My ipod is empty, but it says there's space used up on it.

The OS accounts for a few mbs of storage space.

On a 120GB iPod there will be approx 111GB of free hard drive space.

It's because of the way that storage space is calculated by manufacturers, and the way that computers read it differently.



iPod: About the hard disk size.

A corrupt library on the iPod usually presents as 0 songs and a large area of "Other". If you have copies of all your media in your iTunes library this isn't a problem, but if you've been manually managing the content then I guess you'll want to try to recover the files from it first. See this post by Zevoneer on transferring files from the iPod to your computer. Some of the tools rely on the iPod having a healthy library which yours obviously doesn't however the manual method mentioned towards the end of the post should work.

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Some of that space is OS and calculation differences...

What you could try to do is if you don't have anything on it... Just do a restore and if it comes back to the same amount then that's by design... The restore will but it back to a Out of box status.

Good Luck

Hi!

I'm having a similar problem with my iPod classic 80 (2 years old now, so it makes 6th gen right?).

This is what happened:

The day before yesterday I left my iPod attached to my MacBook Pro to be charged overnight. In the morning when I disconnected, all the songs were somehow erased from the iPod (says "0 songs" in the music menu). If I attach my iPod back to my Mac, I get an error message that says "iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPod. Go to the summary tab in iPod preferences and click Restore to restore this iPod to factory settings."

I don't want to restore my iPod because I would loose all the music on it (I don't have backups of everything, messy background with several computers, broken hard drives etc.) My Mac says only 33GB of 74GB on my iPod is available, so I believe my music's still on the iPod. Somehow iTunes and the iPod itself just won't recognize it.

Can anyone provide me with any help? I recently upgraded to iTunes 9.0.2. Could this have anything to do with my problem?

Thanks.

Sounds like an iTunes 9.0.2 related problem, yet again. I'd be interested to see if you figure this out.

Unfortunately I have no useful suggestions as to fixing it. I'd probably downgrade iTunes to 8.2.1 ASAP though if I were you. That way at least I'm not forced to restore my iPod every time I plug it in and I can actually put up to 13GB data on the hard drive (big wow - it was 80GB before I made the mistake of trusting Apple to release a software update that wouldn't destroy my iPod...).

Thanks! Problem solved by transferring the music from iPod back to iTunes, then restoring iPod and putting the music back in there... This one came in handy:

http://www.macworld.com/article/54342/2006/12/twowaystreet20.html