3rd Generation iPod Nano write support?

Dave Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Fri Mar 13 18:44:12 UTC 2009


Bill Moseley wrote:
> What's the current status of write support for these devices?
> 
> When connecting to an 8.10 machine I'm seeing:
> 
>     hfs: write access to a journaled filesystem is not supported, use
>     the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> My son purchased the bulk of his music using iTunes on an old PowerPC
> iBook (which is now dead with a hardware failure) so of course, the
> bulk of the music can't be played via Rhythmbox due to the DRM issues.
> Forgot to factor in the cost of new Apple hardware into those song
> purchases.  ;)
> 
> 

	Workaround:
If the HDD from the Mac didn't fail, do you have access to another Mac? 
Maybe boot a good mac from the iBook's HDD, then rip the music to 
regular audio CD? Or backup the iTunes Library to DVD and restore to 
iTunes on some other Windows or Mac setup?

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