Comments on: Copy Music Off of Your iPod in Five Easy Steps http://brent.kearneys.ca/2009/04/19/copy-music-off-of-your-ipod-in-five-easy-steps/ Health, Fitness, Technology, and Other Interests Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rick Dye http://brent.kearneys.ca/2009/04/19/copy-music-off-of-your-ipod-in-five-easy-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-639 Rick Dye Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:52:17 +0000 http://brent.kearneys.ca/?p=1092#comment-639 You are da' man... chmod and or chflags did the trick! thanks so much! You are da’ man… chmod and or chflags did the trick! thanks so much!

]]> By: Brent http://brent.kearneys.ca/2009/04/19/copy-music-off-of-your-ipod-in-five-easy-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-637 Brent Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:24:51 +0000 http://brent.kearneys.ca/?p=1092#comment-637 Hi Rick, Assuming that you have the folder location correct, try changing permissions on all files in your "tempitunes" folder, with: chmod -R +rw tempitunes sudo chflags -R nohidden,nouchg,noschg tempitunes Hi Rick,

Assuming that you have the folder location correct, try changing permissions on all files in your “tempitunes” folder, with:

chmod -R +rw tempitunes
sudo chflags -R nohidden,nouchg,noschg tempitunes

]]> By: Rick Dye http://brent.kearneys.ca/2009/04/19/copy-music-off-of-your-ipod-in-five-easy-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-636 Rick Dye Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:51:37 +0000 http://brent.kearneys.ca/?p=1092#comment-636 If this becomes too much of a hassle, in order to help my son, I wouldn't mind buying an app, I just want to be absolutely sure I am not buying anything that will load spyware, etc on my PC (or Mac.) If this becomes too much of a hassle, in order to help my son, I wouldn’t mind buying an app, I just want to be absolutely sure I am not buying anything that will load spyware, etc on my PC (or Mac.)

]]> By: Rick Dye http://brent.kearneys.ca/2009/04/19/copy-music-off-of-your-ipod-in-five-easy-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-635 Rick Dye Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:49:44 +0000 http://brent.kearneys.ca/?p=1092#comment-635 Brent, Thanks for writing back. In Step 4, when you use "...desktop/itunes" I used "///desktop/tempitunes" This is where the files were copied off of the ipod. If I use finder to go to "desktop" I see the "tempitunes" directory. If I right-mouseclick on "tempitunes" and select "get info" I see that it is a folder that contains 9.66 GB on disk for 0 items? I I clcik on that directory, it looks empty. If I drag the folder to iTunes… nothing happens. If I open a terminal session and go to the desktop/tempitunes directory and run the "ls" command I see the sub folders "F00" "F05" F"10" etc... and Mp3 and M4a files are in each of these. Am I in some sort of "permissions" hell? Rick Brent,

Thanks for writing back. In Step 4, when you use “…desktop/itunes” I used “///desktop/tempitunes” This is where the files were copied off of the ipod. If I use finder to go to “desktop” I see the “tempitunes” directory. If I right-mouseclick on “tempitunes” and select “get info” I see that it is a folder that contains 9.66 GB on disk for 0 items? I I clcik on that directory, it looks empty. If I drag the folder to iTunes… nothing happens. If I open a terminal session and go to the desktop/tempitunes directory and run the “ls” command I see the sub folders “F00″ “F05″ F”10″ etc… and Mp3 and M4a files are in each of these. Am I in some sort of “permissions” hell? Rick

]]> By: Brent http://brent.kearneys.ca/2009/04/19/copy-music-off-of-your-ipod-in-five-easy-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-621 Brent Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:44:08 +0000 http://brent.kearneys.ca/?p=1092#comment-621 Hi Rick, I think it's Alt that you're supposed to hold down when starting iTunes, to create a new library. Did you follow step 3, above, to set the import location to the new library, and to copy the files on import? I'm not sure what you mean about the desktop folder looking empty through Finder. If it's empty, then how do you "hit info on the folder"? Cheers Brent Hi Rick,

I think it’s Alt that you’re supposed to hold down when starting iTunes, to create a new library. Did you follow step 3, above, to set the import location to the new library, and to copy the files on import?

I’m not sure what you mean about the desktop folder looking empty through Finder. If it’s empty, then how do you “hit info on the folder”?

Cheers
Brent

]]> By: Rick Dye http://brent.kearneys.ca/2009/04/19/copy-music-off-of-your-ipod-in-five-easy-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-620 Rick Dye Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:17:47 +0000 http://brent.kearneys.ca/?p=1092#comment-620 My son's PC crapped out and we are desperate. I used your method to copy the files to a folder on my iMac desktop. I created an empty library (press apple button while opening iTunes.) I drag the folder to iTunes... and nothing happens. My desktop folder looks empy when I view it through finder but when I hit info on the folder it has 9.6 GB in it and an "ls" in a terminal session shows the sub folders and Mp3 and M4a files are there. Any ideas would be appreciated. Rick My son’s PC crapped out and we are desperate. I used your method to copy the files to a folder on my iMac desktop. I created an empty library (press apple button while opening iTunes.) I drag the folder to iTunes… and nothing happens. My desktop folder looks empy when I view it through finder but when I hit info on the folder it has 9.6 GB in it and an “ls” in a terminal session shows the sub folders and Mp3 and M4a files are there. Any ideas would be appreciated. Rick

]]> By: Johannes Gorset http://brent.kearneys.ca/2009/04/19/copy-music-off-of-your-ipod-in-five-easy-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-595 Johannes Gorset Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:14:34 +0000 http://brent.kearneys.ca/?p=1092#comment-595 ooh, that's nice. There's an application that used to do the same thing (well, except it would get the names right), but I don't think it works with the latest iPod firmware update. This should prove useful. ooh, that’s nice. There’s an application that used to do the same thing (well, except it would get the names right), but I don’t think it works with the latest iPod firmware update. This should prove useful.

]]> By: Brent http://brent.kearneys.ca/2009/04/19/copy-music-off-of-your-ipod-in-five-easy-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-592 Brent Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:48:44 +0000 http://brent.kearneys.ca/?p=1092#comment-592 A note on the semi-colon thing: I added the seemingly useless ';' to the end of the command line so that people don't select the end of the line, which would include an end-of-line character in the command, which is the same as pressing the Enter key. Then there wouldn't be the opportunity to backspace and replace "My iPod" with the real name of the iPod. A note on the semi-colon thing: I added the seemingly useless ‘;’ to the end of the command line so that people don’t select the end of the line, which would include an end-of-line character in the command, which is the same as pressing the Enter key. Then there wouldn’t be the opportunity to backspace and replace “My iPod” with the real name of the iPod.

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