IPOD: DO not Disconnect

stickfig13
stickfig13 Posts: 1,532
edited February 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
Unpluging it before it says "OK to disconnect" will hurt it?

Even if it's not transferring files?
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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    It reminds me of Desmond in the hatch...and entering The Numbers every 108 minutes....
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  • DeLukin
    DeLukin Posts: 2,757
    I've done it before with no problem. I think that's a carry-over Mac thing. You have to physically eject USB drives and such on Macs before you disconnect them or you get nasty errors - even if the device wasn't actively doing anything. I would think it COULD cause problems if you were in the middle of transferring files and did it, but I'm not brave enough to find out for sure...
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  • CJMST3K
    CJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    dude... the "Do Not Disconnect" message is the iPod's "Do Not Disturb" sign. It's getting-it-on with your PC. Let it do it's business. Don't be a pod-blocker.
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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    CJMST3K wrote:
    dude... the "Do Not Disconnect" message is the iPod's "Do Not Disturb" sign. It's getting-it-on with your PC. Let it do it's business. Don't be a pod-blocker.

    THat was the single funniest thing I've read all week!
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,965
    i have had problems disconnecting it without ejecting it when it says that. it can mess up certain songs.
  • Boston Lou
    Boston Lou Posts: 280
    i think they put that message on there for shits and giggles

    disconnect it all you like

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  • so-much-clearer
    so-much-clearer Posts: 303
    It's just like how you're never supposed to just pull out a USB flash drive without ejecting it first. I've seen them have permanent damage pulling it out when I thought they were no longer transferring.

    I would not take a chance on something as expensive as an iPod.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Is it really such a burden to press eject and wait 3 seconds? If you're that pressed for time, maybe you should have skipped the ipod update entirely. ;)
  • stickfig13
    stickfig13 Posts: 1,532
    soulsinging wrote:
    Is it really such a burden to press eject and wait 3 seconds? If you're that pressed for time, maybe you should have skipped the ipod update entirely. ;)


    I did it by accident....I have 3 seconds
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    stickfig13 wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    Is it really such a burden to press eject and wait 3 seconds? If you're that pressed for time, maybe you should have skipped the ipod update entirely. ;)


    I did it by accident....I have 3 seconds

    Gotcha. I'm sure everything's fine. I've done it too. I just plugged it back in to make sure everything's kosher and pressed eject again.
  • PJGARDEN
    PJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    CJMST3K wrote:
    dude... the "Do Not Disconnect" message is the iPod's "Do Not Disturb" sign. It's getting-it-on with your PC. Let it do it's business. Don't be a pod-blocker.

    That was really funny :lol:

    I have done it a couple of times when my computer froze and I never hurt anything. I wouldn't make a habit of it though.
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    DeLukin wrote:
    I've done it before with no problem. I think that's a carry-over Mac thing. You have to physically eject USB drives and such on Macs before you disconnect them or you get nasty errors - even if the device wasn't actively doing anything. I would think it COULD cause problems if you were in the middle of transferring files and did it, but I'm not brave enough to find out for sure...

    I have a mac, and while i do eject things i plug in, i dont htink you need to eject your ipod. I always just unplug it and nothing happens.
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  • DeLukin
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    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    I have a mac, and while i do eject things i plug in, i dont htink you need to eject your ipod. I always just unplug it and nothing happens.
    Yea, but I think technically you're supposed to eject your iPod from iTunes first. And if you ever just yank a USB device from a mac without ejecting it first you get an error (which you don't get on PCs). It's basically a precaution that Macs have against corrupting data - it doesn't mean that data WILL get corrupted every time you don't eject properly, just that it could...
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  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    My favorite girl got an mp3 phone a couple of years ago and we stopped by my office to load some songs on it for her. Well, she got a call while the phone and the computere were "getting it on" and it fucked the thing up big time. We spent the next five or six hours trying to fix it....and finally figured it out
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    pjhawks wrote:
    i have had problems disconnecting it without ejecting it

    (that's what she said.)

    sorry. had to be done. :D
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  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    AmentsChick wrote:
    It reminds me of Desmond in the hatch...and entering The Numbers every 108 minutes....
    lol :D

    true, both are very ominous warnings....
  • so-much-clearer
    so-much-clearer Posts: 303
    DeLukin wrote:
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    I have a mac, and while i do eject things i plug in, i dont htink you need to eject your ipod. I always just unplug it and nothing happens.
    Yea, but I think technically you're supposed to eject your iPod from iTunes first. And if you ever just yank a USB device from a mac without ejecting it first you get an error (which you don't get on PCs). It's basically a precaution that Macs have against corrupting data - it doesn't mean that data WILL get corrupted every time you don't eject properly, just that it could...
    I dunno, like I said I've seen flash drives get corrupted by pulling them out even when they didn't seem to be doing anything. I don't trust Windows to not fuck up an iPod. The only OS that might be ok just pulling it out of is Linux.
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