Apple, I am angry!
By glazou on Sunday 21 June 2009, 20:07 - Mac - Permalink
The photos are stored on an iPod 80Gig. The original pictures were lost, after a computer refresh from scratch following a viral infection and crashes. I originally thought the photos could be easily retrieved using iTunes... After all, if I can understand and aceept I cannot copy on an arbitrary computer the songs I bought, I thought that restriction does not apply to my own photos. But iTunes did not let do that : if I sync the photos with a new local folder, iTunes tells me that the iPod photos will be trashed and replaced by the contents of the local folder. Hey, that's my own photos and I cannot reach them ?!? I need to buy a tool like Tansee or CopyTrans to extract private pictures from an iPod ? Apple, one word : FAIL... That's a superb advertisement for DVD Jon's doubletwist or Songbird...
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Except that at least Songbird doesn't do photo syncing at all. I don't know about doubletwist.
Check this out: http://code.google.com/p/tripod/
They use libgpod to copy photos on. You should be able to at least simply hack it to bring photos off. Or look at libgpod's fairly simple photo database manipulation API: http://www.gtkpod.org/libgpod/docs/...
The proprietary formats assholes have won the digital media player war. I know because I keep buying iPods too.
Ian
Hi, I think it might help you.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1930
@Adam: I tried it but it did not work
After reading this, I still wonder:
- Why do people use windows? Viral infections and crashes are a feature under that OS, right?
- Why do people use apple products? It ties you so much to their formats that you leave behind your whole freedom... sad, isnt it?