Hello all,

I have been using my G3 30GB iPod on a PC at home with EphPod; it is formatted FAT32, and I am using the latest 2.0.1 software.

I bought a dock and cable this weekend to hook up to my OS X 10.2.6 machine at work - when I arrived at work yesterday, I set the iPod in the cradle, the Mac recognized the iPod as a PC Exchange disk - OS X should have not problems readin/writing FAT32, right? - and iTunes 4 properly recognized the iPod for what it is, and I could see me entire iPod music collection.

If I click on a track on my iPod from within iTunes, I get an little exclamation point beside the track in the first column from the left - this happens for all tracks that I click on.

I ejected the iPod and took it out of the cradle - the database was still intact, but trying to play any songs just resulted in it skipping to the next track - none of the tracks on the iPod would play!

When I got home, a rebuild of the database from within EphPod said that there was no music on the disk, and it removed the entire database! I verified that, indeed, the disk was empty! My Mac at work had erased everything when I put it in the dock...

I reformatted at home last night, put some music on the iPod, everything working fine. I tried again this morning at work, and the same thing has happened...

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening and is there a work around, other than formatting the disk as HFS+ and using MacOpenener on the Windows machine... I would think that I should be able to work with a PC-iPod just fine on the Mac.

Thanks,

Jeff