Major ipod/itunes problem

I've read many threads and tried many things to help me, including the 5 Rs, loading ipod in disk mode, diagnostic mode, reinstalling itunes, clearing out the temp file, clearing out previous itunes installers, and more.
Background: I used to have an ipod but it was stolen, so for my vacation i'm borrowing my girlfriends. Previous to these events her ipod would freeze every so often. Not a big deal though.
I plugged the ipod into my computer, and synced my music it deleted hers and when I got back to my computer it had stopped because one of my songs could not be found or something. So I hit okay.
Problem: Itunes functions normally when the ipod is not plugged in. As soon as I do, it takes about 5x longer to open itunes, I get the autoplay message. When Itunes opens the ipod isn't showed in the status menu, later minutes it will be 'IPOD' and I get the "Ipod is corrupted please restore" message. After the restore is done, it freezes when it restarts at the apple screen. It does that almost any time it restarts. (Yes i've tried doing it in disk mode). Also when I try to right click on the "Removable disk" in My Computer it freezes my computer. Also makes the infamous ticking noise.

Um i was listening to my ipod when my headphones came out then my screen froze and it hasnt unfroze its been like 30 minutes and my family doesnt know anything about ipods what do i do?

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Well, yesterday i tried to update my iPod touch firmware from 2.0 to 2.2. Ok, giving me the permission denied error that everyone else is getting.
So i waited till today, tried again, still no dice, ok, i'll just keep waiting. Then i tried to copy a video (in the correct format) from my desktop to my iPod. It transfers INCREDIBLY slowly, like it's on a USB 1.1 connection when it's actually on 2.0. Then suddenly, halfway through, it gives me an error that my iPod is unavailable to sync, it's not recognised etc. Now trying to copy anything over (music, videos, pictures) just completely fails, as in if dragging and dropping from my library onto my iPod, iTunes gives me the dissallowed cursor when i mouse over my ipod.
So then i tried restoring; problem is, it tries to restore and update at the same time, and as the update isn't working, it won't restore.
Just to let you know, I've tried rebooting my PC (i'm on XP pro by the way) and my iPod and i've tried switching USB ports also. Still not working. Any help would be great.
Thanks.

ok, i have the same problem as you, dealing with trying to update ipod touch software on itunes. and it said i didn't have permission. this sounds like a difficult issue. have you tried contacting the apple store yet and talking to a tech? i had a similar problem before on my mac and i called the store and they were incredibly helpful.

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Now equiped with 5G iPods, my wife and I tried putting our photo album onto them. We have separate Windows XP logins.
Problem 1: Using the same photo directory was impossible: the "iPod Photo Cache" that is created there is write-protected against users other than the creator. Couldn't it be made shareable, or else created elsewhere than in the shared photo directory root (as is the iTunes music library)?
Problem 2: All our music files are on an external USB hard drive. Up until now, this drive did not need to be connected for me to sync the iPod with the podcasts in my music directory. It would just claim it couldn't find the disconnected files. I decided (given problem 1) to put a copy of our photos on the external drive too. When I tried sync'ing without the drive attached, iTunes got stuck in a busy-loop, using up all the CPU of the machine. I had to kill the process. I copied the photos back to the PC's internal disk, attached the external drive, reconfigured to point to the internal drive and sync'ed. All OK. Then I sync'ed without the external drive being there: looping again!
Problem 3: Windows XP has a much too simplistic approach to assigning drive letters. Even if you use the Computer Management -> Disk Management tool (accessible via the Control Panel's Administrative Tools) to assign a particular drive letter to an external drive, Windows is only too happy using that letter for another, non-assigned drive. Unfortunately, I loaded my songs into the iTunes library when the external drive was labelled G, the first free drive letter on my machine. Short of deleting the library and starting again (something I don't want to do), there is no way I can see to repoint the library references as a group (you can do it file-by-file, but that's incredibly slow and frustrating for even a single directory/album; forget a collection of 6000 songs!). Can this be scripted in some way on XP?
Thanks for any help/suggestions/fixes to iTunes!
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I have no idea. It is not listed in any App articles and a Google search did not even find a hit for the error number.
All I can suggest is:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Removing and Reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows XP

Solution for some iPod/iTunes problems...

