. Actually, iPod’s hard disk does not show total amount of hard disk space which has been written over iPod. Because, iPod’s Operating system and file system uses some amount of storage space i.e. few megabytes. Sometimes, you may accidentally delete files stored on your iPod resulting in data loss. Now, the general question arises like How to recover deleted iPod files? The simple way is you need to use relevant iPod recovery tool to recover deleted files from iPod.
Data loss may also occur when you accidentally delete a file from iTunes. iTunes is free media player application, which is used to play and organize digital audio and video on your system. If this iTunes get corrupted then it won’t allow you to access the files from iTunes resulting in loss of files. Sometimes, accidentally ejecting iPod from your computer during synchronization may also result in loss of files. To access those files, you need to restore your iPod. But, restoring deletes all files stored on iTunes resulting in data loss.
Therefore, before restoring iPod, take backup of complete data stored on your iPod. Generally, when you delete files on an iPod, they are not permanently deleted. Instead, they are just marked as deleted. When you delete the files, they are moved to .Trashes folder of iPod. If you accidentally deleted or emptied .Trashes folder then they are moved to .Trashes\501 folder, and seems like they are permanently deleted because they cannot be viewed normally. But, these files can still be recovered using relevant third party recovery tool.
Remo Recover (Windows)-Media edition is effective recovery software, which is designed to recover lost or deleted files from iPod, using special in-built algorithms. This software can recover different type of files like audio files, video files, image files, text files etc based on their unique signature. This software is equipped with the signature search feature that helps you to recover deleted or lost files quickly. This software supports different models of iPods like iPod Classic Mini, iPod Nano and iPod shuffle. You can download free demo version to view recovered data.