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Devices => Androids and other portables => Topic started by: tlongacre on May 06, 2005, 01:27:16 pm

Title: Initialize iPod crashes MC11.258
Post by: tlongacre on May 06, 2005, 01:27:16 pm

hmm, I'm having all sorts of trouble with my iPod now. BTW, used my Creative Muvo N2000 with MC11 and it worked perfectly (for the first time in a long time). . .

The iPod is working fine with iTunes.

The current show stopper is -- I plug in the iPod, open MC and click on Drives/Devices. It says "Initializing handheld" and then crashes (Media Core error). hmmph.

Anyone got any ideas how to proceed?

Thx.

 -Tracy

Title: Re: Initialize iPod crashes MC11.258
Post by: SteveG on May 06, 2005, 02:39:34 pm

Tracy,

Delete your iTunesDB from your iPod (using Explorer you will find it in \iPod_Control\iTunes) and then run MC. You will not see any files on iPod but should not crash. From there, either reinitialize (and lose everything) or right click and do a rebuild db from iPod.

Steve

Title: Re: Initialize iPod crashes MC11.258
Post by: tlongacre on May 07, 2005, 12:18:13 pm

that worked, but see my other message for a bigger problem.

Title: Re: Initialize iPod crashes MC11.258
Post by: jims on May 09, 2005, 10:09:56 am

I'm having this same problem.  I've been using Media Center 10 for a few months and it worked great.  Now after installing Media Center 11, I click on Drives and Devices, it says 'Analyzing Devices', then it crashes with "Media Center has encountered a problem and needs to close...".  I tried deleting the iTunesDB, but it still happens, and the iTunesDB shows back up as a 1kb file.

Title: Re: Initialize iPod crashes MC11.258
Post by: jims on May 09, 2005, 10:19:14 am

I didn't realize that iTunes was running, that's why the iTunesDB file showed back up.  So I quit iTunes, deleted the iTunesDB, but MC11 still has the same problem.

Title: Re: Initialize iPod crashes MC11.258
Post by: jims on May 09, 2005, 10:32:46 am

Ok, I got it to work by deleting the iTunesDB, ejecting the iPod from Explorer and reconnecting the iPod.

Title: Re: Initialize iPod crashes MC11.258
Post by: SteveG on May 09, 2005, 12:39:47 pm

jims,

Thanks for posting the followup.

Steve