Bugfixes are good – Eclecticism

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Well, that was a nice surprise. I just updated my Mac to OS X 10.2.8, and on restart, discovered a bug fix.

I’ve had an issue for a while now with my iPod where if I restart the machine with the iPod plugged in, it doesn’t behave correctly after the restart. It will mount to the Finder fine, but iTunes and iSync don’t recognize it at all. The only fix is to unmount and unplug it, shut down the machine, and then unplug the machine’s power cord and let it sit for five minutes before powering it on again — apparently this will clear a frozen FireWire port.

I forgot to unplug the iPod after installing the update tonight, though, and was pleasantly surprised to see iSync and iTunes launching after login, indicating that they saw the iPod without a hitch. Nice!