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  3. February 2009

Re: iTunes Sync SNAFU

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pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/23/2009 03:09:06 PM:

You can format it as a normal USB-disk in any non-iTunified PC, that should clear it completely. Then your iTunes should reformat it and find that it knew it already and resyncrhonize.

I could do that but would that really address the problem? Does the iPod or the PC decide what needs to be sent to the iPod? My guess would be the PC. Technically, I suppose that the PC could function as an FTP server and the iPod compares what it has against folders on the PC but that would require more intelligence on the iPod side.

Under Windows the iPod behaves like a rather bright USB disk which is formatted with FAT32 (IIRC). The whole synchronization process is a matter of moving files around, and if one or more of the files on the iPod is broken you have the problem (FAT32 is not journaled).

So, yes, I believe it would address the problem.


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