If you buy a Res an iPod .....

[resonant]

.. she's going be eager to fill it up with the 11GB of music she has stored on her laptop.

When she goes to transfer the music onto the iPod, she's going to discover that she can't do that until she upgrades the version of iTunes on her computer.

When she tries to upgrade iTunes, she'll discover that she can't download the new version until she upgrades her system software from Jaguar to Panther.

And in order to install new system software, she'll first need something big enough to back up all 11GB of music ...

... which is why she bought the iPod in the first place.





[sighs. looks at beautiful shiny empty iPod. Leaves loud "Heeeeeeeelp!" message on the Tech Goddess's voice mail]

Comments

[rossetti.livejournal.com]

Ok, we haven't located 4.5, but we did locate 4.0. With 4.0 you can capture streaming audio, a 'fault' that was the only 'improvement' in the next upgrade.

The dmg installer and two files (I am not of the opinion that they do anything, but A seems to think they could be handy) are here:

http://www.subtextual.net/itunes/

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow -- how cool of you --

but --

-- my OS version is 10.1.4. Will iTunes run on that?

... and, now that I think of it: if 4.0 is on the computer, and 4.5 is on the iPod, won't the iPod just tell me, "OK, go upgrade the software on your computer so they match"?

[rossetti.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell, 10.1.4 should be able to run itunes 4.0. I'm not sure about the ipod/computer compatibility problem.

If you do just want to backup and upgrade, the ipod should just appear as a new hd if you plug in the firewire connection.

I'm not as up on mac stuff as I should be, and I typically just tinker around with stuff to figure it out, so I'm not quite sure what to adivise you to do. Probably ask someone else. ;) Sorry!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Just about the time I finished downloading it, the Tech Goddess called and said, "Don't panic! I'll lend you a portable hard drive!" So I think I'm going to do it that way.

It was awfully nice of you, though, to poke around and find this and then upload it for me!