[adamberti]

Alright so I just docked my iPod. I'd had to move some files to work, so I threw them on there, dumped them off at work, tried to do some printing ( I HATE FONTS!! AHHHH!!), and then came home. Well iTunes popped up and said it was updating the iPod, copying 1 of 512 songs! What?? I hadnt changed anything, but apparently I had lost over 500 songs off of my iPod mysteriously. And they were whole albums I'd lost, not just random songs. I'm thinking twice about keeping my music on my iPod with only a DVD-R backup. How do you lose that much!!?? At a couple Megs a song (192 AAC), thats a big chunck to lose. I never hit Yes when iTunes pops up on a different computer, and I never unplug the iPod before its been unmounted. So I dont see how I would lose songs. One thing I did notice, is I restarted (through the apple menu) a computer at work while my iPod was connected and it never stopped flashing 'Do not Disconnect'. When you restart your computer, should it not unmount the iPod and allow you to disconnect it?

And to make other things strange... iSync fails syncronization every time (starting yesterday before I lost the sons). Anyone ever seen that one and know how to fix it, or what's going on?

[adamberti]

UPDATE: Went for a jog tonight, no problems, only stopped playing once in a 40 minute run, seems alright to me, and that was when I was doing sprints, so I'm happy.

But I just put it in the cradle and the Disk Scan Icon appeared!! I've had this thing less than a week and according to this KB article, "If iPod finds an issue when it is turned on, it automatically uses internal diagnostics to check for and repair any damage to the hard disk." Wow, this might explain my previous two problems, but I'm worried that this thing, it lost songs and wont sync and now this - I think its going in to service no matter what the outcome of the disk scan.

[Steve]

Either send it in to Apple or go to a local Apple Store (although, judging from your location, there is not one nearby).

That doesn't sound normal.