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Devices => Androids and other portables => Topic started by: bytemyfoot on August 09, 2005, 07:25:24 pm

Title: Unable to initialize 60G iPod Photo
Post by: bytemyfoot on August 09, 2005, 07:25:24 pm

I had a 40G iPod which I used with MC, no problem, then I upgraded to a 60G iPod Photo and I can't even get it to initialize in MC, whenever I try to access the iPod through MC, it shuts down and tried to send a windows error report.  Any thoughts?

Title: Re: Unable to initialize 60G iPod Photo
Post by: SteveG on August 10, 2005, 04:27:22 pm

Try browsing to your iPod_Control\iTunes directory in Explorer and delete your iTunesDB file.

Run MC and then right click on your iPod and select 'Initialize iPod. Your iPod will be clean and you should be able to go forward.

Steve

Title: Re: Unable to initialize 60G iPod Photo
Post by: ForsakenArdor on August 29, 2005, 01:08:19 am

I've had this problem after doing the same exact upgrade.  Are you also running Win98SE?  For some reason, the iPod Photo seems to need to be undocked so it can "realign" itself after the database files are modified.  Whenever I synchronize in MC and then click on the taskbar icon to unmount, the apple logo shows up for a few seconds and if I don't take it out of the dock immediately, then the "do not disconnect" screen shows up and I have to unmount it again.  Just let your iPod's menu be accessible after unmounting and then you can mount again.  Works for me, anyway.

Title: Re: Unable to initialize 60G iPod Photo
Post by: SteveG on August 29, 2005, 08:30:07 am

ForsakenArdor,

Thanks for the tip.