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A slightly easier way...
Authored by: Loren on Jul 01, '02 02:47:05PM

If you have tinkertool installed, just set your preferences so you can see invisible & system files. Then navigate down the folders in your favorite way. I like single-clicking in column view, but you might prefer to ...
Double-Click on your iPod
Double-Click on iPod_Control
Double-Click on Music
Double-Click on any of the f folders...

Loren



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A slightly easier way...
Authored by: nonjo on Jul 01, '02 05:18:39PM

Yes, tinkertool is a good way to do this, but only if you don't mind seeing invisible files throughout your travels: the effect is not confined to your iPod only. You also have to restart the Finder to enable this, which doesn't hurt, but is something you routinely do unless it is locked up. Furthermore, you have to reset the tinkertool option and the finder again to restore your mac to its previous state.

Using the "Go to" trick is probably easier once you know where to look.



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a far easier way of finding a specific song...
Authored by: monkeyvoodoo on Jul 02, '02 04:18:15AM
I'd recommend just firing up Terminal.app, cd'ing into /Volumes/iPod/iPod_Control (where "iPod" is the name of your iPod), and doing a

find . | grep songname

Where "songname" is a word that appears in the name of the song (be careful to prefix a space with a backslash in the terminal). this will output the path to the file you're looking for.

As I've found after putting a large number of songs on my iPod, this is far easier than using the finder to visually look through the entire contents of each folder.

^_^



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an even far easier way of finding a specific song...
Authored by: fxg97873 on Aug 16, '02 04:17:04PM
Use the Finder's "Go to Folder..." function to locate the Music folder inside
the iPod_Control folder.

Open Sherlock
Drag the Music folder to Sherlock's volume selection window.

The Music folder is now a search selection.

Click on the "Custom" radio button and select "Edit" from its pop-down menu.

In Advance options, make sure that "is" checkbox is selected and that "invisible" has been selected from its pop-down menu.

Click OK

Deselect all the other volumes except for the Music folder
Type the name of the song you are looking for and click Sherlock's search button.

Happy Hacking!

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