My iPod is stupid. Around this time last year it did exactly the same thing as it's done today. It deleted everything on itself but decided to tell me I still only had around 4gig of 15gig free even though not a single track was on there. What the hell? I've got all my stuff back on (did it on the bus in fact... *cough*) but still, it's pretty stupid. Can't work out why it does it either. Anyone else ever had this issue?
I have. Mine ended up going all stupid after that though, it would randomly restart, get loads of write errors, and show the folder with the exclamation mark often. I spent about 6 months persuading apple to pick it up, in which time they did twice and sent it back with no fault found even though it wouldn't play a single tune. They finally replaced it just recently though. My guess is it's a bad HDD that causes the problem.
I've had tons of problems with things like this from my iPod. What I can see that it does is that it loses all record of the songs in it's file system, but they songs are still "there", in their messed up organizing that the Apple iPod file system is. Hoping that when the Linux iPod OS is out it'll be much easier to work with
I had my iPod freeze on me. Ironically enough, I was outside in freakin cold weather at the time. And on some of my longer songs, it'll random onto the next one with some amount of time remaining (sometimes quite obvious... mid-word ) I've got the extended warrantee anyways till like xmas 06 so I'll make sure to use it before then. Hopefully it'll be an upgrade to a color screen and bigger HDD (gen5?)
Exactly what happened on mine. Tried to play a song that was 'still there' and it just skipped through every track on the album and returned to the main screen. After a soft reset (hold Menu & Play/Pause) it jerked back into life with no tracks displayed at all... Although the info screen still showed about 11gig in use. Crazy. Good job I had my Powerbook on me... I can't stand 'normal life' without sweet sweet cacophony and abrasive noise in my ears.
Hmmmm...so iPod HDDs get bad File Allocation Tables? Iiiinnnterresting...so glad I stopped by and read this!
no bad FAT - the music DB file just gets fisted. could be the sign of a dying HDD, but then again probably not. there are apps out there that let you rebuild the DB on the ipod without spending the time to re-sync it.
Hi, I've had my iPod for about a year now. Still working perfectly, battery life is still alright. I haven't had any problems as discribed here.. I recently reformatted it for Mac but sadly enough I can't use it as an external hard drive on my PC anymore.. L
I think something similar/exactly the same has just happened to my iPod Can't see any of the songs on it but I can see the files browsing through it as a drive in windows. I'll have a look for an app that can re-build the dbase before I format and start from scratch.
