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Jan
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08-01-2000

Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 9:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How do you figure out what USB connection you have?? I guess I can assume that, since I bought my computer in Apr 2001 and since it is only loaded with Win 98, therefore, I probably have USB1 ????

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, you can assume that, Jan :-)

Jan
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08-01-2000

Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 12:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Yank. I was afraid of that ... and it seems like just yesterday that I paid a king's ransom for this lemon. :-):-)

Pcakes2
Member

08-29-2001

Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 1:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just found out that my lil cousin is in the new Apple catalog...she's on page 4...with the green iPod. I'm so proud!!!

Maris
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03-28-2002

Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 5:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Has anyone ever gotten error "502" when trying to connect to the iStore?

Crossfire
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08-07-2001

Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 6:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hmmm.


quote:

HTTP Error 502 - Bad gateway
Introduction
A server (not necessarily a Web server) is acting as a gateway or proxy to fulfil the request by the client (e.g. your Web browser or our CheckUpDown robot) to access the requested URL. This server received an invalid response from an upstream server it accessed to fulfil the request.

This usually does not mean that the upstream server is down (no response to the gateway/proxy), but rather that the upstream server and the gateway/proxy do not agree on the protocol for exchanging data. Given that Internet protocols are quite clear, it often means that one or both machines have been incorrectly or incompletely programmed.




Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 6:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
crap, so what does that translate to?

Crossfire
Member

08-07-2001

Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I honestly don't know, that is an unusual one. I guess it means try later and hope someone fixed the funky gateway. If it persists, I guess I'd contact the store, and/or your ISP.

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 7:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I guess I will have to contact the iStore. Thanks crossfire.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Monday, January 31, 2005 - 1:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That sounds like it may be related to file sharing? Do you have file sharing checked off in your options, or the look for shared music option? Perhaps, if your box is checked that says "Share my music", and someone had their "Find shared music" option checked, maybe their computer was trying to look at yours?

I dunno. I don't understand that "feature" of iTunes, but maybe it has something to do with that.

Maris, go to the ipod online help forums. I have asked questions in there, and people have gotten back to me pretty quickly.

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Monday, January 31, 2005 - 12:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
options? in what? I just loaded everything up yesterday which in itself is a huge story. I bought my son an IPOD never realizing that it doesnt work with ME. So I had to buy XP and load that up in the computer which ended up conflicting with my firewall, four hours after calls with Microsoft and RR, I got everthing working except my istore is no longer working, it was working in my old set up. So I cant log in and he has songs in his library we cant access

where would I find options? in IPOD? in my windows? in Istore?

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Monday, January 31, 2005 - 12:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ohhh!! I think know the library answer!!! OK, let's fix that first. If I am reading correctly, you and your son use different logon identities, so you each have your own desktops/favourites etc. So your son has been downloading/ripping music, and putting them in HIS "My Music" folder (or whereever he has put them). My bf and I had this problem.

What he needs to do with his music, is put it in the SHARED area. Best if it's in his own music folder within the Shared area.

1. Open a My Documents window. Then, there should be a shortcut on the right saying "Shared Documents". Click on it, and once it is open, see if there is a My Music folder. If yes, good, if no, create one. Keep this window open for later use.

2. In a new window, open My Computer. You should see at the top, a few folders, one is Shared Documents and then there may be more folders, labelled according to users (ie. Maris's Documents, Son's Documents). As well, there will be a C: drive icon, which may also come in handy later.

3. If you see your SON'S folder, click on it, and it should open up all his stuff. There should be a music folder there, that may be where he is storing his music (Or get him to find the folder where he does store it. Some use the itunes folder, some use the "My Shared Folder" if they use Kazaa).

4. So you should have two windows open. One is the Shared Music folder, and one is the folder that has your son's music in it. If I were you, within the Shared music folder, create a Son's Music folder, and open it in that window.

5. Now have your son transfer ALL of his music files into the shared music folder. This allows those files to been seen/accessed by all users, which is good with itunes (the program ipod uses).

I hope this may be a solution to the access issues regarding your son's music. Maybe I read the post wrong.

Have you guys tried a file search for mp3s? Yesterday I helped my mother find her music on her computer, and she didn't know about file search. lol.

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The options I was talking about was in iTunes, the software that should come with the iPod. But I'm not even sure you've gotten that far yet!! It sounds like you're having a big old headache of a time!! Sigh....WindowsME....source of almost all evil!! LOL. Are you on XP now, or did you have to go back to ME?

I'm not familiar with iStore. What is it? Where you buy music? I tried looking it up, but I only ended up with non-apple sites.

I'm wondering if the installation of XP has affected your various computer UserIDs. Are you still getting that screen when you reboot, that allows you to choose a person to log on as? If no, it sounds like things have been reset, and you may have to reassign userIDs, which IS a royal pain in the a$$.

Let me know if any of these things are helpful, or other things going on with your computer. I am no Draheid, but I am a "gear queer" and I love gadgets. I have every electronic gadget you could think of. I have a gadget fetish I think. LOL. So hopefully we can help you through this.

I am leaving for school now, and I work tonight, so won't be home til around midnight pacific time, so I'll write back tomorrow to any questions you have.

It sounds like maybe the HTTP error message had something to do with your initial firewall problems.

Maris, I didn't mean to make you panic. It sounds like you are having more than one problem, so we'll probably have to fix everything one at a time. I hope I can help. We'll talk tomorrow.



Kali



Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Monday, January 31, 2005 - 12:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
yep he has been buying the music at apples iStore. I dont let him download songs without paying for them so we use iStore. We do have XP loaded it up yesterday. Maybe the problem is the sharing thing. I will check it out.

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Monday, January 31, 2005 - 5:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you eeyore, we are all feeling very how right now. We are in the music store, account is back up and working so time to set up the allowance!!!! I might just buy me an ipod.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Tuesday, February 01, 2005 - 2:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ha Maris, you would laugh at my mom. She bought an iPod, and I walked her through the first part, and got her all set up with music etc. Then, her hard drive fried, and she lost everything. So then she plugs in the ipod, and it clears it (because it will just duplicate whatever your library is, empty or full). So then....she's so stubborn and impatient....because she had no music on the ipod, and no music on her hard drive anymore, she went back to using her discman!! hahaha.

The ipod really IS a production. Once you experience the little annoying quirks about it, you will know how to work around them. LOL.

Let me know if you need to figure out anything else.

Oh, might I recommend this program, which I use:

iPod Agent

It is a great little program, that allows you to download emails, websites, movie times, etc to your ipod, FOR WINDOWS. There are all of those extras for Mac users, but not for Windows. So now someone came up with a program to allow us to use those features. Worth checking out. You can choose which websites, etc.

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 7:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
eeyore, fixed the file sharing thing (did as you suggested) so now it looks like number one son is happy.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 8:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh that's awesome Maris!! Now we are just counting the days until you buy your own?