Do not disconnect not going away

I have a 60 gb video ipod. I have been uploading songs to my ipod before and all of a sudden, it stopped putting them on my ipod. I would watch it transfer in itunes but as soon as i took my ipod off the dock the songs wont be on there.
And another thing. I have to manually eject my ipod now because the do not disconnect screen never goes away even after it says update complete in itunes.

I have the same problem with my ipod nano. Itunes will not consolidate my library, new music will not transfer to my ipod, and whenever I connect my ipod, the "do not disconnect" never goes away. I have already reinstalled the program and I'm still having this problem. How can this be fixed?
compac Windows XP

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Itunes says "update complete" but "do not disconnect" never goes away!

So, I wait and wait and "do not disconnect" on my ipod never goes away.
A little history:
I got my nano a few weeks ago, put a few songs on - everything worked fine. Then, I got a new computer. Since I only put a few songs on, I didnt mind starting from scratch. Now, I can't seem to get it to work!? I have songs in itunes. when i click on my ipod, it shows that i have songs on the ipod, it SAYS the update is complete, my ipod shows "do not disconnect" i wait for ages, and then finally just eject the ipod, and - NO SONGS are on it.
help please. thanks
Windows XP Pro

Do not disconnect always on, this happens when you have "enable disk use" ticked in the iPod preferences, in which case you have to manually eject your iPod.
However if you are automatically updating your iPod and do not intend using it as a portable hard drive, you can set your iPod to automatically disconnect.
Connect your iPod and in iTunes go to Preferences>iPod. Under the Music tab see if you have your iPod set to automatically sync with iTunes and also have a tick in the box marked “enable disk use". Remove this tick and your iPod should automatically disconnect after it’s finished updating.
If you have your iPod set to manual update, the box will be greyed out and ticked by default, in that case use Safely remove Hardware icon or check this link: "Disconnecting iPod from your computer
" http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61135

Keeps showing Do Not Disconnect never goes away

I have a older ipod not sure what it is actully called it is slim and black and 4GB it is not working when I plug it into the computer it just keeps showing Do Not Disconnect and it never goes away.

Hi Trudy...I had same prob before and you need to download apple's itunes software to be able to access or listen to your ipod...ok good luck!

Ipod classic screen stuck on 'do not disconnect' not responding to anything?

As the title suggests, I connected the ipod to load some music on it and the screen displayed the ' do not disconnect' sign.....but iTunes didn't bring it up and the ipod doesn't respond to anything. The laptop recognised an error with the ipod and suggested resetting to factory settings....but this failed....I updated iTunes to try again...but it will not recognise the ipod at all and the ipod is stuck on ' do not disconnect' not reacting to plug/power/laptop etc.....any help is much appreciated as there is literally nothing I can do with it.

Have you tried resetting your device?
How to reset iPod
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How do I get the do not disconnect to go away? Yep, I disconnected before I should have

how do I get the DO NOT DISCONNECT message to clear....

If you disconnected before your iPod came back on it could be bricked. Try resetting iPod back to factory settings but back up all your music, photos, files etc to an external or make sure you have them on your Mac before doing so.

"Do not Unplug" never goes away

Our nano continues to say "Do not unplug" even after iTunes says it's done updating. What do we do?

If you have enabled disk use for the iPod, the do not disconnect message will not disappear on its own; in this case, several ways of ejecting the iPod are described in this article.
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Do not disconnect wont go away

Yeah thats my problem and I have toggeled the hold and tried to reset so any other suggestions would be helpful

If you have your iPod set to transfer your music manually, then that “do not disconnect” message will continue to be displayed on your iPod until you manually eject it.
You can do this by clicking on the little eject icon next to the iPod listing in the source window of iTunes, or right click on it and select “eject”. There is also an iPod 'eject' icon in the lower right hand corner of iTunes. Another way would be to use the “safely remove hardware” icon in the system tray next to the clock (looks like a grey rectangle with a green arrow above it). Click on this then select your iPod. Or through Windows, select start/my computer, right click on the iPod, select eject. With a Mac, drag the iPod into the trash.
If you have your iPod set to automatically sync with iTunes version 7 or later, connect the iPod and when you see the summary screen, uncheck the box marked "enable disk use".
If you are using an earlier version of iTunes, right click on the iPod in the source list, select options and uncheck the same box.
In future your iPod should automatically disconnect after it’s finished transferring music.

