Gen2 iPOD Firewire don't fit new iMAC

This is goofy. The Firewire connector from our Gen2 (circa 2003) iPOD is larger than the current Firewire plug on the back of my new iMAC


What can I do?

Tom

Was going to do a little graphic since I don't have either of those pieces of equipment, but found someone who's already done some of it - link.

Am only guessing you need the 6 to 9 pin adapter.


can't really tell what your cable has in the pic.

Use google images and you'll pretty quick be able to verify whether you have 4, 6 or 9 pin and which adapter you need.

Use a USB connector instead. You can buy one for $25 from Target and it also includes an AC power adapter|charger and small cable for the Shuffle. It's made by Belkin. I've bought two so far and they work fine.

Thanks guys, I'll look into buying a new cable. So far "switching" has been harder than I thought. Still can't figure out how to get all my photo's off my external HD and into iPhoto.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Tom

TomServo said:

Thanks guys, I'll look into buying a new cable. So far "switching" has been harder than I thought. Still can't figure out how to get all my photo's off my external HD and into iPhoto.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Tom

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Plug in your external hard drive and navigate to where you saved your pictures. They could be in a folder called "Pictures". Drag all of them in to iPhoto and your set!

roflitskyle said:

Plug in your external hard drive and navigate to where you saved your pictures. They could be in a folder called "Pictures". Drag all of them in to iPhoto and your set!

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All my photo's are in a Folder labeled My Pictures which is just under the iPhoto folder. Do I drag the whole folder?

Tom

What you do is either open iPhoto, open the pictures folder and highlight (select all) of the photos and drag them into the iPhoto window, or, if you have iPhoto as a dock icon, just drag them onto that.

EDIT:
Can someone please describe what I have a little more clearly?
I'm not sure that I have done the best job of it!

Your 2nd Gen iPod is only going to charge up via Firewire, you will not be able to transfer from iTunes to it.
I discovered this when buying my iMac. My old 2nd Gen iPod was only able to transfer via USB, and man it took forever. 20GB took 24 hours or so, ridiculous.
Apple are to blame, they disabled the Firewire support for older iPods,
Save yourself the money on a cable. I ended up upgrading my iPod in the end, rather than be saddled with terminally slow transfers.

Kevriano said:

Your 2nd Gen iPod is only going to charge up via Firewire, you will not be able to transfer from iTunes to it.
I discovered this when buying my iMac. My old 2nd Gen iPod was only able to transfer via USB, and man it took forever. 20GB took 24 hours or so, ridiculous.
Apple are to blame, they disabled the Firewire support for older iPods,
Save yourself the money on a cable. I ended up upgrading my iPod in the end, rather than be saddled with terminally slow transfers.

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I could do that but I hate throwing away a perfectly good and functioning iPOD especially since it's my wife's who travels frequently.

I hate to say this but I may just keep my perfectly working 5 year old Dell PC and use that for my MS Games/Office apps I need (Access/Project) and to keep her iPOD up to date.

I heard Apple gets you on the "MUST UPGRADE" treadmill but I didn't think it was due to physically changing something I thought was a standard like HDMI or USB jack sizes.

Thanks for the reality check. Looks like instead of having a neat and tidy home office it's going to look like some geeks lab.

Tom

Oh not suggesting you upgrade, just making you aware that your transfers are going to be slooooooooooooooow! It's not so bad after the initial sync, when you have all of your library to transfer, and I put up with it for about a year, but ultimately it was time to upgrade anyway.
As a footnote I wrote in to a tech magazine (T3) about my annoyance with Apple for doing this, git letter of the month, and won a portable dvd player with built in DVB tuner!

6string said:

What you do is either open iPhoto, open the pictures folder and highlight (select all) of the photos and drag them into the iPhoto window, or, if you have iPhoto as a dock icon, just drag them onto that.

EDIT:
Can someone please describe what I have a little more clearly?
I'm not sure that I have done the best job of it!

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Thanks for the tip - it worked like a charm. Slowing I'm getting all my files off my external HD. I assume the same procedure will work for all my MS Office files too?

Tom

Mac is all about drag and drop.... I love that about it

I like to open new finder windows to do that.
Command N to open a new finder window.

Say you have a finder window open, and you have documents on your external HD selected, click command N and this will open a new finder window.
On that new window, select your home folder (Tom), then documents, and drag all the documents from your documents folder from your external drive, hold it over your documents folder in the home folder for a second until that folder highlights, and then drop it into that folder.

I recommend this:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/

Here's a little something from you tube.
YouTube - Drag and Drop on your Mac

It's late here in OZ, but hopefully more folks here chime in with a little more on the drag and drop or more

6string said:

Mac is all about drag and drop.... I love that about it

I like to open new finder windows to do that.
Command N to open a new finder window.

Say you have a finder window open, and you have documents on your external HD selected, click command N and this will open a new finder window.
On that new window, select your home folder (Tom), then documents, and drag all the documents from your documents folder from your external drive, hold it over your documents folder in the home folder for a second until that folder highlights, and then drop it into that folder.

I recommend this:
Apple - Find Out How - Mac Basics

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That was the little secret I needed. Can't thank you enough.

Tom