Hi Dave, Reformatting is done in iTunes. I've never had my iPod settings window completely disappear, but I'd guess this is like setting up the new Nano 4G from scratch -- the area is reached by doing a VO-Right arrow from the sources table past the splitter to an area that originally shows up as "unknown", and you have to interact with it in order to see things. When the settings menu doesn't disappear there is a button to restore or reformat the iPod that you press (VO- Space). What model iPod do you have? The other thing that I've done (with my Nano 4G) was look at it when connected in Finder. The files are normally hidden, but I had changed this with one of my maintenance facility tools. (I wanted to see where the spoken menu snippets were stored, and found I could QuickLook them). You could also try resetting your iPod before reconnecting. Exactly how you do this will depend on your iPod model, but it usually involves toggling the hold switch on and off (on the Nano this means you push it to the right, away from the left edge of the iPod to the locked position, and then back to the left to the unlocked position), and then pressing the menu (12-o'clock position on the wheel) and select (center of the wheel) buttons simultaneously. This is hard to do with your fingers on something as small as the Nano; I had to put it on a flat surface and use either a small screwdriver or a pen or pencil to press down on each point and hold it down for several seconds to reset. There's nothing audible about this. (I had to do this on the older 1G model Nano; I've never had to reset my 4G Nano.)
Once again, the reformatting is handled in iTunes, not in Disk Utility. Cheers, Esther On Apr 9, 2009, at 6:04 AM, Dave Wright wrote: > I've upgraded to the latest version of iTunes and still cannot see > the settings area. How would I go about getting my iPod to show up > in disc utilities in order to perform a reformat? I'm guessing that > when you performed a reformat, everything worked out ok? Did you > just do a quick erase, or did you zero out the drive? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
