Weblog entry:
- Saving my iPod from iTunes
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Got the PowerBook back today. The display seems to be spot-free, although it seems the wonderful Apple-certified technicians had to format the hard drive to replace the LCD. ’Cause, you know…that makes sense.
But I digress.
Before sending my machine in for repair, I’d backed up everything to my iPod — files, mail, scripts, you name it. But once I connected my iPod back to my newly de-spotted laptop, all of my data restoration went painlessly…except, of course, of the music I’d stored on my iPod. When I opened up iTunes, an alert popped up to say that there was a “previous device connection” to my iPod (namely, my pre-repair/-format laptop), and was asked if I’d like to replace the iPod’s music files with those on my laptop. As the laptop had just been wiped clean, I interpreted this offer as “Would you like to format your iPod, ridding it of gigabytes of sweet, sweet MP3s?”
As you can’t simply browse to the audio files on your iPod through the Finder, I downloaded an application called iPod2Mac which claimed to allow one to do just that; however, while it detected my iPod successfully, it was unable to find any of the audio files I knew to be there.
Getting a bit desperate, I opened up a terminal window; after a bit of hacking around, I managed to find the answer:
$ mkdir ~/Desktop/Music/ $ cd /Volumes/[Your iPod’s name]/iPod_Control/Music/ $ cp -R Music/ ~/Desktop/Music/Once I created a folder named “Music” on my desktop, it was easy enough to copy it into my iTunes library.
I feel like I just gained half a point of hacker cred.
Okay, so maybe that’s a liberal estimate.
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- 04th day of November 2003.
- Filed under Story.
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