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From: John Varela on 16 Mar 2010 17:39
In the Apple forum at:

http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=204

is a thread titled "After iTunes 9 upgrade iPod Classic is corrupt
without ability to restore".

Hundreds of users report that an attempt to sync an iPod Classic
with iTunes 9 results in a corrupted hard drive on the iPod, turning
the iPod into a useless brick.

This reached out and bit me yesterday. My wife's 80 GB iPod Classic
is always in the car, so I hadn't synched it since last summer.
Without going into the gory details--there are plenty of variants on
the same story in the forum cited above--I now find that the iPod
will not turn off, it is continuously playing music, pressing the
Menu button only brings up the Do Not Disconnect display [1], and
the iPod is not recognized in iTunes nor by the Finder. Nor by
Windows 7, for that matter. Nor Linux.

It seems clear that iTunes 9 is at fault, and Apple is doing nothing
about it.

I am outraged.

I am also amazed that there has been nothing (that I have noticed)
about this on the news groups or in the press.

In any case, be warned: if you have an iPod Classic do NOT "upgrade"
to iTunes 9.


[1] If it says "Do Not Disconnect", doesn't that mean it's in hard
drive mode? But it's playing music.

--
John Varela

From: nospam on 16 Mar 2010 17:49
In article <dxizd0mOwXzR-pn2-SZj6m8uhUDpd(a)localhost>, John Varela
<newlamps(a)verizon.net> wrote:

> It seems clear that iTunes 9 is at fault, and Apple is doing nothing
> about it.

it's fixed in 9.0.3

> I am also amazed that there has been nothing (that I have noticed)
> about this on the news groups or in the press.

that's because it's rare.

> In any case, be warned: if you have an iPod Classic do NOT "upgrade"
> to iTunes 9.

or more correctly, immediately update to 9.0.3.
From: Jolly Roger on 16 Mar 2010 21:24
In article <dxizd0mOwXzR-pn2-SZj6m8uhUDpd(a)localhost>,
"John Varela" <newlamps(a)verizon.net> wrote:

> In the Apple forum at:
>
> http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=204
>
> is a thread titled "After iTunes 9 upgrade iPod Classic is corrupt
> without ability to restore".
>
> Hundreds of users report that an attempt to sync an iPod Classic
> with iTunes 9 results in a corrupted hard drive on the iPod, turning
> the iPod into a useless brick.
>
> This reached out and bit me yesterday. My wife's 80 GB iPod Classic
> is always in the car, so I hadn't synched it since last summer.
> Without going into the gory details--there are plenty of variants on
> the same story in the forum cited above--I now find that the iPod
> will not turn off, it is continuously playing music, pressing the
> Menu button only brings up the Do Not Disconnect display [1], and
> the iPod is not recognized in iTunes nor by the Finder. Nor by
> Windows 7, for that matter. Nor Linux.
>
> It seems clear that iTunes 9 is at fault, and Apple is doing nothing
> about it.
>
> I am outraged.
>
> I am also amazed that there has been nothing (that I have noticed)
> about this on the news groups or in the press.
>
> In any case, be warned: if you have an iPod Classic do NOT "upgrade"
> to iTunes 9.
>
>
> [1] If it says "Do Not Disconnect", doesn't that mean it's in hard
> drive mode? But it's playing music.

I have an iPod Classic. This should be interesting. : )

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From: John Varela on 16 Mar 2010 21:55
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:49:01 UTC, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid>
wrote:

> In article <dxizd0mOwXzR-pn2-SZj6m8uhUDpd(a)localhost>, John Varela
> <newlamps(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > It seems clear that iTunes 9 is at fault, and Apple is doing nothing
> > about it.
>
> it's fixed in 9.0.3

No it's not. 9.0.3 is the version that did it to me.

> > I am also amazed that there has been nothing (that I have noticed)
> > about this on the news groups or in the press.
>
> that's because it's rare.
>
> > In any case, be warned: if you have an iPod Classic do NOT "upgrade"
> > to iTunes 9.
>
> or more correctly, immediately update to 9.0.3.


--
John Varela

From: John Varela on 16 Mar 2010 22:08
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:24:01 UTC, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com>
wrote:

> In article <dxizd0mOwXzR-pn2-SZj6m8uhUDpd(a)localhost>,
> "John Varela" <newlamps(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > In the Apple forum at:
> >
> > http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=204
> >
> > is a thread titled "After iTunes 9 upgrade iPod Classic is corrupt
> > without ability to restore".
> >
> > Hundreds of users report that an attempt to sync an iPod Classic
> > with iTunes 9 results in a corrupted hard drive on the iPod, turning
> > the iPod into a useless brick.
> >
> > This reached out and bit me yesterday. My wife's 80 GB iPod Classic
> > is always in the car, so I hadn't synched it since last summer.
> > Without going into the gory details--there are plenty of variants on
> > the same story in the forum cited above--I now find that the iPod
> > will not turn off, it is continuously playing music, pressing the
> > Menu button only brings up the Do Not Disconnect display [1], and
> > the iPod is not recognized in iTunes nor by the Finder. Nor by
> > Windows 7, for that matter. Nor Linux.
> >
> > It seems clear that iTunes 9 is at fault, and Apple is doing nothing
> > about it.
> >
> > I am outraged.
> >
> > I am also amazed that there has been nothing (that I have noticed)
> > about this on the news groups or in the press.
> >
> > In any case, be warned: if you have an iPod Classic do NOT "upgrade"
> > to iTunes 9.
> >
> >
> > [1] If it says "Do Not Disconnect", doesn't that mean it's in hard
> > drive mode? But it's playing music.
>
> I have an iPod Classic. This should be interesting. : )

I'd suggest you read some of the threads on the Apple iPod support
forum before you do anything.

Nospam claims the problem is rare. There are hundreds of people
complaining on the forums, and all of them have the same experience:
sailing along with no problem, upgrade to iTunes 9, try to sync, and
the iPod is screwed. What proportion of people with this problem
have the savvy to go on the forum? For every one who reports, there
are probably hundreds who don't. The total may be small compared to
the number of iPods sold, but it's still a lot of damaged units.

To those who claim no problem with iTunes 9: Are you sure? I synched
the iPod a couple of weeks ago and all seemed to go well. Looking it
over, however, I realized that the sync had not gone to completion:
there were new items on the iMac that had not made it to the iPod.
So yesterday I tried to sync again and this time it hung. I left the
iPod attached overnight and the sync still did not go to completion.
I won't bore you with the litany of things I tried, including a
restore of the iPod, but eventually it reached its present state, in
which iTunes and Finder don't recognize it.

I have an appointment at the Genius Bar tomorrow. We'll see.

--
John Varela

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