This is nothing major, just to throw is out there and see if others are seeing beachballs as well and what, if any, correlation there is between beachball spin duration and amount of data synced to the 'Pad.
FWIW this is iTunes 9.1 on a Macbook Pro with 10.5.8 and a 64GB iPad.
Without any multimedia data (tunes, movies, podcasts, etc) on the iPad -- and just a few apps synced to it -- iTunes recognizes it pretty snappily when the 'Pad is plugged in. So, heaven forbid, I synced up ~1800 tunes and some video podcasts to the 'Pad -- the same collection of junk I have on my 3G iPhone. The sync itself was pretty snappy. Subsequent replugins of the 'Pad into iTunes, however -- much less snappy. The beachball spins for ~20 seconds or so before settling down and recognizing all the junk on the iPad. My iPhone (with the same junk on it) also takes a bit to be recognized, but no beachball involved.
Anyway, just curious if others are running into the Rainbow Ball of Doom with their iPad/iTunes setup. I plan on stuffing 60+ GB of data onto this thing, but if there is a direct correlation between the amount of data and spin duration of the Rainbow Ball of Doom, I will be less inclined to fill 'er up with media.
Cheers,
f
FWIW this is iTunes 9.1 on a Macbook Pro with 10.5.8 and a 64GB iPad.
Without any multimedia data (tunes, movies, podcasts, etc) on the iPad -- and just a few apps synced to it -- iTunes recognizes it pretty snappily when the 'Pad is plugged in. So, heaven forbid, I synced up ~1800 tunes and some video podcasts to the 'Pad -- the same collection of junk I have on my 3G iPhone. The sync itself was pretty snappy. Subsequent replugins of the 'Pad into iTunes, however -- much less snappy. The beachball spins for ~20 seconds or so before settling down and recognizing all the junk on the iPad. My iPhone (with the same junk on it) also takes a bit to be recognized, but no beachball involved.
Anyway, just curious if others are running into the Rainbow Ball of Doom with their iPad/iTunes setup. I plan on stuffing 60+ GB of data onto this thing, but if there is a direct correlation between the amount of data and spin duration of the Rainbow Ball of Doom, I will be less inclined to fill 'er up with media.
Cheers,
f
