My iPod nano randomly had this problem just now.
I have always manually managed my music on my nano, I do it very carefully, and I've never had any problems with manually deleting or adding songs to it (which I like, since I have limited space, older nano, only 2GB). I connected my iPod to my Mac and discovered that about half of my 2GB's worth of songs had been deleted. The only thing I did prior to checking was delete one of two versions of a song I had just added.
Scanning through the songs that had been deleted, almost all the songs deleted were "older" ones (meaning I had added them a while ago), and all the songs I had just added recently were all on there. But then I found several of the newer ones were also deleted. If a song was added to the iPod within about 3-4 months before today, then it appears to be okay; everything else "older" than that is gone. But since some of the newer songs are gone too, it appears to be random.
Under my Options, I have checked: "Open iTunes when this iPod is connected" and "Manually manage music." Under the tabs for Music/Podcasts/etc., none of the Sync options are checked. I'm running the latest version of iTunes (9.2.1(4)). My format says Windows, I'm using this nano on a Mac, but I've never had this problem before.
Obviously it'll be a huge pain trying to remember the songs that got deleted, but I want to make sure this doesn't happen again. Thanks for any help.
EDIT: Okay, I thought it was random, but after checking/remembering, it seems like every song added up to a certain date was deleted, and every song added after that date is still there. Any idea what would cause that to happen? Synch problem? New version of iTunes clashing with songs added under an older version? Such a bizarre problem.
I have always manually managed my music on my nano, I do it very carefully, and I've never had any problems with manually deleting or adding songs to it (which I like, since I have limited space, older nano, only 2GB). I connected my iPod to my Mac and discovered that about half of my 2GB's worth of songs had been deleted. The only thing I did prior to checking was delete one of two versions of a song I had just added.
Scanning through the songs that had been deleted, almost all the songs deleted were "older" ones (meaning I had added them a while ago), and all the songs I had just added recently were all on there. But then I found several of the newer ones were also deleted. If a song was added to the iPod within about 3-4 months before today, then it appears to be okay; everything else "older" than that is gone. But since some of the newer songs are gone too, it appears to be random.
Under my Options, I have checked: "Open iTunes when this iPod is connected" and "Manually manage music." Under the tabs for Music/Podcasts/etc., none of the Sync options are checked. I'm running the latest version of iTunes (9.2.1(4)). My format says Windows, I'm using this nano on a Mac, but I've never had this problem before.
Obviously it'll be a huge pain trying to remember the songs that got deleted, but I want to make sure this doesn't happen again. Thanks for any help.
EDIT: Okay, I thought it was random, but after checking/remembering, it seems like every song added up to a certain date was deleted, and every song added after that date is still there. Any idea what would cause that to happen? Synch problem? New version of iTunes clashing with songs added under an older version? Such a bizarre problem.
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