I assume that is what you'd call it anyways...
Yesterday, my iPod was working perfectly, with all 3400 songs and 20ish videos perfect. Then, I get home today and plug in the iPod and open up iTunes. I notice it looks like it isn't showing the playlists in the normal spot, and think nothing of it. I add an album onto the iPod, and go under the music info to change around artist and album info... and nothing but that single album is on the iPod...
I go back the startup page of iTunes and see that I have 32gigs of "other" on it. It used to be like... 3 gigs of videos, and 29 gigs of audio. Now it is all classified as "other". I had been thinking about restoring factory settings, updating, and then putting all the songs back on it, but decided it'd take too long. I saw a couple other people had that problem and the resolution was just to wipe the iPod and start again.
Luckily I had dumped all the stuff into a folder a few months ago, just as a precaution. I have about 3200 of my songs and all my videos from before, but am missing all the songs I had added later on. Glad I made that move since most of the songs on my iPod were on a much older hard drive that broke a couple years ago, as well as friends' hard drives along the way. I'll deal, but it certainly scared me at first. Also, I have been putting on these 3200 files on my iPod for the last... 8 hours or so? Still have to "determine gapless playback" on another 2100 files before it'll be done. Fun -.-
Yeah, portable HDDs seem to die somewhat easily (flash tends to last better, but it also stuffs up as well), so backing everything up to your primary HDD is always a good idea.
But yeah, it's annoying when it does occur, that you have to re-setup everything.
i had this particular problem and it was caused by the use of an older version of floola. it seems that the version i had used had somehow made the more recent itunes not be able to recognise the contents of the ipod even though they were still there. however thanks to itunes sync options all i had to do was a factory reset on the ipod and re-sync all the stuff. yeah it took a while but it did recover everything. now im not saying this is what happened but its got the very same symptoms, so either way a factory reset and re-sync would cure it. i don't think it will be the hdd packing up but it could be if the drive/ipod is quite old, then extended use would cause the hdd to fail. it happens.
one other thing just occured to me - do not fill the hdd right to capacity. it may have been that that has caused your problem. leave at least a few hundred megs to be safe for itunes useage.
lol @ 32 gigs of "other". classic. :)
it must be really pissing off when this kind of stuff happens
for me it is, however the mantra works - backup, backup, and backup again.
the only annoying thing is the resync/recopy takes an age as hellgiver has discovered.
Something similar happened with my iTouch a week or so ago, EVERYTHING was gone.... did I mentioned that I HATE iTunes?^^
its not currupted, its folder just got renamed to something with a "_2" on front of it. All you need to do is go to folder options » check 'view hidden folders & files" on your computer. Then plug your ipod in and go to the folder/file in the "itunes controls" folder then delete the "_2". All your music should be back. This is what happend to me with my iphone, but its the same with ipods. I had to find that out the hard way. >.>
By the way I recommend "Fixtunes" if your using itunes. it renames the song name/artist/ and album to the right one. Its also good if u want album covers.
Anger Wrote:i had this particular problem and it was caused by the use of an older version of floola. it seems that the version i had used had somehow made the more recent itunes not be able to recognise the contents of the ipod even though they were still there. however thanks to itunes sync options all i had to do was a factory reset on the ipod and re-sync all the stuff. yeah it took a while but it did recover everything. now im not saying this is what happened but its got the very same symptoms, so either way a factory reset and re-sync would cure it. i don't think it will be the hdd packing up but it could be if the drive/ipod is quite old, then extended use would cause the hdd to fail. it happens.
one other thing just occured to me - do not fill the hdd right to capacity. it may have been that that has caused your problem. leave at least a few hundred megs to be safe for itunes useage.
lol @ 32 gigs of "other". classic. :)
The iPod is an 80gig, and all the music is strewn about different Hard drives at different computers, with about 40% of the music on an old hard drive that has been broken for years, so I can't get that stuff back. I am just glad I backed it up using... iDump I think. Can't quite remember which program it was.
ix_stylez Wrote:its not currupted, its folder just got renamed to something with a "_2" on front of it. All you need to do is go to folder options » check 'view hidden folders & files" on your computer. Then plug your ipod in and go to the folder/file in the "itunes controls" folder then delete the "_2". All your music should be back. This is what happend to me with my iphone, but its the same with ipods. I had to find that out the hard way. >.>
By the way I recommend "Fixtunes" if your using itunes. it renames the song name/artist/ and album to the right one. Its also good if u want album covers.
That would have been nice to know, since I couldn't find any info except from a few cases in which they just had to reset the iPod. Either way, it isn't THAT big of a blow to me. At least now I'll know what to do if it happens to a friend or to me again.
having a spare hdd helps because you can just fling all yer songs on it and that's a more or less permanent backup when needed. that _2 thing - ill have to see if that's what happened with me.