From: Mark Fowler
Date: 13:39 on 08 Nov 2004
Subject: FOAD iTunes
The iPod "Klegg" is linked to another iTunes music library. Do you want
to change the link to this iTunes music library and replace all existing
songs and playlists on this iPod with those from this library
No Yes
I see this dialog *every* *single* *time* I plug my iPod into charge on my
work Mac (i.e. the one that doesn't have my music collection on it.)
Where's the sodding "never" option then? Is it totally *inconceivable* to
the people in Apple that I might have more than one computer? Or does
this totally blow their pea sized brains?
Urge. To. Kill. Rising.
From: Chris Devers
Date: 15:23 on 08 Nov 2004
Subject: Re: FOAD iTunes
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On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Mark Fowler wrote:
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> work Mac (i.e. the one that doesn't have my music collection on it.)
> Where's the sodding "never" option then?
How To Use One iPod with Two or More Macs
From Rachael Smithey,Your Guide to Focus on Macs.
The Macintosh to which you ordinarily connect your iPod is its
home computer. You can add songs to your iPod from a second (or
third...) Macintosh by following these steps.
Difficulty:=C2=A0Easy
Time Required:=C2=A05 min.
Here's How:
1. Connect your iPod to the second computer
2. This alert box will appear: The iPod is linked to another iTunes
music library. Do you want to change the link to this iTunes
music library and replace all existing songs and playlists on
this iPod with those from this library?
3. Click No
4. Open iTunes
5. Click on the iPod Options button
6. Click Manually manage songs and playlists
7. Click OK
8. You are now able to copy songs and playlists from the second
computer's iTunes library to your iPod.
<http://macs.about.com/cs/ipod/ht/ipod_two_macs_p.htm>;
First hit on Google when pasting part of that message in.=20
But then, I assume you already tried that, and are just being snarky :-)
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Chris Devers
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From: Mark Fowler Date: 15:59 on 08 Nov 2004 Subject: Re: FOAD iTunes On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Chris Devers wrote: > The Macintosh to which you ordinarily connect your iPod is its > home computer. You can add songs to your iPod from a second (or > third...) Macintosh by following these steps. No, this puts the iPod into manually updating mode. Meaning when I plug it back into my home computer it doesn't sync any more (I have to copy the music across manually or remember to change the iPod back to automatic update.) Yes, this does mean that this is a PER IPOD not a PER COMPUTER setting. Yes, this is MORONIC DESIGN. FFS.
From: Chris Devers
Date: 16:21 on 08 Nov 2004
Subject: Re: FOAD iTunes
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Mark Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Chris Devers wrote:
>
> > The Macintosh to which you ordinarily connect your iPod is its
> > home computer. You can add songs to your iPod from a second (or
> > third...) Macintosh by following these steps.
>
> No, this puts the iPod into manually updating mode.
Ahh, I can't help you there then. Automatic mode is out for me as I've
got more music than will fit on my iPod, so the software forces me into
manual mode. Which is just as well, for my needs.
You, on the other hand, are stuck.
You can always complain to Apple...
<http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html>;
But that probably isn't as cathartic as complaining here.
From: David Champion Date: 18:40 on 08 Nov 2004 Subject: Re: FOAD iTunes * On 2004.11.08, in <Pine.OSX.4.61.0411081117080.10647@xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx>, * "Chris Devers" <cdevers@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > Ahh, I can't help you there then. Automatic mode is out for me as I've > got more music than will fit on my iPod, so the software forces me into > manual mode. Which is just as well, for my needs. So have I, by a factor of 5, but the software doesn't force me into anything (except clicking "no" a lot). I chose to sync by playlist, and I manufacture playlists for what I want. It won't let me sync more than the iPod will hold, but it doesn't make me use manual mode to prevent that. I just have to deselect playlists. > You can always complain to Apple... > But that probably isn't as cathartic as complaining here. Yes, that's basically the point. -- -D. dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx NSIT::ENSS
From: John Sinteur Date: 18:54 on 08 Nov 2004 Subject: Re: FOAD iTunes On Nov 8, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Mark Fowler wrote: > update.) Yes, this does mean that this is a PER IPOD not a PER > COMPUTER Things that need to be - or not be - "per-computer" are difficult for Apple. Another example: I've got a G4 desktop at home, and on the road I have an iBook. I want to keep my mail on whatever computer I'm using, and after mucking about with unison for a while I bought a 256 Mb flash disk. Since I'm a paranoid idiot, I created an encrypted disk image on it, and my ~/Library/Mail is a symbolic link to that encrypted disk image - so every time I want to read my mail on a computer, I insert the flash, double-click the volume after it mounts, double-click the disk image file to mount the encrypted volume, and launch Mail.app. So far, so good. It works rather nicely, except double-clicking a lot to get the Mail volume mounted is silly when you run an operating system that has "folder actions". For those of you who have managed to avoid OS X so far, the idea is that you can write a little script that gets run every time something happens to a folder (such as being opened, items being dropped in them, etc). So I wrote a folder action that mounted the image and launched Mail.app after I insert the flash disk. Happy as a clam that this actually worked, I copied the script to the iBook, only to discover that my iBook felt that "folder actions" were disabled for the flash disk. OS X has chronic Altzheimers when it comes to remembering wether folder actions are turned on or off for a removable disk. Crap. Apparently the idea that you move removable volumes around is a new one. I hear that the next iteration of OS X will have some new features to make your home directory less bound to a specific piece of hardware. I suspect that this will be limited to "your entire home directory", since my home directory will not likely fit on a flash disk any time soon. Bugger. -John
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 19:30 on 08 Nov 2004 Subject: Re: FOAD iTunes > So far, so good. It works rather nicely, except double-clicking a lot > to get the Mail volume mounted is silly when you run an operating > system that has "folder actions". I enabled Folder Actions, played around with them for a while, ran into some truly insane misbehaviour in Finder, and turned them off all over the place. I'm getting more into a mood of "cd Mail.app/Contents/MacOS; mv Mail Mail.real; vi Mail; ..." and have the Mail script check that everything's mounted in the right place before letting Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail run.
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