Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Sat, 01 May 2004

iPod woes ... solved!

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I updated my iPod and iTunes to their latest versions yesterday, wondering if I was going to have problems like I did a short while ago, where the process of trying to update my iPod caused iTunes and even the whole Mac to freeze up.

Sure enough, I had similar problems. Last time, I discovered that my Belkin 6-port FireWire hub's power supply wasn't plugged in all the way (a bad design I reported to Belkin without any reply from them — you'd think that if something is not plugged in properly, it wouldn't show a glowing green light!) and fixing that made the problems go away.

This time, I checked my connections, and the hub had gotten partly unplugged again. I pushed the adaptor, rebooted, and tried again. Did that fix things? No. So I took the hub out of the equation and plugged the iPod connector directly into the Mac. Another reboot, another try. Did that fix things? No!

Running out of ideas, I browsed the discussion lists at Apple's support site, and found this interesting thread: iPod and iTunes freeze during update Somebody suggested that the iSight and iPod can't be plugged into the computer at the same time, due to power usage problems. So I unplugged my iSight, and yipee, the iPod is happily transferring the almost 40 gigs of music to my iPod as I type this.

So ... if you are using an iSight and an iPod, unplug your iSight while you are using your iPod.