ITunes 6 Reports wrong size IPOD

I recently installed version 6 and now my 20 gig 4G shows up as a 60 Gig. It goes through the process of d'loading all of my music to the player, but the player is no showing any songs.

Do you have any mapped network drives? Try unmapping them. It's possible that Windows gave the iPod the same drive letter as one of your mapped drives, so when you sync, it's copying all the files to the network drive instead of the iPod.
You can change the iPod's drive letter using the Disk Management tool.

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I thought that OS X ignored any sort of BIOS info on a drive and merely looked at the physical media. Is this correct? Does it store this gathered info in a file somewhere that I can delete?
*This is a call for help.*
I have no problems playing with the command line as root, if that's the sort of suggestions you've got. I just thought I'd ask here before I fdisk/dd etc from new500 to old500. Geometry of the new500 is 60801/255/63.

Thanks! That sounds like a good short term solution for a backup.
EDIT: Cross reference link for anyone who happens to google this thread with a similar problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7230072&tstart=0
Message was edited by: mr_lunch

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Good afternoon,
I have been using Time Machine on a Macbook Pro 2012 backing up to a QNAP NAS TS-419 P II
After a year of using Time Machine without any issues I've now ran into a situation i do not seem able to resolve.
For several reasons I wanted to do a full Time Machine reset and do a new full back.
For that, after trying various solutions with no succes, I've deleted the sparse bundle, switched off Time Machine support, restarted the NAS, switched on Time Machine support again. Furthermore i did full reset on the Macbook following as per http://pondini.org/TM/A4.html
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Actually, I can shorten this down to just:
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12GB Linux Partition
100GB OSX Partition
1GB Linux Swap Partition
It also has 7GB of Free Space at the end of the drive
Now I want to shrink the OSX Partition down to around 80GB (It has 30GB available space) so I have 27GB of Free space to create a Windows Partition. The problem is when I go into disk utility it reports the above partition structure but it also reports I have "100.3GB Free space" at the start of the drive. This is obviously incorrect. It seems harmless enough but the problem is it causes a "The chosen size is not valid for the chosen filesystem" error when I try to resize the OSX partition because the system adds up the size of all of the partitions, realises it's 220GB and so throws the error because it's above the 120GB Drive size. I can't seem to get it to realise that there is no free space at the start of the drive. I've tried using a couple of Linux partitioning programs like GParted and they recognise the correct partition structure but they had a couple of unrelated problems.
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MickiB wrote:
Hi Pondini,
Thank you for those links. I managed to get the Time Capsule erased and just manually copied my drive to the Time Capsule. After rebooting it copied faster and with the right sizes, so, for the fast fix, that worked.
There's little point to copying the entire contents of your HD that way; that won't make a usable backup; you can recover things by drag and drop, but you can't use it to restore your whole system. In a pinch, you might copy just your home folder that way.
I guess I can't expect it to behave as if it were any other drive. It still comes up under "Shared", but otherwise, it works like any external drive, so that's good.
Yes, a few things are different, being on a network rather than directly-connected via USB or FireWire.
BUT, for some reason, I never got an email telling me you posted, and just checked today to see what's new, if anything. Being subscribed to my own question doesn't seem to be enough this time!! Weird, but, oh well.
Check the email address associated with your profile. If it's correct, also check with your ISP; their spam filter might have intercepted it.
Thanks so much for taking your time to answer me. One day soon I'll need to back up again, so will try what you suggested.
It sounds to me like you need a larger internal HD, and/or an external HD, so you have room for all your stuff, and can use the TC for proper backups. Especially if your stuff is important to you, a good backup plan will be sure you have at least two copies of everything important in at least two separate places. Actually, many folks recommend a minimum of two full backups, one of which is off-site (so you're also protected against fire, flood, theft, and direct lightning strike on your power lines). See #27 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum), for some suggestions.

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Thanks for the tip, but this didn't work, unfortunately. Following your lead a bit further, I even created a new playlist and dragged the whole library there, but the wrong bitrates (and thus, playlist size) still appeared.
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On the pic you can see the difference between the free space reported by my iPod (403 MB) and iTunes (0.29Gb)

I took the pic when I finished syncing, so that shouldn't be an issue, no matter how many times I sync, free space is never equal (iPod always reports more space).
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