Re: What happened to Christen iPod?

Here is my vote as well, I find it useful for my addled brain to separate my
iPod from my wife's, from my son etc.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Harris" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:53 AM
Subject: [ephpod] Re: What happened to Christen iPod?


>
> Well, I liked it.  I've got a bunch of different s, and I named them
> WGHiPod1, WGHiPod2, etc.  Having them "christened" helped my easily addled
> brain.  (But, then again, using different colored sharpies to color the
> firewire flap worked too.  I just haven't figured out the appropriate
place
> to deface my gen 3 ipods.)
>
> I was also hoping that, in some far off future time, specific syncing
> settings could be tied to a particular iPod through it's christened name.
>
> The "christen" process just writes a string into the
> iPod_Control\iTunes\DeviceInfo file.  That's right, isn't it?  Perhaps, if
> you decide to bring it back, you could have the "christen" process set the
> volume label too.  That ought to convince the folks that didn't think it
did
> anything that it in fact does.  Or did it do that all along?
>
> By the way: the "christen" process NEVER broke my iPod when I was on
crack.
> I don't know what all those other crack-head are complaining about.
>
> If "christen" doesn't make it back into Ephpod, life will go on.  Here's
one
> vote if favor of it, for what it's worth.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Joe Masters
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 1:46 PM
> To: Gordon Harris
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: [ephpod] Re: What happened to Christen iPod?
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>
> I thought that it had relatively little use...?  I can bring it back,
> but from a support standpoint, most people either said (a) it didn't
> work [usually referring to the fact that it didn't rename the iPod
> drive?], or (b) it broke their iPods [and I think they were on crack,
> but...]
>
> --joe
>
>
> Gordon Harris wrote:
>
> >In version 2.76, the "Christen iPod" menu item seems to have disappeared.
> >Did I miss something?  Did this feature need to go away for a reason?
> >
> >
> >
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