Hello MacForums,
This is my first post on MacForums and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that someone out there might be able to suggest a way through.
I have an 80GB iPod Classic which I've owned for about 10 or 11 years. A few weeks ago, whilst connecting it to my eight-year-old iMac a message appeared on the monitor screen saying 'The iPod "IPOD" cannot be synced because it cannot be read from or written to."
Although I don't know how to get out of this problem I think I know how I got into it: Just prior to receiving that message I plugged the iPod into the Mac but fumbled it - I didn't properly insert the lead, there may even have been a spark, I'm not sure. Anyway, the result was that all 16,300 songs on the iPod disappeared.
At least the iMac and iPod were still talking to one another at that time so I reconnected the two properly this time. No error messages appeared. Unable to locate the iPod's user guide (which I have since found) I took a chance and simply dragged my songs from the Mac onto the iPod carefully, a few hundred at a time. It seemed to work. I even recreated some of my playlists on the iPod.
Then, about two weeks ago I tried to create a new playlist on the iPod. It appeared to have taken but that's when I started getting the above message about being unable to sync the iPod. The new playlist disappeared immediately and the Mac and iPod would no longer speak to each other. My son checked the situation and found that the iMac was telling him that my iPod was now full with 17,599 songs! But I have not added another 1,300 songs to the iPod in recent weeks and the iPod itself tells me it contains only the original 16,300 songs.
So there we are: How do I get around the sync problem and false readings and return to those happy times before I apparently blew the entire lot? Indeed CAN I get around it?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
This is my first post on MacForums and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that someone out there might be able to suggest a way through.
I have an 80GB iPod Classic which I've owned for about 10 or 11 years. A few weeks ago, whilst connecting it to my eight-year-old iMac a message appeared on the monitor screen saying 'The iPod "IPOD" cannot be synced because it cannot be read from or written to."
Although I don't know how to get out of this problem I think I know how I got into it: Just prior to receiving that message I plugged the iPod into the Mac but fumbled it - I didn't properly insert the lead, there may even have been a spark, I'm not sure. Anyway, the result was that all 16,300 songs on the iPod disappeared.
At least the iMac and iPod were still talking to one another at that time so I reconnected the two properly this time. No error messages appeared. Unable to locate the iPod's user guide (which I have since found) I took a chance and simply dragged my songs from the Mac onto the iPod carefully, a few hundred at a time. It seemed to work. I even recreated some of my playlists on the iPod.
Then, about two weeks ago I tried to create a new playlist on the iPod. It appeared to have taken but that's when I started getting the above message about being unable to sync the iPod. The new playlist disappeared immediately and the Mac and iPod would no longer speak to each other. My son checked the situation and found that the iMac was telling him that my iPod was now full with 17,599 songs! But I have not added another 1,300 songs to the iPod in recent weeks and the iPod itself tells me it contains only the original 16,300 songs.
So there we are: How do I get around the sync problem and false readings and return to those happy times before I apparently blew the entire lot? Indeed CAN I get around it?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.