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iPod enthusiasts:
I bought my Lovely Wife (tm) an iPod from a guy I work with yesterday. When I look at it in iTunes, it shows only 15 GB free, even tho it's a 40 GB model. 20+ GB missing. I haven't been able to check with the guy I work with yet, but my assumption is that he did not unload what he had on there. Is there a way for ME to just kill those files without taking it back to him to have him remove them? I don't want to see or listen to them, cause, well, he listens to shitty music, I just want the space back.
You may want to do a "restore" to reset the iPod to factory condition.
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I knew you guys would have the answer at hand.
Is there any good way of getting 1 GB of stuff to another person? CDs don't hold that much, right? I realize I could make two CDs, just wondering if I'm missing something.
Burn a DVD if you've got the hardware. Or a 1 GB jump drive.
DVD would really be the best. 4 gigs would fit
Ooh, I think I do have a DVD burner, I just never think about it. Right on, thanks.
Gah. The monitor (actually, a flatscreen TV) attached to my Mac Mini died. Is there a way to safely shut the Mini down? (keystrokes? hold the power button?)
You might think I could ssh or telnet in, but it looks like I never set it up to allow that.
Also, my iPod Nano is attached.
I think holding the power button down will probably work. Works with my iBook. Mac OS X has a journaled FS these days, so even an "unsafe" shutdown is unlikely to do much harm, if any.
Control-eject followed by return should shut it off safely.
