Dan A Currie wrote: > Hello All, > > My daughters Beige G3/500, 768 MB RAM, OS 10.2.8 is making her and my > life crazy again. > > I bought her a first generation iShuffle and loaded the software, > updated iTunes and followed the instruction. She loaded about forty > songs into iTunes from different CD’s and uploaded to the iShuffle with > no problem. > > A couple of days ago she uploaded about 15 more songs to the iTunes > library and then hooked up the iShuffle, it did not readily show up on > the desktop and when it did the last letter in it’s name was some > unknown letter / character that looked like a trapezoid. > > I clicked Autofill and it said updating complete but none of the new > songs were added. I added 5 songs to the library myself with the same > result. > > Reasonable suggestions welcome, As opposed to what? Strange limitation to put on a request for help. In any case... You might try this valuable resource provided by Apple, it has troubleshooting info: http://www.apple.com/support/ipodshuffle/ One of the methods suggested is to reset the shuffle. Have you tried that? Its a good place to start. Good luck, and let me suggest that "reasonable" is vastly over rated. -- Michael Prete _____________ More will be revealed. Richard Bach, "Illusions"