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Apr. 22nd, 2009
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Apr. 22nd, 2009 06:08 pmSomething odd happened last night. Before I went to bed, I plugged in my iPod, which plugs into my gaming computer. In the morning I realized that I'd still been logged into City of Heroes when I did this. I virtually never try to have iTunes and City of Heroes loaded at the same time; iTunes has something over 28,000 songs on file now, and it causes my computer to slow to a crawl. Secondly, I noticed that iTunes had not actually opened, and that I had a message that my iPod was damaged and needed to be wiped and reinstalled.
My usual experience is that this is not actually the case, so I said no, and closed City of Heroes, and then tried to open iTunes. it wouldn't open.
Next I tried to reboot the computer. Several minutes later I checked on it and it had not booted. It was stuck at one of the boot-up text phases.
I rebooted again. It appeared to get stuck again.
I left it to take a shower, worried that my computer may have died and wondering what data I might have lost. Most of it is backed up but it occurred to me that some of the videos I've downloaded from iTunes may not be backed up yet. It was very vexing, though. Computer problems usually are.
I'd also noted that my iPod had not even charged, so I reminded myself to take my plug-in charger with me to work. If my computer was dead, I wouldn't be syncing the iPod for a few days.
When I returned after my shower, I was surprised to note that my computer had *almost* booted up. It was at the desktop, with the exception that there were no icons or nav bar. So... that was better than not booting up at all, I supposed. But still something was wrong.
I gathered my clothes for the day and returned and there was my full desktop with icons and nav bar. Oh! It booted after all, only really, really, R E A L L Y slowly.
I backed up some files but I was late for work, so I grabbed the iPod and took off.
At work I realized that my iPod was locked. I performed the ritual to unlock it, and discovered that it *had* recharged overnight after all. That made sense. Of course, it hadn't been docked, so all of the podcasts I'd already listened to Monday were still there.
At this point I'm not sure there's actually anything wrong with my computer itself. I'm not sure if the locked iPod somehow caused my computer to act weird, or if my wonky computer is about to die and caused my iPod to lock up. But I'm backing up files just in case.
(And survey says... iPod docks with iTunes tonight just fine. Hmmm.)
( Other stuff )
My usual experience is that this is not actually the case, so I said no, and closed City of Heroes, and then tried to open iTunes. it wouldn't open.
Next I tried to reboot the computer. Several minutes later I checked on it and it had not booted. It was stuck at one of the boot-up text phases.
I rebooted again. It appeared to get stuck again.
I left it to take a shower, worried that my computer may have died and wondering what data I might have lost. Most of it is backed up but it occurred to me that some of the videos I've downloaded from iTunes may not be backed up yet. It was very vexing, though. Computer problems usually are.
I'd also noted that my iPod had not even charged, so I reminded myself to take my plug-in charger with me to work. If my computer was dead, I wouldn't be syncing the iPod for a few days.
When I returned after my shower, I was surprised to note that my computer had *almost* booted up. It was at the desktop, with the exception that there were no icons or nav bar. So... that was better than not booting up at all, I supposed. But still something was wrong.
I gathered my clothes for the day and returned and there was my full desktop with icons and nav bar. Oh! It booted after all, only really, really, R E A L L Y slowly.
I backed up some files but I was late for work, so I grabbed the iPod and took off.
At work I realized that my iPod was locked. I performed the ritual to unlock it, and discovered that it *had* recharged overnight after all. That made sense. Of course, it hadn't been docked, so all of the podcasts I'd already listened to Monday were still there.
At this point I'm not sure there's actually anything wrong with my computer itself. I'm not sure if the locked iPod somehow caused my computer to act weird, or if my wonky computer is about to die and caused my iPod to lock up. But I'm backing up files just in case.
(And survey says... iPod docks with iTunes tonight just fine. Hmmm.)
( Other stuff )
