by aryxus » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:02 am
Wow... This worked for me. I just went in to MediaMonkey, selected all songs on the iPhone and hit delete. Then, when I reconnected to iTunes, it was visible again. Whew!!
However, the reason this problem happened in the first place was that someone called while I was syncing a bunch of tunes from MM, after I had already pushed 2GB onto the phone, and it cut off the transfer. When the iPhone became visible again, iTunes said I was missing that 2GB of space (it was all showing up under Other).
After frantic googling, I finally discovered DiskAid (
http://www.digidna.net/products/diskaid/download). It basically lets you view your iPhone (or iPod) as a drive. I just went in, deleted all the songs (which were in there, under iTunes_Control/Music, but apparently hadn't been registered to the database or something), and suddenly had my 2GB of space back.
I'm breathing MUCH easier now!!!!
It would be nice if Apple had such a utility of their own, but you know how much they hate us users "going behind the scenes". Anyway, thank god for third-party developers.
All of which leads me to my final point: can't MediaMonkey 'register' (or whatever it's called) each song as it's synced, instead of waiting until they're all done? It's courting disaster (as evidenced by my predicament), particularly since you can never tell when someone is going to call you.
So I guess the lesson for the day is to play it safe: set your iPhone to airplane mode before syncing large amounts of files.
Wow... This worked for me. I just went in to MediaMonkey, selected all songs on the iPhone and hit delete. Then, when I reconnected to iTunes, it was visible again. Whew!!
However, the reason this problem happened in the first place was that someone called while I was syncing a bunch of tunes from MM, after I had already pushed 2GB onto the phone, and it cut off the transfer. When the iPhone became visible again, iTunes said I was missing that 2GB of space (it was all showing up under Other).
After frantic googling, I finally discovered DiskAid (http://www.digidna.net/products/diskaid/download). It basically lets you view your iPhone (or iPod) as a drive. I just went in, deleted all the songs (which were in there, under iTunes_Control/Music, but apparently hadn't been registered to the database or something), and suddenly had my 2GB of space back.
I'm breathing MUCH easier now!!!!
It would be nice if Apple had such a utility of their own, but you know how much they hate us users "going behind the scenes". Anyway, thank god for third-party developers.
All of which leads me to my final point: can't MediaMonkey 'register' (or whatever it's called) each song as it's synced, instead of waiting until they're all done? It's courting disaster (as evidenced by my predicament), particularly since you can never tell when someone is going to call you.
So I guess the lesson for the day is to play it safe: set your iPhone to airplane mode before syncing large amounts of files.