Jungle disk and iPod on Windows
(This article was called 'Jungle disk and iPod problems on Windows', but as Dave from JungleDisk points out below, it's not really a JungleDisk problem, and I like their service so much I didn't want it to sound too critical. I also appreciate Dave doubling my readership. Hopefully the article will be useful for others though)
I recently bought an iPod nano (finally!). More on that, and the nike+ kit I bought with it anon, but in the meantime I had a problem today which I thought was worth sharing with others.
JungleDisk is an online storage service that works with Amazon's S3 storage service. I've been using it for a few months now to backup our photos. For about 30GB of data, it costs me about $4 per month, which is very cheap. It's very easy to use, and I highly recommend it. There are clients for Windows, Mac and Linux. But today it (edit: sort of) broke my iPod.
I recently bought an iPod nano (finally!). More on that, and the nike+ kit I bought with it anon, but in the meantime I had a problem today which I thought was worth sharing with others.
JungleDisk is an online storage service that works with Amazon's S3 storage service. I've been using it for a few months now to backup our photos. For about 30GB of data, it costs me about $4 per month, which is very cheap. It's very easy to use, and I highly recommend it. There are clients for Windows, Mac and Linux. But today it (edit: sort of) broke my iPod.
I'm normally a Linux user (yay for Ubuntu!), but today I booted into
Windows to sync my ipod to nikeplus.com and decided to setup JungleDisk
at the same time. I did this and all was well, but then the next time
I plugged in my nano to put some more music on it, I got an error from
iTunes:
But after a lot of hair pulling, and thinking maybe my ipod really was broken, I found the following useful entry on the Apple website.
"iTunes has detected an ipod in recovery mode""uh-oh". I went through the Restore/Reboot process provided by iTunes, but every time the ipod rebooted it wasn't recognized. After unplugging and plugging in again I got the same error message. I even tried the "if nothing else fixes it this will" trick of rebooting Windows, and this didn't work either! I figured it was Vista at fault.
But after a lot of hair pulling, and thinking maybe my ipod really was broken, I found the following useful entry on the Apple website.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304503which links to
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499#changedriveBasically, JungleDisk installs itself on a Windows drive letter, so you can treat your remote storage as a normal Windows drive. In my case, this was drive letter "J" which unfortunately happened to be the same drive on which my iPod was sat. This meant that, presumably, iTunes didn't see the iPod properly and thought it was in Recovery Mode. Why JungleDisk set itself up on a letter already in use, and why iTunes or Windows didn't spot this and assign the iPod a different letter is anyone's guess. But there you go - if iPod + JungleDisk is breaking your iPod, the fix is to re-assign your iPod to another drive letter. If only JungleDisk developers used iPods...
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Thanks for pointing this out. However, Jungle Disk can't detect if your iPod is set to use the J: drive unless it's plugged in when Jungle Disk is being configured (otherwise it thinks the J: drive is available). It won't use a drive that is already in use.
You can also easy change the drive that Jungle Disk uses in the configuration, if you'd prefer to leave the iPod as drive J: