Re: [linux-audio-user] how to un-ipod some m4a songs.

From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Apr 20 2006 - 19:14:22 EEST

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:51 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> I made sure gnome-volume-manager, dbus and hal are installed. But when
> I launch gtkpod I get:
>
> '/media/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB' does not exist. Import
> aborted.
>
> In fact /media/ipod does not exist. If I create it and mount the thing
> manually I get permissions errors.
>
> How is this supposed to work? Is gnome-volume-manager supposed to
> create the /media/ipod directory? Should it already exist? What are
> the correct permissions?

lee, make sure you turn off journalling on the ipod first. you'll need a
mac os x system, and use the diskutil(1) tool. linux will only mount the
ipod as a read-only FS if journalling is enabled, because the current
linux support for journalling on HFS+ is not believed to be robust
enough.

--p
Received on Fri Apr 21 00:15:14 2006

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