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iTunes Error -48

Thanks, madofrain. That's really helpful. He has a lot of fake duplicates because of so many live shows, but he does have a PC so we'll try that option first and hope it doesn't take long for the fix to come along. :)

madofrain said:
Morning. yup Jacksam is right. formatting your pod to fat32 will also resolve it. By plugging your pod into a windows machine it will reformat it with windows firmware which your mac can still read. It'll just be slower transferring your files to it. Some people have reported some buggy behaviour but its still an option as the issue is just with the mac firmware.
Greenegirl:
Hello! The fix i applied to my machine involved migrating *all* of my files to a new user account under U.S english. I eventually deleted the old UK one. I synced my mail, adress, bookmarks etc with a trial .mac account and the rest of my files were moved to the 'shared' folder so i could access them with the new US english user i created.
A chap on the apple boards took it a stage further and completly reformatted his ibook. I just wanted to see if I could get away with a fix that side stepped the need to backup my data. Turns out it worked. :O) Its important that you leave behind the itunes xml and librabry files from the old user. The idea behind the fix it to rewrite these xml files in U.S date format.
Its also important to note that the -48 error in os 9 is listed in Apple's tech notes as duplicate related. So make sure you weed out ANY duplicate song names! even if they're live or single versions. I just renamed mine..

Granted its all alot of effort, but I was off work and had some time on my hands. The tech support agent assigned to this issue has reported that he's replictaed the error in the apple labs, so if all the user moving/file renaming etc seems a bit daunting there should be an apple firmware fix on the horizon..

P.S oh you might want to remove any odd charachters *^/ etc from ALL the song tags..comments,album, track title etc..These are xml control charachters and some people think they may be part of the problem. If you want any further help just ask. I'm away as of Saturday for New years celebrations but i'll be around until then.
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Thanks Madofrain. I have spent three days on this and even took it to my local Apple store to the Genuis Bar, who advised on a reformat and install of OS X. However, this still did not fix it. Grrrrrr.

Anyway, after applying your fix to create a new user account, my iPod Nano 4G 2 gen is now working with iTunes 7.0.2.

BTW, I also came across a problem with my Norton Anti Virus and iTunes. Having Nortin enabled can make it nigh on impossible to eject the ipod as norton seems to hook into the device to scan it but does not disconnect after it has scanned. to resolve, disable auto connect on Norton and resart the system.
 
Here's another solution that is working for me so far:

  • Connect your iPod. In iTunes, turn on "Enable disk use", then press "Apply". Ignore any errors. Quit iTunes. Your iPod should remain mounted on the desktop.
  • Open Disk Utility. Select Your iPod and erase it using the format "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)", with Mac OS 9 drivers turned off.
  • Open iTunes and restore your iPod. Set it up as you wish, but make sure to deselect the "Open iTunes when this iPod is connected" option.
  • From now on, every time you want to connect your iPod, first make sure that iTunes isn't running. Open Disk Utility, select your iPod, and click "Repair Disk". Once you've done that you can launch iTunes and it will sync with your iPod.
 
Thanks for the help guys, I've used boot camp to reformat it under Windows and it seems to have done the trick.
 
The Windows formatting is still working fine for me, but its bloody slow when changing tracks.
 
Hi all,

Again, I'm suffering with this issue too. However, one odd thing that happend last night when I was doing yet another restore of the 80gb ipod, (takes ages)! That all my album art was muddled up!

e.g. Chris Moyles was the cover of Razorlight songs...Muse Tracks had taken a shine to the album art from my DVD collection...and the tracks I just sync'd had no album art what so ever! Yet all is fine in the relm of itunes on my Mac etc.

Just to confirm if my "symptoms" fit the general trend:

iPod: 80GB 5.5G
Origionally Windows V1.2
But later formatted to Mac Journaled and upgraded to V1.2.1 upon purchasing my first Mac!

Mac:
C2D 17" MBP
Ipod in a Dock through USB (not that it should make a difference)
 
Apple's official solution to -48 error

Apple has an official solution to the -48 error (-48 is a terrible thing to search for, couldn't they name errors in a way that doesn't upset search engines).
Apparently I have to change my time zone to Eastern Pacific, do a complete restore :( (takes a while on an 80GB iPod) and then I'm free to move back to UK time.
I didn't see anyone else mention this solution and hope it is the correct version of the localization trick previously tried by some people (now that is too much effort).
I wonder if this will also prevent my iPod from displaying podcast dates on the iPod in the silly US little-middlian fashion (eg 01-22-2007 instead of big-edian 22-01-2007), gets me confused on the first 12 days of the month especially since the dates are correctly formatted in iTunes.
 
please help

ok what do i do if i am on a PC not a mac? pleaaaase help me as this -48 thing is really bugging me! thanks :)
 
iTunes Error -48

Hi, I'm getting almost exactly the same symptoms, but with error -41. Was there a full resolution to this problem?

I have tried restore (more times than I care to mention) and as I have a lot of video from EyeTV, it takes about 3hrs each time!.

I'll try the windows format option tonight, and I think that the original error occurred during a a sync with a dodgy cable. The sync seemed to work, but I developed the error.

Eventually, I end up with the 'manually manage music and video' selected, and last time this happened, it also selected 'use as external disk' without my selecting it.

Disk error reported errors, but by that time it was too late, and now I have restored and removed all non-audio for now.

I have had this previously, but that seemed to be resolved when the latest firmware was released.

Please let me know if this fault was resolved, and how.

Thanks.

(ipod 5.5G 80GB, 17" iMac 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo.)
 
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