Connecting iPod to computer & getting "Do Not Disconnect" (not recognized)

I plug my iPod (40 gig, click wheel) into my computer and the screen goes to "Do Not Disconnect" and I can hear the hard drive turning. The problem is that it never pops up in iTunes and have tried to restore and since it keeps churning away on "Do Not Disconnect" it isn't recognizing the iPod.
I've read the forums and FAQs and I've seen similar issues but has anyone had this specific problem?
The iPod is trying to connect but never gets there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I plug my iPod (40 gig, click wheel) into my computer
and the screen goes to "Do Not Disconnect" and I can
hear the hard drive turning. The problem is that it
never pops up in iTunes and have tried to restore and
since it keeps churning away on "Do Not Disconnect"
it isn't recognizing the iPod.
I've read the forums and FAQs and I've seen similar
issues but has anyone had this specific problem?
The iPod is trying to connect but never gets there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have had this problem too and still do to this day - my computer won't recognize that the ipod is attached and basically just freezes up. Last time I loaded music from itunes, I found a very helpful post on this discussion board that told me how to change my USB speed from 2.0 to 1.1. After doing this, my computer recognized the ipod and I was able to load songs (of course it took forever but that is OK). However, I can no longer find the posting. Does anyone out there know how to do this?
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Ipod flashes "do not disconnect", not recognized in itunes source - Help!

My ipod (2nd generation) continues flashes do not disconnect when connected. Recently upgraded to itunes 8. Have tried 5Rs including restarting service, renaming drive, reinstalling itunes, etc.
Also ran diagnostic, all test pass except sync test. Please help, any thoughts?

hi, thanks for responding so quickly. here's what happened:
1. i connected the ipod to my laptop and the DND (do no disconnect) message flashed on the ipod screen.
2. as u suggested, i clicked on itunes and tried to change its setting to automatic..it was on automatic already.
*laptop showed update was completed but DND message still flashes on ipod. I decided to check if everything else was working.
3. downloaded a song and when it was done i checked my itune page and library...song wasn't there.
4. i clicked file, add file to the library, browsed and found the song in documents/music/itunes.
5. clicked open then updated the ipod.
*update completed, DND shows on ipod, clicked eject, took out the cable.
6. menu showed on screen, all other songs were there expect for the last one i tried to transfer.
i don't know what to do now...?? could it be broke?
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Shows !folder then goes to do not disconnect then to apple icon,

my daughters ipod goes from the !folder icon to do not disconnect to apple icon, over and over.Tried the reset
then it shows !battery icon, i can find the !battery icon
any where on the web site what does it mean and does it have anything to do with the !folder,d.n.d.,apple icon repeating.also it shows on my tray when it shows do not disconnect but goes away on the others
any suggestions?

Firstly, sorry for my poor English, but I would like to share with you my experience, and hope that it may helps you.
Since the release and update of iTunes 7, I have not faced any problem, but I heard a lot of articles from this forum about the errors 1417, 1418, 1428 and 50 etc. I could not make any suggestion and find a solution about it, all I could do is to copy some threads from some successful cases mentioned on this forum.
Until yesterday, I finally received a 4th Gen 20GB iPod (around 2 years old)from a friend and asked me whether I could fix it for him, which has been left untouched as a paper-weight for almost 2 months.
I tried to turn it on, and the screen was completed blank and the device looked dead. Before doing anything I prepared the following:-
1. A window based PC
2. A Mac computer
3. An USB iPod cable
4. A Firewire iPod cable
5. An iPod AC charger
As the iPod was previously formatted on a PC, therefore I tried to plug it with a PC via USB cable, it did not response and not able to get recognized by the PC. I ejected the iPod and connected with an AC charger, after a few minutes, I did a Reset for the iPod
How to reset iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61705
The iPod showed an Apple sign, it stuck there for almost a minute, the screen then showed a battery with an exclamation mark sign, and after a minute, the iPod turned off itself. I was sure that the iPod carried very low battery, and could not be charged by connecting it with any computer (both Mac and PC).
I decided to let it have a charge with an AC charger for a bit longer, after 10 minute I did the Reset again, this time a sign of folder with exclamation mark showed up after the Apple sign, and again could not get recognized by a computer.
I changed my mind, and put the iPod into disk mode
Putting iPod into disk mode
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
Instead of connecting with a PC, I plug it with my Mac using a Firewire cable, it did not response, so I switched the cable to an USB, interestingly, the iPod got recognized and a window pop up indicating that the iPod needed to do a Restore. Therefore I clicked “Restore”, after a few seconds, an Error message pop-up with Error Message 1417, the sign that I have been waiting for quite sometime.
I ejected the iPod and the screen immediately showed a folder exclamation mark (a sign indicating a corrupted or a failure iPod OS). I am forced to put the iPod into disk mode again, connected with the Mac computer and open the Disk Utility
1. Open the disk utility, hope your iPod appears there (left hand side), highlight it
2. Go to Tab “Partition”, click either “Delete” or “Partition”, if fails, skip this step and go to 3
3. Go to Tab “Erase” , choose Volume Format as “MAC OS Extended (Journaled), and click Erase, again if fails, skip it and go to 4
4. Same as step 3, but open the “Security Options....” and choose “Zero Out Data” before click Erase. It will take 1 to 2 hours to complete.
5. Eject your iPod and do a Reset
6. Open the iTunes 7 and click “Restore”
It managed to complete the Restore process, and started to sync with the iTunes. However, it got stuck at the song no.238 from the total of 2000. I left it for an hour, but with no process, instead the iPod became “Hot” and the iTunes showed an Error message of 1428. I ejected the iPod from my Mac computer, the iPod’s screen turn to show the famous killer icon;“The Sad iPod“.
This time it was totally dead, even failed to put it into Disk Mode and non of the computer could recognize it. Sigh, I hated to do it but I knew that I must did the following:-
Holding the iPod in my Palm, and hitting it on a surface of a Sofa with 5 attempts.
Did not surprise me, the iPod turned on and it showed the Language Menu on the screen. So, I put it into Disk Mode and connected with my window PC.
The PC showed a sign and indicated that an USB device had been connected with it. I opened the iTunes and did a Restore there.
However, an Error Message 50 showed up, but I were not worried about it, connected it back with my Mac computer with it in Disk Mode. As expected the iTunes opened and allowed me to do a Restore there.
This time it managed to complete the process and a window of register pop up. After the completed the process, the iPod started to sync with the iTunes again, which finally managed to complete the process.
I left it connecting with the AC charger overnight. In the next morning, I switched it on and have a play with it, I am so glad as it is working like a charm.
From the above experience, I would like to share it with the user the following:-
1. It always better to charge with an ac charger instead of the computer, as when an iPod carrying with very low battery, it may not able to get charge from a computer
2. Try to connect the iPod with a computer, switching between USB and Firewire
3. Try to format an iPod with HD problem, with a different kind of computer e.g. Mac or PC, as the formats are totally different, the way it formats may able to solve the bad sectors on the HD
4. It may get better chance to get your iPod recognized, if you put it in Disk Mode
I hope the following works in your case as I did.

