My 80 GB iPod is beyond full as well. I won't be happy until they are at least 160 GB, if not 200. My music alone takes up 100 GB, and that leaves me no room for putting TV shows and such on my iPod.

'Zactly. I have about 50 gig of music, with more still on my computers, and the first season of grey's anatomy, and a handful of other television shows; then some movies, but not all because I couldn't fit them all; a few gigs of podcasts, etc. A 200gig iPod would be *ideal,* because for me I just have to dump everything on there and use it as a way to store the media in addition to playing it.

I think the assumation is that people will have everything stored in one place, and then add to the iPod as they want.

Fay, check the file path for some of the missing songs in iTunes. It may be looking for them in the original "home" folder from where you got them, versus the new location. You can probably turn up a trend at least, and that may lead to being able to repoint the damn things.

Unfortunately iTunes doesn't show the file path for your files on your iPod. It would be a trillion times more user friendly if it did.

I'm also wondering if the problem couldn't be that the file index on the iPod is corrupt. Meaning that the files could actuall be there, but the index is frelled up. I know there are various utility programs like Senuti (which I've used) that will let you go exploring the files on your iPod, so maybe that's what is needed here to determine what's going on?

From what I've ascertained the file tree is intact, but the files themselves are no longer in the place they once were on the ipod. I had her check the locales of the files that had gone missing and they were no longer there, so somehow they must have committed suicide while keeping the library intact. Really, the only solution would be to copy the files from their hidden folders on the drive, trash the file tree by restoring/reformatting the iPod, and then slowly readding the file library again by making itunes recognize what's available. It sucks and it takes forever. I did it four times in March.

Follow-up on the thing we talked about before:

Jobs did acknowledge that the company is still struggling to decide if third-party developers will be able to create software that will run on the iPhone. It’s a decision Apple “is wrestling with,” according to Jobs.

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-t, I have a RAZR, but I have no idea how to help you. Sorry.

What do people know about the AT&T U-verse? I got a thing in the mail about it yesterday, and it sounds not only much cheaper but better than Comcast. They have a DVR that can record FOUR channels at once! I'm skeptical because it all sounds too good to be true. Save fifty bucks a month AND get a magic DVR? Really?

They don't appear to get G4, which is kind of lame.

P-C - In the fine print it says "purchase of AT&T U-verse TV required." Who knows WTF that means?

Oh, wow. That's so weird! I'm looking at the demo stuff, and apparently this magical DVR is part of the TV.

Oh wait wait. Jon, "AT&T U-verse TV" means that you have to buy the cable bundled with the Internet. They don't do the Internet separately, is the thing. The TV thing comes as receivers, like you'd expect. Okay.

I'm trying to figure out what the catch is. Besides the lack of G4.

I'm really wondering about this thing, but at least if I don't decide to do it, I can honestly tell Comcast I'm thinking of switching, so please give me a good deal if you want to keep me.

I am suffering from a computer Catch-22. I was trying to load an upgrade to my virus program, and, after deleting the previous version, the install refused to go on until I deleted "WindowsDefender.msi." There is no such file on my computer. I tried to uninstall Windows Defender, and it said those files were not available. I tried downloading Windows Defender, and it said that it couldn't go on until I had deleted (you guessed it) WindowsDefender.msi, which I can't delete because IT DOES NOT EXIST. It also suggested I consult my tech support group, so here I am. The only option I can think of is restoring the previous version of the anti-virus software (PC-Cillin) from a backup, which still doesn't solve the upgrade question. I did contact the PC-Cillin people, who said it was a Microsoft question.

::head desk::