The Proper Care and Maintanance of Your (meaning my) Mac

[holdouttrout]

First things first: Season Three of West Wing. Total love.

Second: My iPod Touch is not being picked up by my computer. At all. So I thought maybe I'd try updating my iPod to the new OS, only I wanted to update iTunes first, only I never upgraded to Leopard, let alone Snow Leopard. So... I ordered Snow Leopard, to update iTunes, to update my iPod, to hopefully connect my iPod to my computer.

Mind you, this likely will not solve my problem, I think. BAH. (It needs to be done anyway.) Anybody have any other ideas? (And yes, I tried restarting both my computer and my iTouch.)

Comments

[ziparumpazoo]

Sounds like it could be hardware related if it's not picking it up at all. Three things to check:
1. The cable - know somebody who can lend you one to test?
2. The port on your computer. Try another port, or better yet, another computer. You don't need to actually sync, just get that chirp sound you hear when it's charging.
3. The connector on your iPod. This would be the worst to go, but if the above two fail, and you can get another iPod device to connect to your computer with your cable, check your warranty or see your friendly neighborhood Apple store.

*fingers crossed for cable-fail*

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

1. I have two cables that should theoretically work.
2+3. Both of them work with my (wall) charger, and my two USB ports on my computer work with other things, like flash drives.

It's really bizarre.

[annienau08.livejournal.com]

I am of absolutely no help on your technical issues. I just wanted to share in the West Wing squee. :)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Hee!

West Wing is just so fabulous. I can't believe I didn't just devour it straight through when I first started watching it.

[ziparumpazoo]

That is strange. I did some digging, because now I'm really curious. Apple suggests doing exactly what you're doing - updating everything. But that won't help if you computer still doesn't detect the hardware after you install Snow Leopard.

The other things I found is here. Apparently, the iPod only uses two pins in the connector for charging, the rest are used to data transfer. So it is possible that you are able to charge, but if there is a broken pin (or a solder point somewhere inside the device and out of sight), it might not be communicating with your computer, even though it's getting power. :(

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Oh, boy. Well, I have to update everything anyway, so I'll start there and cross my fingers. *g*