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Having problems with Do Not Disconnect, as soon as I connect my Nano to the computer it goes into Do Not Disconnect. iTunes pops up and says that update is completed, but Do Not Disconnect never goes away. Been using the Nano for months now and this problem just started. Tried repairing itunes, tried resetting the ipod, have already completed the update as well. Noticed problem after trying to manual add and remove songs off ipod (which I never got to work), have switch setting back to automatic update songs and still having problems. I have ejected ipod for in itunes, but still shows Do Not Disconnect. I have also restarted my computer several times with no luck. What am I doing wrong?
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Your iPod just froze. Depending on computer setups, some iPods do this when first connected.
All you have to do if it happens again is a reset...
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Ipod never changes from Do not disconnect when attached to Laptop

I have been having issues with my ipod nano. I have gone through all of R steps, I have reset my ipod, updated my ipod, re-installed i-tunes and the ipod software, checked to make sure my PC is updated.. everything. I am about at wits end.
No matter what I do, when my ipod is attached to my computer I am unable to get Do not disconnect to go away, and i-tunes never recognizes my ipod. I am able to see it from windows explorer.
Please help. Let me know if you need any additional information for clairification. I miss my ipod!

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
If iTunes doesn't see it then it won't be ejected.
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DO NOT DISCONNECT SCRREN NEVER GOES AWAY!!

Hey i have an Ipod nano, 2 gen i think, 2gb. When I plug it into my computer the "Do Not Disconnect" screen on my Ipod goes up, and even when it's done uploading that screen NEVER goes away, it still charges, but that screen doesn't allow me to listen to my music when it's charging. Can I fix this?

Yes You can fix this easily. First let the Ipod download files from computor(known as sync), once it has downloaded, then click on the nano drive on the desktop, from the file menu click on eject nano or use the apple key(next to space bar) along with the e Key, push these two bottons at the same time. after the nano drive symbol disapears from the desktop, the do not disconnect will be replaced with a charging sybol, and you will then be able to play all tunes on your nano while it's being chared. When the nano is charge it will change the nano display to an electrical plug. Have fun!
(PS) if you need more help, Email me at ([email protected])

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I recently had my 160g ipod classic returned after having the play button fixed. Upon recieving it I encounted the problem that either we could only get the apple image screen or the do not disconnect (with the crossed circle) screen. When plugging it back into the computer the do not disconnect image would remain, yet the computer was trying to acknowledge it.
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I have had that same problem since beginning.
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