Alex, I wish I had an answer, but I too have that model that has been sitting on a ac powered speaker stand next to the bed for the last 7 years. I probably last synched it 6 years ago. I have been wondering what would happened if I synched it. Is the battery fully charged? After searching for similar problems, I found this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2360928?start=0&tstart=0 and the solution back then, in 2010, was to reinstall iTunes (do not uninstall first, just reinstall iTunes on top of the current iTunes). I hope that helps. Bill On Aug 5, 2011, at 9:55 PM, Alex Whitman wrote: > I have an iPod from 2003 or maybe 2004, the 3rd generation, with a touch > wheel, 4 buttons and a firewire dock. Today I tried to sync it with iTunes > (10.4). No dice - iTunes becomes unresponsive and gives me a spinning beach > ball until I force quit. The battery will charge but there is no syncing > happening. Tried it without the dock, just the cable, with the same result. > This is the first time I've tried to sync it in at least a year, so several > iTunes updates have happened since then. Is it simply obsolete? Or is there > something else I should try? > > Many thanks, > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
