Thanks Bill, I'll try reinstalling iTunes this afternoon. The battery is about 3/4 charged after sitting in the dock plugged into the MacBook yesterday. The Bose speaker dock where it usually lives feeds it enough power to play, but not enough to charge it.
Alex On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Bill Micou <derby...@mac.com> wrote: > 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 > > MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >
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