For the last week or two I have been enjoying the the beauty that FlyakiteOSX (http://osx.portraitofakite.com/) has brought to my PC (both my desktop and laptop).
About last week I was noticing that when I went to put a new podcast on my iPod shuffle, I would get a "An unknown error has occurred (-36)."
I didn't think a whole lot of it because I just needed to add a file or two. But then, my mom wanted me to update her iPod. To make a long story short, I had to clear off her iPod and put everything back on. When I went to put music back on, I got the -36 error again. iTunes would simply not let me put any music on my Mom's iPod. The iPod I just bought her for Mother's Day!
Then I remembered my issues before -- so I tried it on my iPod again. Still didn't work. So I figured it wasn't the iPod itself. So I went through all the diagnostics on this page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301267
I even shut down every optional process in Task Manager to make sure there were no software conflicts.
Nothing helped. So I thought I would try it on my laptop to see if my desktop was at fault. I had to copy some MP3s onto the laptop and import it into iTunes (since I can't copy from a Network Share to the iPod) and it had the same error!
So I was trying to think of anything that woudl have changed since I last had a successful sync. Finally I realized I installed FlyakiteOSX on both machines. So I uninstalled FlyakiteOSX on my laptop -- and sure enough the laptop can now sync.
Could Apple have some hidded quirk in iTunes to forbid your ipod to sync if you make your PC look Mac-like? Or is this really a technical issue. I even diasbled all the optional components of FlyakiteOSX like ObjectDock and ColorFolders on the desktop -- still doesn't do any good.
All that's left with FlyakiteOSX is registry tweaks and skin/icon changesm, right? Why would that keep an iPod from syncing???
Any ideas/solutions???
About last week I was noticing that when I went to put a new podcast on my iPod shuffle, I would get a "An unknown error has occurred (-36)."
I didn't think a whole lot of it because I just needed to add a file or two. But then, my mom wanted me to update her iPod. To make a long story short, I had to clear off her iPod and put everything back on. When I went to put music back on, I got the -36 error again. iTunes would simply not let me put any music on my Mom's iPod. The iPod I just bought her for Mother's Day!
Then I remembered my issues before -- so I tried it on my iPod again. Still didn't work. So I figured it wasn't the iPod itself. So I went through all the diagnostics on this page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301267
I even shut down every optional process in Task Manager to make sure there were no software conflicts.
Nothing helped. So I thought I would try it on my laptop to see if my desktop was at fault. I had to copy some MP3s onto the laptop and import it into iTunes (since I can't copy from a Network Share to the iPod) and it had the same error!
So I was trying to think of anything that woudl have changed since I last had a successful sync. Finally I realized I installed FlyakiteOSX on both machines. So I uninstalled FlyakiteOSX on my laptop -- and sure enough the laptop can now sync.
Could Apple have some hidded quirk in iTunes to forbid your ipod to sync if you make your PC look Mac-like? Or is this really a technical issue. I even diasbled all the optional components of FlyakiteOSX like ObjectDock and ColorFolders on the desktop -- still doesn't do any good.
All that's left with FlyakiteOSX is registry tweaks and skin/icon changesm, right? Why would that keep an iPod from syncing???
Any ideas/solutions???
