IPOD Help

[kingtas]

Hi,

I have an 80GB Ipod with roughly 500 MB in songs. I loaded nothing else.

The Ipod software correctly reports the 500 MB of songs but also reports 7.3 GB total space used.

Now I know there is the IPOD Operating System to take into account but I don't think it should be 5.8 GB. That seems excessive to me. And everything I have been able to find about the size of the OS is that it isn't that big.

Should I exchange this IPOD? Help!

Thanks.

 

[abaez]

Does the ipod come with any videos preloaded? Perhaps its the album art?

 

[kingtas]

Hi Abaez,

Thanks for the response. I do have 10-15 Album Art covers in there. But we're talking Gigabytes here. I just can't see that being the problem.

 

[hennessy1]

Change the ipod into disk mode and then copy the directory with all your music then restore ipod.

 

[kingtas]

Thanks for the reply hennessy1. I'll give it a shot.

 

[hennessy1]

Just make sure you backup it all dnt wanna lose any of your music it happened to me and I know how it feels

 

[kingtas]

Over on the Apple site forum, someone stated the following and said eveything is normal. Does this sound right for the amount of disk space i mentioned above?

In iPod's About menu, the hard disk size is reported as slightly less than the technical specifications for the iPod. The same is true if you connect iPod to your computer in disk mode to look at the info or properties window for the disk.

Why the difference? Most hard disk manufacturers measure disk size this way: 1 MB = 1 million bytes (1000 * 1000). A 4 GB disk, therefore, is one that holds 4 billion bytes. Computers, including Windows computers, Macintosh computers and iPod, measure disk size this way: 1 MB = 1 048 576 bytes (1024 * 1024). The difference in these two calculations is what causes the drive to appear as 3.7 GB on a computer, but actually be a 4 billion byte disk."

It is normal.

 

[TheStu]

Yes and no. You specifically said that it was USING 7.7GB of space, not that the total capacity was 7.7GB less than 80GB.

I would look in the movies area of iTunes, that would eat space.