[n~s]

Has anyone used their new iPod a lot as an external drive?

I used mine to back up about 8 GB of data so I could do a clean re-install. I've had some problems moving that data back to my Mac.

Sometimes it works no problem...sometimes it works, but the Finder freezes and hangs during transfer. Once the finder crashed and went into an endless loop of crashing and restarting every 4 or 5 seconds. When the finder does hang, my force quit menu hangs as well...eventually the whole system stops responding.

Since the Finder freezes, I can't unmount the hard drive. I'm afraid that I'm going to lose my backup data if I have to keep forcing my iBook to hard reset while the iPod is mounted.

Help?

Has anyone else had this issue? Any suggestions about alternative ways to pull the data off my iPod or other things I could try to save myself from hard resets?

Thanks.

- n~s

[icruise]

You could try using the terminal, I suppose, if the problem is that the finder is crashing.