I managed to get a little farther with the Laptop. But I am still not sync'ing. About half the time, MC will crash when first starting up (iPOD mounted) or when I mount the iPOD after it has been started. When it does recognize it, I get the message "No stored information for this device...Storing information". The whole process takes about 15-20 minutes before the iPOD appears in the tree.
I re-created my playlists and went to sync the iPOD. It allowed me to select playlists, but was reflecting my available size as zero (on the iPOD). Based on zxsix's previous post, I decided I would re-initialize the iPOD. No luck though. This command is not available for this device. I noticed that this thread points out an issue when this command is not present...does not think that there is an iPOD connected.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=23894.0So, I guess there is a problem with MC recognizing the iPOD as a real iPOD. I also checked Windows Explorer and the iPOD is NOT showing up as an available drive.
This is frustrating. I have used the combination of this laptop and external hard drive to manage my ipod for more than a year. I have varied between different programs, but each time it did work. The configuration has the external HD connected via Firewire. The iPOD is connected to the laptop through a 3rd party USB 2.0 card. In the past, I have noticed some quirkiness about the card, but it has always come through when using the iPOD.
Could there be some problem with the iPOD itself? Again it is a 30 GB 3G device. Other than the syncing issue, it appears to work fine. Last month, I performed a variety of diagnostics and could not find any problems.
Any additional advice would be appreciated.
- Rob