My 10,000 Songs Gone

[Lt Major Burns]

except when they don't make an ipod big enough for your entire library. roll on 160gb ipod ¬_¬

[fryke]

well... i guess _that_ would make sense, then. Still, when I thought about buying an iPod nano 1 GB (didn't, then...), I thought I'd just give it one or two good playlists to autosync.

[Mat]

Thanks for athe help people. I ended up just having to bite the bullet and restored the ipod and attempted the reloading of all my songs.

Guess what?! It happened again! This time however, in the Finder, Get Info tells me that my iPod has 18GB used space, while iTunes refuses to even see my iPod is there. iPod updater says my iPod is half full too. It seems that there is still something on there, however the iPod says it has 0 songs, and iTunes won't recognise it.

Is there a way I can get it to be recognised by iTunes wthout having to restore it?

Thanks, again. Mat.

[fryke]

Bring it back to the store. Obviously something's wrong with this iPod. Bewitched or something. When you get a replacement, you'll want to carefully plan the way to fill the iPod. Some people - I'm not saying you! - don't get that if they delete songs from iTunes, they're also removed from the iPod automatically. I'd really go with the separate user account for your sister, so you _can_ use the iPod and iTunes as intended, i.e. the iPod to reflect your iTunes library.

[HateEternal]

Sounds like the index is getting wiped/corrupted. All your songs should still be on the iPod but the file it uses to build the menu is toast. You should probably be able to restore it using a third party application. Something to check into anyways.

I doubt something is wrong with the iPod, there has to be something else going on. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense for an iPod to wipe out it's index randomly. Perhaps there is a file with a messed up name or something.

[futureTom]

In a similar vein, my HDD isn't big enough to keep my 20GB of iPod music, so I delete the music from the computer. Because I always set iTunes to update manually, all is ok. But how can keep it this way if say, the computer is sent for repair, and software is changed. I can only check when the ipod is connected, but of course by then it may be too late.

Can I backup any files to ensure my manual update preferences are kept?