Re: [Gtkpod-questions] several problems (initialization, deleting songs, reading)

[Javier K. <jk...@us...>]

Hi,

El jue, 23-08-2007 a las 13:36 -0400, George Nychis escribi=C3=B3:

> So I decided to try and re-initialize the ipod and start over.  Almost=20
> every website that has information about gtkpod says it can initialize=20
> an ipod.  But, I can't figure out how exactly to do this and i can't=20
> find documentation.

You usually do this with iTunes, which is Apple's software to manage the
iPod. It might sound strange, but until I used it to re-initialize my
iPod, I kept having really bad stability issues with the iPod on Linux.
Namely, that the USB driver kept kicking the device out during
transfers, causing lost files, corrupt databases and more.

> So what I tried to do was right click on the ipod, and hit delete all=20
> songs.  This worked, such that they no longer show up in the ipod menus.=20
>   However, it didn't seem to actually remove the music as the free space=20
> is not back to ~80GB, it's still at only 35GB free space.  Browsing=20
> through the ipod directories it seems as though all of the music is=20
> still there.
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> Whenever I try to re-add my music, i get an out of space error, as the=20
> original space was never cleared.
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> So, how do i re-initialize it and truly clear everything off of it?

Try dosfsck from package dosfstools. You can always use mkdosfs to
format the drive.

> Secondly, does anyone have any insight as to why gtkpod was originally=20
> not importing my music from the ipod correctly?

Sorry, George, I have no clue.

Cheers,
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Javier Kohen <jk...@us...>
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