No thank YOU! The help is appreciated...sometimes I feel like I'm hijacking this thread for my own nefarious purposes
So the reinitialise/sync worked (no restore) all songs, all playlists OK. (Still on 10.0.90)
Although... I had ripped/imported the sublime "Zero 7" album 'When It Falls' before doing the above, before I noticed that one track had an incorrect artist name of "Zero7" so I changed it back to "Zero 7" & resync'ed - 1 extra file on iPod, as 'delete unselected' was unchecked. Cool!
Tried a sync with 'delete unselected' checked, deleted the incorrect "Zero 7" & everything worked fine! Joy! Note this is the 1st time that this has worked correctly since I started having problems.
Next I tried adding a basic Top100 smartlist, that was added fine when iPod sync'ed.
Wake up Steve! I'm getting to the point!
However, should I try & take the tick out of 'Imported this week' smartlist the sync dialog still reverts back to 35Gb free after sync.
Now, based on previous, I'd say that when I take the tick out of 'Imported this week' & resync, with 'delete unselected from HH' checked, then ALL bar 100 files will be lost, note the few remaining files on iPod appear in the other smartlists that are still on iPod.
As everything seems to be working correctly. I'm thinking of giving up for the night.
What did I do? Nothing, bar initialise & resync the same way I had been doing all weekend. That's computers for ya.
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One thing I did notice, I also imported a track by "missfrenchie" & I noticed that I have 3 different spellings of her name on 3 tracks, in both MC & therefore iPod.
So on MC & iPod there are 3 entries under 'Artist' ie:
missfrenchie
Missfrenchie &
Miss Frenchie
If I go to 'Browse' & select 'Artists' & view 'All' on iPod these 3 separate artists all list the same 3 tracks,
they also play the same 3 tracks, like they all link to the same files.
I would have expected iPod to report 3 Artists, with one track each...not all (different) Artists linking to the same 3 tracks.
Same happened with the rogue "Zero 7" track mentioned above. MC also lists all 3 when searching on just 'missfrenchie' but I figure that cos MC's search is fairly smart.
Don't know if this is anyway significant or expected behaviour, but I thought I'd add it; I'll leave 'em be for the moment, just in case...