Posted by Spex on 12/21/07 19:43

Richard Crowley wrote:
> "Spex" wrote ...
>> Richard Crowley wrote:
>>> "Spex" wrote ...
>>>> Richard,
>>>> The default iTunes mode is for the general simpleton who has to have
>>>> iTunes sync everything automatically. Turning off sync everything
>>>> clears the iPod ready for manually updating.
>>>
>>> Yeah, people keep saying that, but I've spent only an hour
>>> trying to discover how to "turn off" this "feature". The UI
>>> design drove me so crazy that I gave up after an hour.
>>>
>>> If this is really possible, surely someone has published a web
>>> page that shows how to remove the fangs from iTunes.
>>
>> When you connect you iPod to the computer iTunes will open at the iPod
>> summary page....
>
> IME, it immediately starts doing *something* (which it doesn't
> reveal) and won't let you interrupt until *it* thinks it is done.
> There still appears to be no way of neutralizing it before you
> risk attaching your iPod. That is "user-visious" in my book.

I've never encountered that. Mac or PC or have you seen this on both
platforms?

I only have a small part of my music collection in iTunes which only
amounts to 1500 tracks so far but it loads instantaneously. Perhaps the
*doing something* is a corruption of the itunes database and it's being
rebuilt. Just guessing.

I have a PC here with iTunes on it and it takes ages to load because it
is looking for a dll that it never finds. Both iTunes and QT look for
this dll and give an error when they don't find it. I click OK the
programs load with no noticeable problems. I've never spent the time to
fix this as this PC has only one function to run combustion now and
again. Could the problem you've encountered be similar? Dunno.

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