The other side to the weekend was spent fixing my bloody iPod.<\/p>\n
Mid-week it stopped behaving as it should.<\/p>\n
The registry\/index somehow broke down; when I sync’d it to iTunes the iTunes display told me fibs (namely that the 30Gb iPod was full).<\/p>\n
But when I tried to navigate away from the central iPod page in iTunes the display froze and only a CTL-ALT-DEL and ‘stop iTunes process’ would give me back control of my laptop.<\/p>\n
Bloody thing.<\/p>\n
I tried multiple resyncs and they all returned the same results.<\/p>\n
I manually rebooted the iPod but that didn’t get me anywhere.<\/p>\n
So I protected the 5Gb of music and 10Gb of data files I keep on my iPod and then tried to restore the thing to factory default settings.<\/p>\n
Tried to.<\/p>\n
Yep, every time I plugged it in it did the ‘resyncing’ thing and then froze and there was no way to over-ride it.<\/p>\n
So I opened an explorer session on to the iPod, took a deep breath and deleted the control directory.<\/p>\n
Then I fired up iTunes and guess what?<\/p>\n
Straight away it started presenting me with ‘Oh-oh, Something’s Really Fucked Around Here!’ error messages.<\/p>\n
And then it got on with the business of resetting itself to factory defaults.<\/p>\n
That didn’t take long at all, but then it started importing the previous iTunes contents.<\/p>\n
That took several hours!<\/p>\n
But the whole programme of processes worked.<\/p>\n
My iTunes is healthy, my iPod is healthy and the world is sweetness and light once more.<\/p>\n
Yay!<\/p>\n
Total processing time expended on iPod reconfiguration: 27 hours.<\/p>\n
But it’s back up and running so I’m not going to complain too loudly.<\/p>\n
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