Q: My Macbook Pro, El Capitan will not recognise my 30gb ipod classic, but my work windows 7 laptop did!?
My 2010 Macbook pro running el capitan will not recognise my 30gb ipod classic, but my work Windows 7 laptop, once I installed iTunes did!? Great, I thought, I'll reset the iPod to FACTORY DEFAULTS and wipe it and I hoped my Mac would then see the ipod, but NO, not even appearing in Disk Manager. Have now tried 3 or poss 4 leads, one of which is a brand new 'genuine apple' one. This is really annoying. My iPhone 6 works fine, but I want the iPod for when I am running in the rain and to plug into the older stereo on the truck. There appears to be nothing wrong with the iPod itself, though it has had a battery replacement some time ago and has worked fine since. It has never synchronized with my Macbook. I have tried before El Capitan and several times since getting the laptop last year with Yosemite installed.
Obviously I have followed the Apple Support troubleshooting which basically in this instance achieves nothing. I have the latest version of iTunes, recently updated.
Can somebody PLEASE help!? I am obsessed and really want it to work. I love my iPod classic and was going to use it and get the case refurbished. It would appear that historically there have been a **** of a lot of issues like this, has everyone just given up and binned their iPod's in favor of their phones?
Any help would be appreciated. It is driving me mad and I am all Googled out.
Joe
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), null
Posted on Jan 6, 2016 2:39 AM