How do I get iTunes to recognize iPod, post aborted sync?
Here is the rundown:
My friend who owed me money recently offered me his 4th gen. 20 GB iPod as a form of repayment, which I obviously accepted. This is the kind of iPod I would have wanted anyway. It had no songs on it as my friend was smart enough to clear them all off. However the iPod was formatted in Windows and as a staunch Mac lover and someone who wants to update the iPod to the freshest system it can handle, I plan to reformat it into Mac format so I can do this. Problem was I got ahead of myself and when iTunes finally recognized the iPod (battery was super low as my friend misplaced his charge cord), I approved it to sync to my laptop's iTunes library BEFORE I reformatted it to Mac. Long story short 3 songs synced out of several hundred, I halt all syncing processes so I could reformat it to Mac system first.
Now I can't get it to recognize anyplace, neither in iTunes nor in Finder. I erased and re-downloaded the iPod updater program about 5 times to see if it would shock it back to its senses, done about 4 iPod resets and now all I have to show for my efforts is a 20GB iPod with 3 songs and still in Windows format. How do I get it to where I want it to go from here. Every time I have tried to run the supposed iPod updater it locks up and stops responding, and to really rub it in refuses to force quit. Any ways to straighten this out would be welcomed.
First of all, I think the first time you sync an iPod that's formatted for Windows on a Mac, the sync process reformats it for Mac. You can check what it is now by looking for the iPod with Disk Utility. If it's Mac OS Extended, it's formatted for Mac already.
Also, there is no current iPod updater app these days. iTunes handles it through the Restore button. If you are not able to use the latest iTunes because of your Mac, I can understand. The latest version of iTunes should run with 10.3.9 or later, if the hardware can handle it.
You said the battery was low so let it recharge for a while.
You should also reset the iPod. It's part of the 5Rs, which you should go through as the starting point for iPod trouble-shooting.
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/wheel/
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