HELP- My itunes won't recognize my ipod! But it's on my desktop and finder

I've plugged my ipod into my USB on the side of my macbook as I always do after downloading some new music. But my itunes isn't recognizing that my ipod nano is plugged in. I can see it on my desktop and it is there in my finder, but I don't know how to make i sync. I've never had a problem before and haven't made any recent changes. Any ideas?

I am having the same problem with my iPod and iPhone along with many other people. I am in Canada also and called Applecare but they were no use. I suggest you give them a call and try and get them to view these messages as they do not beleive it is a major issue.

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I might have an answer....
I had this problem for 5 days and I finally sorted thru 15 articles to get it to work.
1. If you have a lap top go to this support web site and follow the instruction. I had the same problem with my creative media MP3 player.
2. The other useful tip is that the IPOD tries to pick a default drive on your computer and if u are already using that drive for something, then it does not work. To check/fix this...
a. Go to "MY computer"
b. Each drive will have a letter ("c:\")
Write down all of the ones you are using.
c. Right click on the "My computer icon" and select "Manage" from the menu.
d. Under "storage" pick "Disk management"
IT MAY TAKE upto 5 minutes to load!!!
e. Find the ipod in the menu on the right and make sure that the drive letter is not one that you wrote down in step b. If it is, then right click and change it.
f. Restart your computer.
3. IF this does not work, re-install ITunes.
AFter than... keep looking.
I got this stuff off of other discussion page so thanks to everyone who has helped me out!!!

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See if you can get your iPod into disk mode:
Ensure the HOLD switch is OFF so that there is NO orange color showing beneath the switch. Then, press and hold the MENU and the SELECT (center) buttons together for about 10 seconds, until you see an Apple logo. When you see the Apple, IMMEDIATELY press and hold the SELECT (center) and the PLAY/PAUSE buttons together until you see a check mark, and the iPod says "Disk Mode, OK to Disconnect."
This may help iTunes to recognize the iPod, at which time I'd suggest trying to restore again.
CG

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Take a look at this web page and see if it helps:
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Start iTunes. Make sure you really are running the version you think you are. Sometimes people end up with two copies, different versions.
Mac OS X v10.6: iOS device not recognized in iTunes after restart - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3540
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Device not recognized in iTunes for Mac OS X - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1591
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Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v.1.1 - http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
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Itunes won't recognize my ipod old or new one

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Hello crickettspeed,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3716
iPod: Appears in Windows but not in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1363
Try the iPod troubleshooting assistant:
If you haven't already done so, try the steps in the iPod Troubleshooting Assistant (choose your iPod model from the list).
If the issue remains after following your iPod's troubleshooting assistant, follow the steps below.
2. Restart the iPod Service
3. Restart the Apple Mobile Device Service
4. Empty your Temp directory and restart
5. Verify that the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver is installed
6. Change your iPod's drive letter
7. Remove and reinstall iTunes
8. Disable conflicting System Services and Startup Items
9. Update, Reconfigure, Disable, or Remove Security Software
10. Deleting damaged or incorrect registry keys
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Hey,
So, itunes wouldn't recognize my ipod and the ipod didn't show up in itunes, so i uninstalled itunes and plugged in the ipod again. Then it worked! I synched the ipod and unplugged it. A day later i wanted to synch it again, but itunes didn't respond to the ipod being connected to the computer. So i uninstalled and reinstalled and it worked again, but as last time, it wouldn't show up in itunes the second time i tried to connect the ipod.
What is up with that!!?
I shouldn't be necessary to uninstall itunes everytime i wanna synch
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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
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I have a PC with Windows. When I plug my Ipod into my computer, an Ipod window with three folders pops up, but Itunes does not recognize my Ipod. Am going on a bus trip soon and don't know what I'll do without it... would appreciate so much if anyone can tell me what to do... Thanks so much in advance!!!

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or
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- New cable and different USB port
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I have a iPod classic that has the sad face. I read all the articles, and videos that show how to fix it, and all of them show that you need to force it into disk mode and plug it into your computer and restore it with iTunes. I can get it into disk mode fine, but when I plug it into my computer iTunes won't recognize it.
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Is there any way to hard restore it, with out hooking it up to the computer.

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However, I can't find ANY of the folders they are talking about. I have windows vista on my laptop. I can't find a document and settings folder, a local settings folder, nor a Temp folder. I have selected to show hidden folders in the folder options menu. Can someone tell me how to follow this step (emptying the temp directory and restarting) on Windows Vista. OR, does anyone have any idea of what I can do to get iTunes to once again recognize my iPod.
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Here is the latest update in my saga. I decided to hook my iPod classic to my desktop computer to see if the iTunes on there recognized it. I barely use this computer so it did not have an updated version of iTunes on it. After the drivers were updated I got a message in iTunes saying that Tiffany's iPod could not be used with this version of iTunes because it required version 7.6 or higher (or something like that). I took that as a good sign since iTunes obviously recognized the iPod long enough to correctly tell me the name of my iPod. However, after updating iTunes the desktop's iTunes did not recognize my iPod classic either. I have been trying to figure out what is wrong with this thing since Wednesday of last week. I am just really frustrated now. I was hesitant to reformat the iPod because I read in some other posts that people reformated the iPod and iTunes still didn't recognize it. At least now I do have some music on the iPod...but I guess at this point I have no other choices. Any other ideas out there I may be missing? And if I do have to reformat the iPod do I do that by going to my computer and reformating it there since iTunes doesn't recognize it which means I can't restore it using iTunes.

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