Aug 20, '03 09:24:00AM • Contributed by: WildBill
I talked to my buddy, who has two Macs and and iPod, and he'd never seen that behavior. His iTunes always gave a notice saying that the iPod was already sync'd with a different computer. After poking around, I found out what caused it. In the directory ~/Library -> Preferences -> ByHost, there is supposed to be a file called "com.apple.iTunes.some_string.plist" (where some_string is the machine's Ethernet address in hex). From CCCing the OS, I had two files - one for the Cube's Ethernet address and one for the TiBook. It so happens that the Cube's address is alphanumerically first, and that's what iTunes was picking up.
So when I hooked the iPod to the TiBook, iTunes thought it was connected to the Cube, and since there was no music stored on the TiBook, it wiped the iPod. Deleting the file with the Cube's Ethernet address fixed the issue and made the TiBook's iTunes behave properly.
