Directly quoted from Apple's Manual

Quote: Disconnecting iPod touch from Your Computer
Unless iPod touch is syncing with your computer, you can disconnect it from your
computer at any time.
When iPod touch is syncing with your computer, it shows “Sync in progress.” If you
disconnect iPod touch before it finishes syncing, some data may not be transferred.
When iPod touch finishes syncing, iTunes shows “iPod sync is complete.”
To cancel a sync so you can disconnect iPod touch, drag the “slide to cancel” slider.

That's exactly like any other iPod... the only difference is you can cancel it on the actual iPod Touch by sliding the button. On any other iPod to cancel a sync you just press the little "X" in iTunes... no new features here, much less revolutionary...

Well, no, you can't just disconnect any other ipod from your PC without ejecting it from itunes or from windows device manager.

If you can actually just unplug the touch whenever you want once a sync is complete, that would be pretty cool.

Quote: (Originally Posted by Gunner)
Well, no, you can't just disconnect any other ipod from your PC without ejecting it from itunes or from windows device manager.

Sure you can. Squeeze the dock connector at the sides and pull the iPod off, full stop, no need to eject it. I've *never* ejected the iPod with Windows and I only bother with iTunes if I want to eject it from iTunes while still having it connected to the computer.

Quote: (Originally Posted by Code Monkey)
Sure you can. Squeeze the dock connector at the sides and pull the iPod off, full stop, no need to eject it. I've *never* ejected the iPod with Windows and I only bother with iTunes if I want to eject it from iTunes while still having it connected to the computer.

Same, I never once ejected my iPod, I've always just unplugged it after syncing.

Quote: (Originally Posted by Code Monkey)
Sure you can. Squeeze the dock connector at the sides and pull the iPod off, full stop, no need to eject it. I've *never* ejected the iPod with Windows and I only bother with iTunes if I want to eject it from iTunes while still having it connected to the computer.

this is how I messed up my mini. I disconnected without ejecting and songs started taking about 10 seconds to load, some songs would skip or not start at all, this was after fully restoring it. you're not supposed to interrupt data transfers on hard drives like that.

Quote: (Originally Posted by justblaize)
this is how I messed up my mini. I disconnected without ejecting and songs started taking about 10 seconds to load, some songs would skip or not start at all, this was after fully restoring it. you're not supposed to interrupt data transfers on hard drives like that.

What data transfer? Whether you eject it or not, if you disconnect the iPod while it's in the middle of a sync, sure, you can screw stuff up, but if the iPod is just idle, there is no need to eject it.

Well, yanking portable hard drives or flash drives off of Windows without unmounting them can cause the file system to get screwed up. At least in my experience. Apple doesn't put that little 'do not disconnect' screen on their ipods because they were bored.

Quote: (Originally Posted by Gunner)
Well, yanking portable hard drives or flash drives off of Windows without unmounting them can cause the file system to get screwed up. At least in my experience. Apple doesn't put that little 'do not disconnect' screen on their ipods because they were bored.

Well, unless you have disc use enabled, it only says "do not disconnect" while actually transferring data, otherwise it says "OK to disconnect" so I guess they're not so bored.

At any rate, I figure between iPods, flash drives, external drives, etc., that I'm up to tens of thousands of just yanking them with exactly 0 problems to show for it. Windows isn't going to screw up a file system it isn't reading or writing from. Unless you've enabled background tasks that might do that (and you ought to disable all that time wasting crap), you're never going to experience a problem by disconnecting a USB device by just hot unplugging it as that's how USB was designed to work.

Seem to me, some ppl here still dunn understand the diff between auto and manual sync and their implications.


If would be revolutionary if it lets u disconnect AT ANY TIME incl. when it's synching AND when u plug back in, it restarts the sync where it was interrupted b4r.