podcasting ...
This is what I was writing ...
I shall be casting my iPod into the bin I fear.
It's been a fantastic three years (or more? ) together, but last night the hard drive began stuttering ominously. Today I have restored, rebooted and reformatted many times. There has been false hope ... a momentary recovery ... swiftly followed by disappointment.
What I need is some tech support. Unfortunately, I am the tech support. And I have diagnosed that it is definitely a hard drive failure. It makes a nasty whirring noise and I can feel it shuddering in my hand.
And then ... I thought, as I ended that sentence ... 'maybe I will just give it a bloody good whack'. So I did. Smacked it really hard with the palm of my hand, so hard that it stung - which shouldn't have surprised me as it is made of metal ... and I plugged it in. Amused at my ridiculous last ditch efforts.
And now ... it is happily responding to my every whim.
And to think ... I nearly put it on freecycle for spares.
Like in all such situations, I am happier than I would ever have been had it never stopped working in the first place. Delirious :)
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I shall be casting my iPod into the bin I fear.
It's been a fantastic three years (or more? ) together, but last night the hard drive began stuttering ominously. Today I have restored, rebooted and reformatted many times. There has been false hope ... a momentary recovery ... swiftly followed by disappointment.
What I need is some tech support. Unfortunately, I am the tech support. And I have diagnosed that it is definitely a hard drive failure. It makes a nasty whirring noise and I can feel it shuddering in my hand.
And then ... I thought, as I ended that sentence ... 'maybe I will just give it a bloody good whack'. So I did. Smacked it really hard with the palm of my hand, so hard that it stung - which shouldn't have surprised me as it is made of metal ... and I plugged it in. Amused at my ridiculous last ditch efforts.
And now ... it is happily responding to my every whim.
And to think ... I nearly put it on freecycle for spares.
Like in all such situations, I am happier than I would ever have been had it never stopped working in the first place. Delirious :)
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posted by Stray at 3:57 PM
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5 Comments:
Glad it's working still/again, but: if you have music on it that's not on your Mac, you might well want to get that backed up. senuti is a tool for copying from iPod to Mac (like the name suggests, it reverses iTunes)
:-)
Thank you for the laugh this morning. As rattler of phones, shaker of radios and hitting the top of a TV when I owned one I understand your satisfaction completely also have to say am gratified that a techie whizz like yourself finds the slap of hand to be the height of intervention:0)
Thanks Udge! Luckily I'm a programmer, and I keep back ups of my back ups, though I didn't include my music in the last one I did, and I will do that today - all the music is on my computer (and the cds in boxes in a cupboard, but wouldn't that be a drag!).
senuti is a real find though! Thanks for that!
Mary - thanks, glad to provide a smile :)
DW, yes, even those of us who can speak in numbers are forced to resort to small acts of directed violence from time to time :)
From reports I've read, an awful lot of people have had their ipods die on them before or just past the one-year guarantee time. But Apple refuses to do anything about it, saying that there are millions of satisfied customers. Maybe you could publicize the Smack the Ipod technique?
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