I know it's possible to sync a FAT32 iPod with a Mac. I've had my iPod nano 4th gen formatted for Mac since December 24, when I received it. I recently have needed to use it as a disk drive on Vista and I was thinking about formatting it for FAT32.
Here's the details.
Last night, I was synchronizing some new music to my Mac formatted iPod. I unplugged it because it froze and then all of my album artwork disappeared. I tried syncing it about three more times before using Disk Utility to restore it using FAT32. Then, overnight I copied my 14GB of content to my nano and I woke up to see that it had copied everything, just as it's supposed to. Then, I notice that it's all in the "Other" category instead of Video, Audio, and Photos. So I take it to my mom's Dell laptop to do a true FAT32 formatting and then copied some songs from her computer to mine using the iPod system, which played the songs. So about midway through my 14GB sync process, the iPod ejects itself. I look at the 'About' panel and it says "7.42GB free" but then I see that it, again, had copied everything into the 'Other' category.
Does anyone know what the issue is? I didn't think it would be this difficult to use FAT32 with Mac. And I know it's not because my sister's got the same iPod that I have and hers is FAT32 and I can copy songs to it for her. I did just yesterday, in fact.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here's the details.
Last night, I was synchronizing some new music to my Mac formatted iPod. I unplugged it because it froze and then all of my album artwork disappeared. I tried syncing it about three more times before using Disk Utility to restore it using FAT32. Then, overnight I copied my 14GB of content to my nano and I woke up to see that it had copied everything, just as it's supposed to. Then, I notice that it's all in the "Other" category instead of Video, Audio, and Photos. So I take it to my mom's Dell laptop to do a true FAT32 formatting and then copied some songs from her computer to mine using the iPod system, which played the songs. So about midway through my 14GB sync process, the iPod ejects itself. I look at the 'About' panel and it says "7.42GB free" but then I see that it, again, had copied everything into the 'Other' category.
Does anyone know what the issue is? I didn't think it would be this difficult to use FAT32 with Mac. And I know it's not because my sister's got the same iPod that I have and hers is FAT32 and I can copy songs to it for her. I did just yesterday, in fact.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.