iPod synchronisation error (-48)
February 28th, 2010
I ran into a problem with iTunes this morning where it would tell me that it couldn’t synch my iPod—which wasn’t a problem until this morning. I’ve had issues before concerning synchronizing and copying music to my iPod, which had to do with the speed of the usb port I used. Apparently the usb ports on the front of you pc are slower than the ones at the back. Changing to one at the back solved my copying problem.
And now this. For some reason a negative error-code looks scarier than a positive one so I thought I’d be in a fix and no mistake. I could still copy music to my iPod but I’d get the Dutch errormessage “Er heeft zich een onbekende fout voorgedaan (-48)” every 30 seconds or so.
A quick google suggested the solution: run chkdsk on your iPod’s associated drive letter, using the \F switch. This means Windows checks the physical HD of your iPod and fixes any errors it may find.
And it fixed my problem!
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