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Old iPod (Model A1040) -- is it dying? Won't show music.

Here's my problem. I have one of the older iPods (30GB, Model A-1040, sofware 2.3) with the four command buttons above the click wheel.

About a week ago, I charged it using the dock station as usual, but later found that the iPod appeared to be blank. No songs, no albums, no playlists. I think this may have happened once years ago, and I remembered that by reconnecting it with my iMac and iTunes that it reset itself (and that the songs weren't actually erased).

I connected the iPod to my iTunes (where many of the original music files have since been deleted) and I got an unusual icon appearing on my iPod. It looked like a record player with a circle overlapping a portion, as if it were cleaning the disc.

After a little while, the iPod had reset to its standard look, and all songs/playlists were intact. (Again, this was NOT merely a fresh sync with the iTunes directory, as many of the songs have since been removed from my iTunes directory.)

So, everything worked fine for another week, but again my iPod is now showing no music (even though the ABOUT menu is showing about 9GB of content being used somewhere). Now, though, my iTunes is saying it can't recognize the iPod and is suggesting a complete Reset, which I don't want to do.

So, what should I do? Is there a safe way to reboot the iPod without losing the songs? Why is this happening, and is it a sign the iPod's days are numbered?

Thanks...

Message was edited by: JerryPgh

Mac, Mac OS X (10.5.5), 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Posted on Mar 8, 2010 11:36 AM

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