Sync problem with iPod Video U2

Since upgrading to 7.5, iTunes doesn't sync my iPod anymore: as soon as I plug my iPod, iTunes recognizes it, but there is no sync because iPod immediately disconnects. I cannot choose 'manual sync' or 'enable disk mode' because this happens after very few seconds. Why???

Try restoring your iPod. Restoring will erase the iPod's hard drive, reload the software and put it back to default settings. Once the restore is complete follow the on screen instructions and it should connect to iTunes and give you a prompt to automatically update your library onto the fresh installation. If you want to update manually or using selected playlists choose no and it will default to manual mode and enable the iPod for disk use. From there you can choose whatever setting you like: Restoring iPod to factory settings with iTunes 7

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Go to the video settings (iPod nano) and turn off fit to screen.
Click to download iPod nano (5th generation) - User Guide
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Sync problems with ipod color

Hi I'm having problems copying music onto my ipod. I am running iTunes 5 with the latest iPod software (1.2 from ipod updater 2005-09-23) on a windows XP platform with Service pack 2. My iPod is connected to my computer through USB 2.0.
When I plug my ipod to my computer, everything works fine, it gets recognized, I see the "do not disconnect" icon on the ipod and it starts syncing but the problem is, way before it finishes tranfering the songs, my ipod comes back to the main menu. I can read in iTunes that the transfer is complete and that it's ok to disconnect my ipod, even though it was NOT complete!
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I have the same type of problem with my iPod 20GB color running XP Home SP2. This happens when I import a large number of songs (over 100 or so) from my CD's in iTunes at one time. It will disconnect and then restart the transfer over again several times. I figured out that when your iPod is actually connected and doing the transfer, if you right click on the iPod (example: Joe Smiths iPod) in the iTunes left side menu, and click on "update" every 40 or 50 songs or so it will transfer everything without disconnecting. I discovered this yesterday while transferring about 270 songs to my iPod after it tried to automatically do it about three times. I don't know if this is the "real" fix for this but it worked for me. The problem doesn't appear to happen with a couple of CD's worth of songs.
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I have recently recovered from a crash and has to restore everything from my time machine.
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I believe you need to reset the Sync services data. Assuming your data on the Mac is correct (or correctable), try this:
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10. Sync.
That should do it.
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I have a problem with some of my movies' playbacks on my Nano 5g. Though working perfectly fine on both my computer, and my iPod video, on my Nano some videos are slightly cut off on the right of the screen, I'm missing about 10% of the video due to the cut off. Though technically I should still be able to watch the movies fine, it niggles me and inhibits my full enjoyment of the videos. Is there any way I can crop or rescale the movie so it will fit properly on my screen? Thanks
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Go to the video settings (iPod nano) and turn off fit to screen.
Click to download iPod nano (5th generation) - User Guide
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Go to the video settings (iPod nano) and turn off fit to screen.
Click to download iPod nano (5th generation) - User Guide
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Apreciated - Sam.
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No problem. Have you tried this iPod on another computer?
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