I love my mac except when I don't

[mattblakk]

Motherboard on the ibook just fried again. One trip to apple store later, I have no ibook, but a promise they will fix it again, a new power supply and two hours less of my day.

Anyone know how to get music off an ipod if the ibook is missing? Is there a way to back up an ipod without going through the whole computer authorization crap scheme? The only data I don't have backed up are the itunes downloads that are on my ipod.

So here I sit, linked to my back up internet umbilicus, the toshiba tablet pc thingy I was just thinking about selling.

Anyone have an old imac doorstop they don't need?

Comments

aren't the contents of your ipod backed up on the ibook?

[henare.livejournal.com]

there's a tool that can do this. look on www.versiontracker.com for it (don't remember the name off the top of my head)

Re: aren't the contents of your ipod backed up on the ibook?

[mattblakk.livejournal.com]

The ipod is backed up on the ibook, but the ibook's not backed up and just went in for repair. Should something happen to my data while they have my ibook, the ipod will have the only copy of some songs I've paid for, and I didn't want to pay them $50 to back my shit up for me. (I don't have a second mac or firewire capable machine I could use for the target disk mode save trick, either)

I'd only lose about $20 or $30 bucks worth of music, but I'd like to have a rescue option if possible. Does that make sense?

Re: aren't the contents of your ipod backed up on the ibook?

[henare.livejournal.com]

yah ... i wish i could remember the name of the tool ... i have it on my work mac, but not at home ...

[swimunderground.livejournal.com]

two motherboards, that's crazy talk!! Any idea why?

I'm sending my imac doorstop to my mother; for whom it will be the most magical, fastest machine she has ever worked on.

[mattblakk.livejournal.com]

No idea why. I did ask how many times I was going to have to replace it, though. I also asked for the Extra Strength motherboard part number. (humorous-ly enough I hope)

I'd be happy if I never had to replace it again. Many manufacturers will replace an item if it has to have a major repair more than twice, but I don't know what apple's policy is.

[bearsir.livejournal.com]

PodMaster's what you want. It'll let you pull from a pod to a Mac w/o over-synching.

Yah

[kugelblitz.livejournal.com]

Find someone who can burn the songs to a disc.