Friday, September 19, 2008

Lost iTunes Library, Found iPod

Finder doesn't 'find' enough.
Other options are there and here's a simple example of such for OS X users
clipped from rixstep.com

Countless megabytes of information on iPods and iTunes and the woes caused by the inability to copy songs out of the iPod - and yet it's only:

cp -R /Volumes/<name>/iPod_Control ~

Michael saw an article recently in a hardcopy Mac magazine. Someone had written in telling how a purchase of Cocktail had enabled all files to be visible in Finder.

The mag's own editor calmly pointed out that no purchase, no additional software, was ever necessary. All one had to do was:

ls -a
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