{"id":161,"date":"2005-07-18T00:35:48","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T05:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2005-07-18T00:35:48","modified_gmt":"2005-07-18T05:35:48","slug":"scary-nasty-ipod-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/18\/scary-nasty-ipod-mini\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary nasty iPod mini"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got annoyed by the iPod mini 1.4 software update yesterday. The biggest issue, to be honest, is that smart lists no longer update properly<\/a>. So I plugged the mini into my Cube, and everything looked to be in order…
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\n… except, when I went to downgrade it, the iPod Software Updater just said “Plug in an iPod to update it.”<\/p>\n

Yikes.<\/p>\n

I tried all sorts of things. Removed the library, removed a bunch of “invisible” files and folders (via the command line), and ultimately wiped out the whole thing with Disk Utility. Nothing worked, though I did manage to bring up the dreaded Exclamation Point In Triangle on the iPod for each subsequent reboot. Time to panic? Yep, I’d say so.<\/p>\n

Eventually and in a fit of desperation I plugged the mini into my work laptop. iTunes immediately recognized that there wasn’t any software installed and took care of it for me. And, when I brought it back to the Cube, I still had bizarro behavior. A reboot cleared that up. Go figure.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, I should’ve saved myself some heartache and simply rebooted the Cube, huh?<\/p>\n

Well, at least Apple has apparently acknowledged<\/a> the loss of functionality. I’m looking forward to the next update, which will (hopefully) smooth out the rough spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got annoyed by the iPod mini 1.4 software update yesterday. The biggest issue, to be honest, is that smart lists no longer update properly. So I plugged the mini into my Cube, and everything looked to be in order…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itunesipod"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FA-2B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}