2 weeks ago, I made the mistake of upgrading to iTunes7 on my PC despite everything wrong that I've read about it. While I do own a Mac, my 2 iPods (5G and 4G w/ photo) are PC formatted for more flexibility. My wife uses the iPod w/ Photo. anyway, since I wanted to load some songs I recently downloaded into the iPod w/ Photo, I plugged it into the PC w/ the newly-installed iTunes 7.
However, since the last time anything was loaded into the iPod was still with the older iTunes version, iTunes asked if I wanted the iPod updated. naturally, i said "yes". I got the update. but the moment I tried loading the new songs into the iPod, well, everything went downhill from there. I was prompted w/: "iPod cannot be uploaded, unknown error", I tried again. another error message came up. so I disconnected it. then the iPod flashed the "see apple support" or something to that effect. I tried to Restore it. Another error message. It said something like, "your iPod is corrupted, cannot be restored"
I connected it to my Mac, w/c fortunately was able to restore it/ but now. it's Mac formatted w/c I didn't want in the first place. (oh, most of my audio/video/podcast files are stored in my PC's harddrive around 7000++) thus, my PC preference. I connected it again to my PC, w/c said that since Ipod is Mac formatted, I couldn't use it w/ the PC. It asked if I wanted it Restored again but this time, to a PC format. I said yes. It got Restored. So I tried loading some songs again. but on the 10th song, an error message came up again. and the whole process repeated itself.
I settled for it being Mac formatted, but I had to transfer all my files into an external harddrive w/c I could use w/ the Mac just so I can load the files into my now Mac formatted iPod w/ photo. This really sucks. Not only did I spend an entire evening just sorting it out, I had a perfectly good product that's been with us for almost 2 years w/ nary a problem w/c now has been corrupted for some unknown reason. bad, bad Apple.
However, since the last time anything was loaded into the iPod was still with the older iTunes version, iTunes asked if I wanted the iPod updated. naturally, i said "yes". I got the update. but the moment I tried loading the new songs into the iPod, well, everything went downhill from there. I was prompted w/: "iPod cannot be uploaded, unknown error", I tried again. another error message came up. so I disconnected it. then the iPod flashed the "see apple support" or something to that effect. I tried to Restore it. Another error message. It said something like, "your iPod is corrupted, cannot be restored"
I connected it to my Mac, w/c fortunately was able to restore it/ but now. it's Mac formatted w/c I didn't want in the first place. (oh, most of my audio/video/podcast files are stored in my PC's harddrive around 7000++) thus, my PC preference. I connected it again to my PC, w/c said that since Ipod is Mac formatted, I couldn't use it w/ the PC. It asked if I wanted it Restored again but this time, to a PC format. I said yes. It got Restored. So I tried loading some songs again. but on the 10th song, an error message came up again. and the whole process repeated itself.
I settled for it being Mac formatted, but I had to transfer all my files into an external harddrive w/c I could use w/ the Mac just so I can load the files into my now Mac formatted iPod w/ photo. This really sucks. Not only did I spend an entire evening just sorting it out, I had a perfectly good product that's been with us for almost 2 years w/ nary a problem w/c now has been corrupted for some unknown reason. bad, bad Apple.