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I have no idea how it got there since the only things I have saved on there are music, a few music videos, and some fitness app data (like 4 workouts worth). It's not letting me add anything else at all to the ipod.
iPod nano
Restore it in iTunes.
But won't that delete everything? I don't want to have to redo all my music settings and everything every time this happens (supposing the same thing happens again).
It will resync your music from your library. If you Restore from backup it will reload your music settings. It sounds like you have a corrupt file on your Nano.
How do you do a backup? I share my itunes with the rest of my family, and not all the stuff that's in the library is stuff I want on my ipod. I tried creating a playlist on the general account with all my music on it, but the music didn't copy over, so I can't do that.
The first thing that happens when you sync your iPod is a backup.
Where can I find a copy of that? Like if I were to completely delete everything on my ipod, what would I do to go about restoring my songs?
Also I have a theory that one of the videos on my ipod is causing all the other stuff. However, I can't delete videos off my ipod (see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4052068?answerId=20313736022#20313736022&ac_cid=tw123456#20313736). Is there any way i can get the music from the backup but not the videos?
How did you sync your Nano in the first place to put the videos and music on it?
I just had the music in my library, and I dragged and dropped it into the music folder on my ipod. For videos there wasn't a specific folder, but I dragged and dropped them in my ipod as well.
So you are manually managing your music. After you restore you will have to manually load it again, but you should be able to connect your Nano and go though everything that is loaded on your Nano in iTunes. Find the video you suspect and see how large it is then delete it.
By drag and drop do you mean in iTunes or opening the iPod as hard disk? If you sync all music and videos using iTunes you will not have the other stuff issues. Only if you use iPod as hard disk or storage media you will encounter such an issue.
Hope this helps!
I sync everything using itunes, but my music is almost all imported from my (mostly illegal) music library that is on my computer only (windows media player).
Also I restored as you said and now the other stuff is only .1 GB, which is great. However it takes a while to reformat everything, and I haven't figured out what it is that caused the other stuff to appear in the first place.
Probably was related to a corrupted stolen song.
Please don't steal music.
All the songs and everything played fine on my old mp4 player and in my windows media player library though.
But you had to have converted them to use them on the iPod and the conversion may have blown up one of the files.
I have the new 7th gen nano, and I have a 11.4 GB of "other" stuff. Any tips on how to get rid of the other stuff?
