[Ti] iPod copy on Big Al

Loren Schooley loren at flash.net
Wed May 21 15:50:32 PDT 2003


On 5/21/03 2:13 PM, "A.J.Bos" <Arjan.Bos at icu.nl> wrote:

> 
> On woensdag, mei 21, 2003, at 18:49 Europe/Amsterdam, Javier Pedreira
> (Wicho) wrote:
> 
>> Steve Wozniak said on 19/5/2003:
>> 
>>> Well, I have some answers to the question about how to copy the
>>> music from one iPod to another. [...]
>> 
>> I know I'm late to this thread, but from today's edition of Macintouch:
>> 
> <snip/>
>> 
>> I don't really know if "cloning and iPod" really does what Steve
>> wants to do and I don't own an iPod -yet- to check, but I'd give it a
>> try.
> 
> And if you're really really adventurous, then you could always power-up
> terminal.app and use the unix command 'dd' which lets you make a bit
> exact copy. I haven't used in since I switched, but I recall typing
> things like:
> cat /Volumes/IPod1 | dd > /Volumes/IPod2, although that was on linux.
> You might have to dig even deeper than that and find the actual device
> names of the iPods.
> 

No matter what or how I try to write to an ipod, I don't have enuff
permission.

iTunes and other programs can write 777 i.e. -rwxrwxrwx

But with dd, ditto, touch, cp et super sudo al all that I can do is:

-rwxr-xr-x

*shrug*




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