Ipod not really empty

My ipod will skip over any song or video I play but shows it is there. When I plug it into the computer, iTunes says shows the music, but says the iPod has all free space and will not play the music either. I would restore the iPod but some of the music that is on there is not backed up on my external hard drive. Is there any way to not lose everything or must I just reap what I sow. How did it happen to begin with? Thanks for any help.

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I recently used my 20gb iPod to temporarily store some files (photos and small video clips) so I could transfer them from one place to another. When I got home and copied the files to my computer, I moved the originals still on the iPod to the trash. However, my iPod's available space has not gone back to normal, though the files are no longer apparently on the iPod.
This is quite frustrating as it was over 4GB worth of data and means my iPod is now full...

I have a silly question: After you moved your photos to the trash, did you empty the trash?
If this is the case, your files are still taking up space, because the space they occupied has not been returned to the iPods' directory.
Think of your iPod as just a hard drive. Every hard drive has its own "trash".

Trash not really empty?

While poking around with DaisyDisk, I noticed on one of my other drives there is ~8GB of files in ~/Users/Username/.Trash. (Mostly a bunch of iTunes & song files)
The trash on the Dock is empty/not showing anything in it.
These seems to be files I deleted a long time ago.
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Why are they there and can I delete them myself?

I noticed on one of my other drives there is ~8GB of files in ~/Users/Username/.Trash.
Since it has a Users/Username folder it presumably has OS X installed on it, and I assume that "one of my other drives" means that you are not currently booted there.
If so, I think those items may have been put in the trash when you were booted from that volume, or from a volume that you subsequently cloned there. If the external volume is still bootable and you again boot from it, I think the "missing" items in Username/.Trash will probably reappear in the trash icon in the Dock. It should be safe to delete them in any event.
I'm not positive, but here is my take on this-
OS X keeps track of trash by username, and there are TWO hidden locations on a volume where user-specific trash can be stored.
For files in the startup volume, each user's trash goes into the .Trash directory in the home folder. But for external volumes, there is a different root-level folder called .Trashes, which contains numbered subfolders. Each user is identified by "User ID" - generally a number like 501, 502, etc, with 501 being the UID of the first user account created. The user's "external trash" goes into an appropriately numbered subfolder of the root-level .Trashes directory. You can't normally see the numbered subfolders even if hidden files are made visible, because .Trashes has write-only permissions for all. You can see the subfolders if you look with root privileges.
So If "Joe" is the username of the first user created, his UID would be 501. His local trash would go into /Users/Joe/.Trash on the startup disk, and his external trash would go into .Trashes/501 on the external volume. If he places files in several external volumes into the trash, each of those volumes will have a root-level .Trashes/501 folder holding his trash. Items in the local "startup-disk trash" and all the items in the various "external trashes" show up together in the trash icon in the Dock.
So if the external volume is bootable, and Joe had at one time started up from it, put items in the trash and didn't empty the trash, then those items would be left in /Users/Joe/.Trash, as per above. If now Joe boots from the internal HD, that folder will this time appear in the filesystem as /Volumes/volumename/Users/Joe/.Trash. The system, however, does not recognize items there as trash - it doesn't look there. It instead expects to find Joe's local trash in /Users/Joe/.Trash on the startup volume, and expects to find Joe's external trash in the various /Volumes/volumename/.Trashes/501 folders.
Anyway, that's my understanding - it may not all be correct.

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And it's totally impractical for any OS to provide complete backwards compatibility in perpetuity. So no, Apple cannot grant your request. As WJ said, it's the developers' reponsibility to provide updates to their applications to be compatible with newer operating system releases, whatever the platform might be.
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I dropped my ipod in the toilet, I haven't fixed it for months. I didn't know you could put it in rice, or to not open it right away. Is it too late to fix it, or a place? The ipod is really important to me, it has been with me forever.

I dropped my ipod in the toilet, I haven't fixed it for months. I didn't know you could put it in rice, or to not open it right away. Is it too late to fix it, or is there a place I could bring it to? I don't want to get a new one. The ipod is really important to me, it has been with me forever, and there is important stuff on it.

There are companies that specialize in data retrieval but it's costly (probably cheaper to buy a new iPod) and more than likely as Allan said, your circuits are probably damaged beyond all hope of retrieving anything. It's worth calling Apple you maybe able to get a discount or a refurbished iPod. Can't hurt to ask, Good luck. (And in the future... no texting in the john.) Sorry, couldn't resist it.

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Okay, and thanks for re-posting your photos. I have to agree that it definitely does look like crimping and would expect any continuity checks run on it to show an open or two. That would certainly explain your symptoms, but it's not the answer for all such cases, i.e., BLD, being reported here.
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A friend of mine wanted me to revamp her iPod with my music, erasing all that she had. Problem is, iTunes isn't seeing the iPod. My computer is. It's coming up as Mass Storage Device, and not showing up in the source list on iTunes. And when I opened the "Mass Storage Device" is was empty with the exception of some empty folders. The weird part is, iTunes opens when I plug it in. I already updated my iTunes software and reset the iPod with that menu center button hold manuver, and restarted my computer a few times. All the other troubleshooting stuff needs the iPod to show up in the source list, which it's not doing. So yeah. Any help would be nice.

