I have been building my iPOD on PC A via MC and it does so very well, but very, very slowly. PC A is an old PC and it really dogs converting my APE files to MP3....so I was hoping to use PC B because of its speed so I setup about building PC B thus:
First, on PC A I backup my library and shut down MC.
On PC B I use add/remove programs and remove MC 11.1.9x (92 I think it was) and check mark remove reg and library data. Looking to clean off MC and do a clean install. I install MC 11.1.97 on PC B. So far so good.
I restore the library (from PC A) to PC B and MC 11.1.97 is happy. PC B is mapped to drive M with all my music. Every thing seems good. On PC B I hook up 5G iPOD 60GB (which has spent most of its life on PC A and 100% so from an MC perspective). MC recognizes iPOD; I click add to MC. Look'n good for about 5 seconds and then "no data base detected.....do you want to reinitialize" And NO, I DO NOT. Click NO. Disconnect iPOD and ensure the 3000+ tracks that PC A loaded to iPOD are still there. Yup, they are.
Long story short can I not share the iPOD between two installs of MC on two separate PC's? I was hoping to because PC B is much, much faster than PC A and would be a superior PC for converting APE to MP3. Ideas or dead end?
-- Larry
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