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Updated Mar 01, 2007 by iclaymore
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# howto use ipoddisk

Steps

Note that this is highly experimental stuff:

  • If you haven't installed MacFUSE, do it now.
  • download and install iPodDisk.app
  • plugin you iPod and make sure disk mode has been enabled
  • launch iPodDisk.app

PS:

  • it has not been tested on Intel Macs.


Comment by stereolith.stockholm, Nov 19, 2007

So - it works and the music is on my mac / itunes library BUT is not seen in Itunes - Mac Book Pro

Comment by stereolith.stockholm, Nov 19, 2007

And now it works - double copy makes it happen!

Comment by simon.dalvy, Nov 27, 2007

it works properly on a macintel (macbook, imac ) but only sometimes under Leopard (os X.5) works 5minutes and crash...

Comment by ivan.savov, Nov 30, 2007

tiger 10.4.10 with MacFUSE-Core-10.4-1.1.0 installed browsed the ipod reported an error -61 or -64 when i tried to copy some music to it

Comment by etomkinson, Jan 17, 2008

it freezes finder every time I try to launch it - and I have to force quit the computer to get things back to normal. I'm using a ppc mac with leopard installed.

Comment by mgee2005, Feb 03, 2008

please update this for leopard!

Comment by modsstink, Feb 18, 2008

I'm using 1.5.2 and get errors every time I try to load it, working with an iPod Touch.

Comment by jmizener, Mar 16, 2008

Works perfectly on an Intel MacBook? Pro (Core 2 Duo) running Mac OS X 10.4.11.

Comment by benjaminrk, Apr 13, 2008

works just fine on Core 2 Duo Macbook running OS X 10.5.2 with 3G iPod

Comment by miltonscott1, Apr 28, 2008

I am syncing an iTouch on OS X 10.5.2 and it doesn't work at all. The iTouch is not seen. Going back to your instructions inside the text file quote: (iTunes > Preferences iPod Tab > General > Select Enable disk use) -- There is no "iPod tab" in iTunes version 7.6.1(9) or any tabs under preferences. What should the instructions be now??

Comment by B3CloneWheel, May 03, 2008

ipod disk decided that 20 out of 100GB music was already on my hard drive (it was empty) and it did not give me an overwrite option (so I could overwrite what ipod disk thought was phantom files)....just "stop" and "continue" buttons. I really needed an "I don't care what you think, do a damn straight copy and I'll sort it out later" button. F steve jobs, he did this to us. He made deals with the record industry so he could fatten his wallet and apple stock price and I lose 4,000 songs (and possibly $4,000 worth of assets) because he negotiated with satan--whoops I mean RIAA.

Comment by music.maid, May 04, 2008

For those of you having problems where it freezes the finder or quits unexpectedly. Try just logging out and logging in again. If that's not an option and you have to force quit your computer, reset the PRAM to get it up and running again. This works for me. Running 10.5.2 on an Intel iMac.

Comment by twitwad, Jul 03, 2008

On an intel imac running 10.5.4, it worked for about 10 minutes and 13.5 GB read from my ipod. I then tried to move a larger block of files, and then an error message, and Finder's "Copying" dialog locked up. A reboot of finder was needed to release the dialog. But ipoddisk would not relaunch. I suspect a reboot is needed. Nice while it lasted...

Comment by sarahnadian, Nov 06, 2008

Slightly irrelevant, but how do I enable disk mode while manually managing my songs and playlists? This is the reason I need ipod disk or something of its ilk: because I have music on my iPod that I don't have on my computer and I need to get them back onto my computer!

Comment by sarahnadian, Nov 06, 2008

Sorry: 5th Gen 30G video iPod, MacBook? running 10.5.5

Comment by sarahnadian, Nov 06, 2008

Forget it. I found TuneAid? which puts all this to shame!

Comment by Lauren.Fedor, Nov 29, 2008

How do I enable disk mode for iTunes 8.02? I am using an iPod touch and want to transfer music from the device to my computer. Thanks!

Comment by nyenyec, Dec 17, 2008

Didn't work for me, but Senuti did.

Comment by the_malf...@hotmail.com, Dec 26, 2008

Don't you have to pay for senuti though? Ipoddisk don't work at all

Comment by cellobowmusic, Apr 09, 2009

it "worked" for me, unibody MacBook? 2.4Ghz Leopard BUT,

it kinda messed up my ipod, missing songs and there the ipod display was just not right. has this happened to anyone else?

Comment by albupo, Apr 17, 2009

There is a problem with this program cutting out in the middle of transfers. Sometimes it takes a while but it seems to be a pretty regular problem. What's worse is that you can't jump right back in, iPodDisk won't recognize the ipod you have plugged in. The problem seems to be that iPodDisk is still open in the background, like when IE crashes on a PC but is still running in the background until you end the process.

The trick I found that seems to work is to go into your terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) and type in 'df' (without the ' ticks of course) this will show open volumes you have, you'll probably see iPodDisk listed there.

If this is the case you want to type in 'disktool -e iPodDisk' and capitalization is important (I think). This is telling the disktool to eject that disk. After this you can exit out of terminal and try opening up iPodDisk again.

There might be a better way to eject a volume, but this is the one I found.

Also, MacFuse? suggests that you never use an older version of MacFuse? which seems to be what this page is pointing you towards, so make sure you check out there site for the latest version. (They claim that they never break older applications with their updates, who knows but I'll trust them.)

Comment by richgarr...@mac.com, May 03, 2009

I had problems immediately after downloading. Now Finder is not running, all of my desktop icons are gone, and I cannot open most files. Any suggestions?

Comment by spissuvalentina, Sep 13, 2009

doesn't work with 10.6.1


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