Where did she originally connect her iPod??? It could be in MAC format and thus not allowing your device to see it... See this KB Article to determine the device's format:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1335
Besides the disclaimer of music sharing, once you erase the content of her device and load your iTunes data on there it will be ok. But of course the next friends device that she hops onto will undo the process that you've done above.
An iPod is really meant for a single users PC/MAC and syncronizing thier library. This causes some of the issues that you are seeing here.
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IPod not syncing on Windows or Mac

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"Attempting to copy to the disk <ipod name> failed. The disk could not be read from or written to."
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Now it gets even weirder.
I tried plugging the iPod into a third computer (PC) which belongs to someone else. The computer restores, syncs and loads all of his songs onto her iPod perfectly fine.
The only thing that makes sense is that there's somethng about one or more of her songs that's causing this problem. Is there anyway for me to find out which songs are doing this?

Ipod not recognised by Windows, USB device not recognised

Hi hope someone can help
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I have tried several methods on this forum but none seem to work.
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I'm not really up on the complexities of the Windows OS but try this tip I picked up a while back, hopefully it might help.
"USB Device not Recognized in Windows".
1. On the Start menu, click Control Panel.
2. Double-click the System icon.
3. Click the Hardware tab.
4. Click Device Manager.
5. Scroll down the list of devices to the Universal Serial Bus controllers
6. Click the plus icon next to the Universal Serial Bus controllers.
7. Double-click one of the indented USB Root Hub entries.
8. Click the Power Management tab.
9. Deselect the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" option.
10. Click the OK button at the bottom of the window.
11. Restart the computer.

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For "Cant mount iPod" - please try the following first
Click on Start=>Control Panel=>Admin Tools=>Computer Management=>Disk Management
-- Right-Click on the iPod and select “change drive letter”
-- Choose something further along in the alphabet that is unused (Usually, “M”, “N”, “O” or something similar)
-- Safely eject the iPod
-- Reboot the PC
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The Sad iPods icon, clicking sound or folder with an exclamation mark are the toughest problems to deal with, and must do a Restore in order to fix it. However, when your iPod is showing this icon, it is probably too late for your computer to recognize the iPod.
1. Try these five steps (known as the five Rs) and it would conquer most iPod issues.
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/
2. Try to put the iPod into Disk Mode if it fails to appear on the desktop
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651
Still can't see your iPod?
Several things could keep iPod from appearing in iTunes or in the Desktop/Finder when you connect it to your PC/Mac. The most likely causes are listed below in logical order. Check from the top of the list to see if that is what's keeping iPod from appearing.
3. Try to wait 30 minutes while iPod is charging.
4. Try another known-good FireWire or USB through Dock Connector cable.
5. Try another known-good FireWire or USB port on your computer .
6. Try to disconnect all devices from your computer's FireWire and USB ports.
7. Windows users having trouble with their iPods should locate a Mac user. We've found that in many cases when an iPod won't show up on a PC that it will show up on the Mac. Then it can be restored. When the PC user returns to his computer the iPod will be recognized by the PC, reformatted for the PC, and usable again. By the way, it works in reverse too. A Mac user often can get his iPod back by connecting it to a PC and restoring it.
There are also some cases being reported that some unrecognized iPod being able to be erased with Linux, then reconnect the iPod with the original computer and do a Restore there.
8. Try to do an Erase (Disk Utility) on a Mac computer or a format with a PC (Disk Management tool) but ensure you choose the right Drive (your iPod not your Hard Disk of your computer). You may need to plug and unplug your iPod with the computer for several attempts, and switching around Format and Restore, and hope out of sudden, it will get recognized.
9. Diagnostic mode solution – which I copied from a thread of a post from thinktwice
“Then I cam across this special Diganostics Mode that you can get to by resetting and then while the Apple is showing pressing the Select and backwards keys simultaneously. It bring up and weird Diagnostic utility witha a abunch of tests. Here is what I did
- I tried the 5in1 test and got and error on Firewire.
- I did the HDD R/W and surprisingly it passed.
- I went on to the HDD scan. This supposedly tkaes acouple of minute so I waited. I think 4-5 dots appeared then nothing. The iPod started to get hot. THe disk was spinning away. After a while the battery got very low. THis test chews up the battery. So I escaped out by resetting and went to connect it to a power source.
My USB was dangling out of my computer and I was too lazy to get the Firewire AC adapter thing going so I connected expecting the whole lockup thing with iTunes. Surprise. IT was recognized immediately and has been working like a champ. So go figure.
Details on Diag mode can be found at http://www.methodshop.com/mp3/ipodsupport/diagnosticmode/index.shtml
10. Let me ask you a question, if an iPod with no iPod software with it. When your connect it with a computer, what would happen?
Yeah, the computer will treat it as a fresh external hard disk, which will get force mounted, the computer will ask you to format the iPod. It does not really matter the format is completed or not, the key is to erase (or partly) the corrupted iPod software on the iPod, after that the computer will recognize it.
Once it has been completed, eject your iPod, open the iPod updater and interestingly, you will able to do the Restore this time.
Base on the above, that's why I suggest Windows users who experience trouble with their iPods should locate a Mac machine or vice versa. PC computer will not recognize a Mac formatted iPod, but it will get mounted in an attempt to format your iPod.
11. Put your iPod in disk mode and plug with a computer, and have a boot of your computer using the Mac OS or XP startup disks, hope that your iPod will be seen on Mac's Disk utility and allow you to do a Erase there. Or, under the XP, you will be able to find your iPod there for you to do a Restore.
But, if none of these steps address the issue, your iPod may need to be repaired. You can arrange for service at the iPod Service Website.
I have just read an interesting solution about the Sad iPod, it does make sense but the warranty will be waived once you open the iPod, I would not do it myself as I am not good on doing this
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=412033&tstart=0
Pictures and instructions of how to open the iPod case for battery replacement
http://www.kokopellimusic.us/KM_instructions.htm

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http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html
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http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1139
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