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User profile for user: sandler77
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iTunes 7.7 Update and iPod classic = Spinning Beach Ball

Just upgraded to the new iTunes 7.7 (iphone 2.0 and app store support). After, I plugged in my ipod classic and it took almost 5 minutes of the "spinning beach ball" to recognize the ipod. I check and it says my software (1.1.2) is up to date. I ejected and tried it again. Same thing. Once recognized, the ipod classic seems to work fine in iTunes, but still not sure about all options.

Anyone else upgrade iTunes and find the same thing happening?

Note: No option to sync ipod classic games any more. A new "Applications" designation listed in iTunes 7.7 (which has my purchased games listed), but no way to "sync" them or resync them if there were to be an issue or if I wanted to remove the game now and sync it again later...

iPod classic 160GB, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 10, 2008 11:55 AM

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User profile for user: mactrav
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Posted on Jul 10, 2008 4:05 PM

Same issue with me, I rebuilt permissions, whipped the iPod and still beach-ball of Death.
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User profile for user: sandler77
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Jul 11, 2008 6:04 AM in response to sandler77

Looks like Apple removed the 7.7 download from their server.

At least that means Apple has finally recognized a software issue and is dealing with it, instead of just continuing to sell iPods and iPhones and letting customers be less than 100% satisfied with their products. I hope they release 7.7.1 soon so that they can deal with the huge amounts of complaints posted on this discussion thread and many others about hang time and spinning beach balls with iTunes 7.7...
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User profile for user: Dirk Tanner
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Jul 12, 2008 4:29 PM in response to sandler77

I'm having the same problem. Last night I wanted to update my iPhone to 2.0 so I had to update iTunes first. When I connect my iPhone, everything works fine (thank God). But quite a different story when I connected my 80 GB classic today. Spinning beachball, iPod icon appears on desktop and in Finder, but iTunes does not show my iPod.

I've tried everything I can think of from resetting my iPod to reinstalling iTunes. Nothing has worked for me.

Is there no fix to this yet? Has anyone solved the problem? Are we suppose to wait for Apple to solve this problem?

Dirk
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iTunes 7.7 Update and iPod classic = Spinning Beach Ball

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