IPOD/ITUNES FIX
When I used to have my old PC i had all of my ipods music and it's itunes library there. when i got my new laptop all i had to do was transfer the music into files and then to my new itunes. it was fine until somehow my music files got deleted so itunes could no longer play the music it had a ! sign next to the song name and it said failed to locate. i tried to sync my ipod but all that messed up filing i believe caused this ugly scratch on the inside of the ipod screen. Now it also can't play any songs at all and the ipod makes weird noises like a computer would. i'm really mad because i can't figure this out. i had the music on my iphone 4 as well and i could have just kept the music on there because it was fine but i got a virus and had to restore it and this happens. i'm missing about 250 songs from the ipod and i want to know where to find those files because it says i transferred all of them from the ipod but i know for sure i'm missing a lot of songs. please help me it's an 80gb ipod classic that was really good and it's having problems now and i have no clue what to do. I want all of my 3 apple devices to have that music someone please help! please it would help
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Okay... I tried this. Same problem as before (even though I've not downloaded the "new" update): itunes recognizes the ipod, starts to update, puts on some songs, then announces "update finished". Less than 1G of songs have transfered (to a 20G ipod). When I unplug the ipod and replug it, a few more songs download and then, again, itunes tells me the udate is done.
Although it hasn't happened yet, when I've done this in the past couple of days, eventually it looks like (on about the third iteration) that it is actually updating with all the songs, but, when it finishes, there is NOTHING on the ipod. So I start over.
Any other thoughts? Anyone find a fix for this nonsense?
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I'll try to make a long story as short as possible here.
i've had a 40G ipod for over a year and a half now. back in the beginning things were working fine. with the size i hadn't done any syncing for a long long time. however, the ipod crapped out so i got a replacement from the apple store.
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dock & firewire cable
- pc running windows xp pro
- firewire card with 3 ports
- ipod & itunes software located on 120G c: drive
- mp3 collection located on secondary 160G d: drive
- 3/4 gig of ram
p.s. i have mcafee running and i've tried everything with it on as well as off. doesn't seem to make a difference.
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first promise me that you'll back up your data. having your PC shut down in non-standard ways (for
b any
reason) increases your risk of file corruption and putting scruffy spots on your hard drive.
Now some basic first aid. download some fresh definitions and do some vigorous virus and spyware scans. run your favorite hard-disk checking utility. do a disk cleanup.
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http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm
(2) squeeze your error logs for all they're worth. right-click on "My Computer", select manage. click on your event viewer. click on your application and system logs, and look for errors and warnings happening at roughly the same time as your crashes.
click on the relevant warnings to see if you can find any commonalities in the errors/warnings. follow up the Help and Support links to see if you can find any suggested "User action" or relevant MS KB documents. (sometimes these things are there, sometimes they aren't.)
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