If you are having one or more of the following problems, Windows may be confusing iPod with a network drive or hard drive and may exhibit strange behavior, like:
-iPod does not show up in iTunes or as disk in Windows Explorer
-iPod does not show up as disk in Windows Explorer (even though disk mode in enabled ont he iPod).
-iTunes and Windows Explorer report the wrong amount of available space on the iPod.
-No songs appear on the iPod after an apprently successful update from iTunes.
-Music copied to mapped network drive instead of iPod.
-The iPod setup assistant appears in iTunes everytime the iPod is connected.
-iTunes displays the "iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode- use iTunes to restore" message even after the iPod has been restored.
-The wrong iPod name displays in the iTunes source list.
Please note*changing the iPod drive letter may not affect what letter theiPod uses on subsequent connections, so its not the best long-term solution unless you want to change this everytime you have issues.
To change the drive letter:
-Open Control Panel in Windows
-Go to Administrative Tools
-Go to Computer Management
-Go to Disk Management
-Locate theiPod and right click on it, then click Change drive letter and paths.
-Use the drop-down box to select a new drive letter. Make sure to use a drive letter that is not already assigned to a network drive. The drop-down menu will display all letters that are not assigned to a physical drive, but network drives will stil be listed so be careful. If you arent sure, add a new drive and pick your own letter, something way down the list is best since common drives are A, B, C, D, etc.
-click OK
-Click yes on the confirmation box
-Restart computer
Good luck!!! It worked for me!!!

Honestly, I don't know!! I searched ITunes and IE7 and saw that others were having the same problem I was and that if they stopped using IE7 Itunes started working again.
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Ok heres the problem. I get a virus on my comp awhile back, so i have to System Recovery on my comp. Iv had viruses and done this system recovery to my comp many times. And every time i get it working after the system recovery my iTunes wont work, also meaning the iPod cant get hooked up and upload music, it gives me the whole "iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close. sorry for the inconvenience" crap.
Iv had this problem many times before, and it usually takes me awhile of just doing random **** for it to work, but lately iv had diff. **** going on so i couldnt work on it, but i tried earlier today to fix it.
I always remembered downloading a new iTunes from Apple.com, and after doing some **** installing that and it working, just having to update/install the iPod.
Thing is i cant remember all i did to get the new iTunes to install. Right now i have tried deleting all the "corrupt" iTunes files & stuff, and installing the new iTunes, but no luck, still not working.
If anybody can help it would be great, if u need to ask me a question about it, hit me on a PM.
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For your itunes folder 'You' are the owner.
It should read: 'Owner: YourLoginname'. If it's not, click on the little padlock symbol and change it to the name you use to log in.
You normaly don't have to change ownership at 'Group' (which at my computer says 'staff') and 'Others', but you can change it to 'Read & Write'.
Below 'Others' (just above the 'Comments:' pane) there should be a button 'Apply to enclosed items...'
Read this article about setting permissions in OS X 10.4:
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I'm going to make it simple.
Last week my G5 crashed and Darwin came up asking for login. This stank but I got it fixed and now my computer is up and running. But now I am having a problem with iTunes.
I want to update my iPod because I have new thing to put on it and it shows up on my desk top but not in iTunes.
I have tried alot of things to try and fix it but nothing seems to be working. I need this fixed. Can anyone help me out? Do I need to update my OS? I don't see why because my iPod worked perfectly when I got it.
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Trying to help you here.
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I have an iPod Touch Gen 3 with iOS 5.1.1. I'm running Windows 8 (which is probably my first problem) and iTunes 11 or whatever the latest one is. For whatever reason, whenever I add a song from my laptop to my iPod, the song: A) either skips, only plays the first couple of seconds and then goes on to the next song, or doesn't play at all and goes on to the next song, and B) has heavily pixelated and distorted artwork. I originally thought that it was my old iPod screwing up, which is two years old and semi-broken, so I assumed it was just ready to die. I've deleted and reinstalled my iTunes, but that didn't help. I'm going to run a security scan soon to see if there's anything wrong with the iTunes files. If anyone has had this happen and knows how to fix, or if anyone has an idea to give me a direction to go, please help me out.

