So I'll try to explain the situation in the most articulate way I can. Here goes...
A friend of mine got a new ipod mini, which I helped set up for him on his laptop. Browsing through his music collection, I saw a couple of tracks I wanted to 'borrow' for my own ipod. No problems there, I'm set at manual, itunes promptly recognized my ipod - on the left hand it said "antiditz's ipod" instead of my friend's ipod name - dragged the tunes over, safely disconnected... business as usual.
Here comes the weird part. Another friend of ours decided she wanted to hook her mini up to this guy's laptop and upload some tunes as well. I noticed, right before she plugged it in, that itunes still said "antiditz's ipod" even though my ipod was no longer connected. Not thinking anything of this, we proceeded to connect friend #2's mini to the laptop. And the oddest thing happened. Itunes (or some phantom) overwrote all her songs and replaced them with all the songs that are on my ipod, which were still displaying in itunes. And, although the computer recognized the new hardware (her mini), itunes was still calling it "antiditz's ipod!" When we explored Drive F though, all her files were still there. So they were in there somewhere, but not visible or playable on her mini. Even the "new" files, my music collection, although visible and browsable once her mini was disconnected, were unplayable.
How the heck could something like this happen? What's the solution? How to avoid in the future? Any help/explanation would be appreciated. We are all three of us befuddled and perplexed by the whole thing.
A friend of mine got a new ipod mini, which I helped set up for him on his laptop. Browsing through his music collection, I saw a couple of tracks I wanted to 'borrow' for my own ipod. No problems there, I'm set at manual, itunes promptly recognized my ipod - on the left hand it said "antiditz's ipod" instead of my friend's ipod name - dragged the tunes over, safely disconnected... business as usual.
Here comes the weird part. Another friend of ours decided she wanted to hook her mini up to this guy's laptop and upload some tunes as well. I noticed, right before she plugged it in, that itunes still said "antiditz's ipod" even though my ipod was no longer connected. Not thinking anything of this, we proceeded to connect friend #2's mini to the laptop. And the oddest thing happened. Itunes (or some phantom) overwrote all her songs and replaced them with all the songs that are on my ipod, which were still displaying in itunes. And, although the computer recognized the new hardware (her mini), itunes was still calling it "antiditz's ipod!" When we explored Drive F though, all her files were still there. So they were in there somewhere, but not visible or playable on her mini. Even the "new" files, my music collection, although visible and browsable once her mini was disconnected, were unplayable.
How the heck could something like this happen? What's the solution? How to avoid in the future? Any help/explanation would be appreciated. We are all three of us befuddled and perplexed by the whole thing.