Tommy, it's one of these:

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I just removed my hard drive and put it into an external enclosure!

I'm so impressed with myself right now.

Heeeeelp!!!

My iPod is refusing to play the vast majority of the tracks on it.

The catalyst seems to have been when I had it plugged into my laptop (which was not used to load on the music, what with the disk drive having been buggered for ages now), as I have numerous times before, and a message saying something like 'Hey, this track doesn't seem to have been loaded on via this computer. Connect to interpipe to okay?' came up.

But I can't do that, because I'm not online at home. So I tried to close the wee box thing.

And now it is flat out refusing to play the thousands of songs I loaded onto it in the UK.

I could weep.

Is there ANY way of undoing this, short of going home to the UK and reloading it all? Because I think that it does have the music in there - one minute it was playing it, and the next minute it was refusing to play it. I don't think it's really all been eaten. I hope it's not been eaten.

I am very sad.

Fay, do you mean the tracks aren't playing on the iPod itself? Or they aren't playing when you're connected to the computer?

It sounds like a simple sync issue, though I don't recall it being set to sync automatically when I was putting music on it in January.

I mean the tracks are not playing on the iPod. They are not playing on the laptop. They are not playing here at work on this computer. A little exclamation mark comes up next to the song, when viewing iTunes; on the iPod itself, it shows you the title and all that, but then dashes on to the next song. Which is skips. And the next. And the next. And the next. And then it plays some crappy thing that I didn't even know I had on there.

I am very sad.

Very very sad.

It sounds like a simple sync issue

What does this mean?

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I have managed to authorise the work computer to play music purchased online (not that it ever needed authorising before), but still no go.

I am very sad.

Fay,

the songs you loaded in the UK...did you load them only to the ipod, or do you have a computer backup somewhere on a home computer?

What you need to do is see if your music is still on the Ipod or not. Are you on windows?

You might have to purchase software to get this done. The main thing I would recommend until you figure this out is do not allow your ipod to sync anywhere else. I might be able to come up with a few more suggestions if I know the above.

Fay, also, ipodlounge is a really great place to ipod help of this sort if we can't help you out.

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Nah, it's not synced. I'm not sure what happened, but I'm running some troubleshooting.

Fay, I've had problems with an iPod refusing to play most of the songs on it. Unfortunately, the only solution was to reformat the iPod and reload the music onto it. However, I didn't have the problem with any iTunes library then, so you may have other options.

So, the company that makes the iPod hard drives has come out with a new 120 GB model (the same size as its iPod drives). Are there any rumors as to if/when we'll be seeing 120 GB iPods?