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ive been having serious problems with syncing my ipod. i get a different eror mesage everytime i conect it, and everytime i manage to get to sync it says i need to update to version 1.1.1 and everytime i do update it, it says i need to update it again as if i never updated it in the first place. and provided all of the dosnt happen, it will only sync about 50 songs at a time, then stop, and usualy display another random error message. ive looked all throught this forum, and ive seen other people with similar problems, but none of the solutions to those problems will fix mine. some one please help

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Hi all. I'll try to give the short version of my major iPod problems I've been having. It's been going on for a couple months straight now.
The first thing that started happening was, in the middle of playing a song, it would freeze, and then start skipping through of the rest of the tracks on that playlist or album. It would sometimes make a "whirring" sound when going from track to track without playing them. Sometimes, this process would start instead when trying to manually skip from one song to another...it would just start to skip through tracks. It had to be restarted a bunch of times, and none of these problems had been present in the 2 or so years previous I owned it. Eventually, it showed an "unhappy face" and nothing else could be done.
I brought it back to Best Buy, where I bought it, as it was still under warranty for another year. They sent the iPod back to Apple for repairs. The "repaired" iPod was back in my hands in about 3 weeks, and for a week or so worked perfectly. Then, it started having the skipping tracks problem again.
Not long there after, it started having more serious problems. It needed to be resetted very frequently. The skipping of tracks, the first warning sign, became the least of it's problems. It needed to be completely restored. The first time it was restored, it got through about 600-1000 of the 5800 songs on it, then stopped and said the restore failed.
Other times, it showed the dreaded "1418" message. Other times it had messages like these:
Attempting to copy to the disk “Andrew’s iPod” failed. An unknown error occurred (-69).
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Eventually, it synced correctly. But the problems continued, and over the course of two weeks it had to be completely restored about 3 or 4 times, although it would then work again perfectly fine for, like, an hour.
So I took it back in again. This time, Best Buy told me that I would be quickly sent back a "Refurb" unit (a refurbished iPod that someone else had returned, I guess and had then been fixed or what have you.)
After a few days, I got the refurb unit. It's not my old iPod, I could tell just by looking at the front and back. And, for about 2 weeks, it worked absolutely perfectly. It reloaded like a charm, and played completely fine. The battery life seemed a little iffy, but nothing crazy.
Then, yesterday, this iPod that *is not* the same iPod I returned as far as I can tell, is having THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM. Yesterday, in the middle of a song that I had played many times before, it froze, stopped, and started skipping songs. It needed to be reset, what else is new. So, I did, and got the "unhappy face" with the address of iPod support once again.
I'm really confused. What is the problem here? When I had my first unit returned, I figured perhaps the problem hadn't been addressed. But this doesn't even appear to be the same unit.
Could there be a problem with iTunes 7.1.1 with my iPod? For what it's worth, I followed the advice found online to try to find corrupted music files, and can't find any. When it had restore problems with the last unit, I checked to see if it was stopping on any particular song, and it was different every time. Even so, I erased those songs just in case.
Also, when it freezes and stops now (and with the old unit, for that matter) it was never the same song. And it was almost always on a song that had already been played many times, perfectly fine, many times before, and recently to boot. I've also played through almost every song through iTunes over the last couple months to check for any obvious problems, and never found any.
With over 5750 songs on my iPod, I don't know how I can possibly know with complete certainty if there's anything with a problem amongst them, although completely erasing my iPod library that until 2 months ago never had a problem is kind of a worst case scenario.
What on earth could be wrong with my iPod? It's currently plugged into an outlet, vacillating between the Apple symbol and the "unhappy face." Anyone have ANY ideas?!?!?

I wondered what a 'photo' iPod was. This forum is for the 5G video. I don't know how long an iPod is supposed to last. I think it is based on use and how roughly it is handled if it is a hard-drive model.
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