Ancient Observer
14th Jul 2011, 11:27
Just one to file away should you need it......
Ipod/itunes tip for non-techies.
Bought 2nd daughter a new ipod touch recently, to replace a dead ipod whatever. Connected it to our home pc (XP, SP3, itunes 10.3.1) and all worked as one expects.
Then, 2nd daughter tried to connect it to her machine (Vista, itunes 8 something). Itunes just would not recognise the ipod. As she's got 28Gb of tunes on the pc, and wanted many of them on the ipod, we needed to fix that.
First thought - update itunes to 10.3.1.
The "itunes update" server was "not availaible right now, check your Internet connection or come back later"
it said that for about 2 hours.
Googled the problem.
There are lots of people who have this problem (itunes not recognising ipods/ipads etc). Thus, there are lots of competing solutions.
Even the Apple help sites give different solutions, depending on which webpage you end up on.
Spent hours doing what Apple said - mucking about with msconfig, services, and various bits of pcs that I don't like to deal with. God knows what changes I made!!! none of them helped at all.
A casual comment from a technically competent mate about "drivers" sent me looking for drivers. Huh! Apple don't want non-techies like me to know where these are.
Item no. 173 in the Apple list of things you might do is to delete itunes and Quicktime, and to re-install a new version from their website.
Eventually, this is what I did.
I simply used the add/remove feature - or whatever Vista calls it,
1.Backed up the music to an external disk.
2.Removed the existing version of itunes and quicktime using add/remove.
3. Downloaded 10.3.1. (July 2011) from the website.
......it worked, first time. Quicker than all the pratting around that I'd already done. .
Wish I'd done that first time!
Ipod/itunes tip for non-techies.
Bought 2nd daughter a new ipod touch recently, to replace a dead ipod whatever. Connected it to our home pc (XP, SP3, itunes 10.3.1) and all worked as one expects.
Then, 2nd daughter tried to connect it to her machine (Vista, itunes 8 something). Itunes just would not recognise the ipod. As she's got 28Gb of tunes on the pc, and wanted many of them on the ipod, we needed to fix that.
First thought - update itunes to 10.3.1.
The "itunes update" server was "not availaible right now, check your Internet connection or come back later"
it said that for about 2 hours.
Googled the problem.
There are lots of people who have this problem (itunes not recognising ipods/ipads etc). Thus, there are lots of competing solutions.
Even the Apple help sites give different solutions, depending on which webpage you end up on.
Spent hours doing what Apple said - mucking about with msconfig, services, and various bits of pcs that I don't like to deal with. God knows what changes I made!!! none of them helped at all.
A casual comment from a technically competent mate about "drivers" sent me looking for drivers. Huh! Apple don't want non-techies like me to know where these are.
Item no. 173 in the Apple list of things you might do is to delete itunes and Quicktime, and to re-install a new version from their website.
Eventually, this is what I did.
I simply used the add/remove feature - or whatever Vista calls it,
1.Backed up the music to an external disk.
2.Removed the existing version of itunes and quicktime using add/remove.
3. Downloaded 10.3.1. (July 2011) from the website.
......it worked, first time. Quicker than all the pratting around that I'd already done. .
Wish I'd done that first time!