izzarina wrote:bradhurley wrote:Your iPod is supposed to update automatically; you never have to drag files to it...that's the wrong way to do it.
I did know that is automatically transfers everything once you plug it in...I had to do the whole initial registering since it was new. But, my daughter said that you don't want to have iTunes do it for you (there is a TON of other stuff in there, like A Tale of Two Cities, Lord of the Rings, and other misc. music that I find to be disagreeable
), so she clicked something that made it so I would have to do it manually. Could this be the problem?
iTunes is set up by default to automatically synch up its contents with the contents of the iPod whenever the iPod is connected to the computer. Not unlike a database replication, if you know anything about that. If you don't, don't worry about it. What that means is that anything that's on the iPod but not yet in iTunes will be moved to iTunes, and vice versa. (The movement of new music files from iTunes onto the iPod is the most common path; probably the only time you'd ever have anything on your iPod that's not already in your iTunes would be if you use your iPod as a recording device - as I do.) I do have to caveat what I've said, though, by pointing out that I don't have any experience with using iTunes in a multi-user mode, as it sounds like you may be doing together with your daughter, i.e. feeding more than one iPod from the same instance of iTunes on one computer. But my guess is that the way it would work would be to only move files from your library in iTunes onto your iPod, and from your daughter's library to her iPod. This would be based of course on how you set up your accounts in iTunes and your personal iPods in the first place.
But, as you have noticed, the default setup is to move the
entire contents of the iTunes library onto the iPod, and there are apparently files in iTunes that you don't want on your iPod. There is a way around this, however, as I found out myself because I had the same problem. I can't give you the details of how to do it, though, because i'm not sitting at my Mac right now. But if you go into the iTunes online help, the instructions are there - that's how I found them. You can select particular music files and/or playlists to be replicated or not whenever the automatic updates happen. You make the selection manually, but the update still happens automatically when you plug the iPod into the computer. You don't drag and drop anything while the iPod is connected. If your daughter knows about this, chances are she knows how to do it - or if not, she will be able to figure it out a lot quicker than you will because kids always understand computer stuff better than us old fogies do. So ask her to show you how it's done.
One other thing. If you already have stuff on your iPod that you don't want there, you can delete it directly from your iPod on a file-by-file basis via the iPod's click-wheel control, and you should do it before you plug the iPod back into your computer, not while it's plugged in.
(BTW, Bloomfield, I'm pretty sure this all works the same whether you're running iTunes on a Mac or on a Windows machine. And if for some reason it doesn't, unlike most software it should run better on the Mac than on Windows, because iTunes and the iPod both come from Apple and not from Bill Gates. But you probably already knew that, didn't you?)
my dad felt badly because he had gotten one for my sister, so he got me one too...gotta love guilt 
) . Anyway, it was dead, so I plugged it in and all of that, let it charge for a while, and bought a tune off of iTunes. Nothing big. It was still charging, but I figured that I could still put a few tunes on it (according to the resident iPod experts in Casa Izz, which would be the teenagers 
What in the WORLD did I do? Yes, I am totally computer illiterate (even on a Mac...just think of how bad it would be if I had a PC), so I have NO idea what to do to fix this, and when Mr. Izz comes home, I am sooooo dead for breaking iTunes. I did a search for mp3s and there seem to be none on the whole darn computer. There has to be a plausible, and easily fixable, explanation for this....please say that there is.
