Trashed iPod
May 16th, 2005
Excuse the photo – it was sunny and Stuart and I had been drinking wine! The other day my iPod crashed quite entertainingly. I used a linux program that I hadn’t used before to add and remove some songs and it all seemed to work fine. Then I plugged it into Jonathan’s Mac to charge it up, but after a few hours iTunes popped up and told us that it had detected a new iPod. All a bit strange and we also noticed that the iPod was getting very toasty, so we unmounted it and pulled the plug. I had a quick look to make sure everything was still intact (you know, just in case), but it wasn’t! I couldn’t see any music and resetting the device didn’t help. The ‘About’ screen told me there was only 1.2gig free and (usefully) told me that the iPod had renamed itself from “Mark’s iPod” to “Trashe~1”, which I take to mean “Trashed”. I don’t know what caused this – the linux program, or plugging it into the Mac (I’d be surprised, even though it is FAT formatted) but I guess there may be a case for either. Maybe Apple have a sense of humour if nothing else.
Apple stuff really is as good as everyone says, it even knows when it’s screwed. </sarcasm> ;)
July 9th, 2005 at 08:39 PM
Virus? Virus writers have the best senses of humor of all.
Hope you can get it back up and running!!
July 18th, 2005 at 09:28 PM
Apple were reasonably quick at sending me out a new iPod, which is to their credit. Unfortunately, it still resets itself whenever you leave it too long and it can’t do many very useful things, but at least it’s a lot more stable than it was and is actually playing music properly now.