you should be able to access the 20-sum music folders on the IPOD's hard
drive thru your mac and manually copy the files off it onto your computer.
I know you can do this on the PC versions, so I'd assume the same on the
Mac.

-kev 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org 
> [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of andrea kremer
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 10:10 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: catastrophic itunes failure - need ipod expert
> 
> hey audities - anyone out there have experience rescuing an 
> ipod from being
> corrupted by itunes?
> 
> my mac at work is notorious for blowing up/corrupting/erasing 
> data, and sure
> enough, today it suddenly failed to recognize my ipod. the 
> error message said
> I would need to "restore factory settings" on the ipod 
> (wiping it clean of
> data) to get it to work.
> 
> i just tried the ipod on my home powerbook -- same result. 
> the evil office mac
> has apparently corrupted the ipod somehow. the songs are 
> still on it, but it
> can't be viewed by itunes. and of course i don't have a 
> library that's synched
> to it, so it's not trivial to recreate what's on the ipod.  
> the songs came
> from all over the place and some of them have since been 
> deleted from their
> various host computers.
> 
> has this happened to anyone else? is there any way for me to 
> rescue what's on
> the ipod before i reformat it, or get it to work with itunes 
> without having to
> reformat?
> 
> it's enough to make a girl run screaming back to microsoft, i tell ya.
> 
> any help at all would be appreciated...
> andrea
>