Quick Fix for Missing Music/Video After iOS 4.2 Update

John — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:14:56 +0000

Yesterday heralded the much anticipated public release of iOS 4.2 (giving the iPad it’s first dose of iOS 4 and all the goodies contained therein) and the update was downloaded by quite a few people – myself included. Unfortunately, it would appear at first glance as though the update completely wiped out all of the music on my iPhone while doing the update. Except that it didn’t.

The music / video files are all still there – even if the iPod app doesn’t appear to recognize that fact. Thankfully – it’s not terribly difficult to GET the iPod app to recognize that the files are there.

I was able to do so a few minutes ago by hooking my iPhone up to my mac. iTunes opened and said it was syncing the phone. I cancelled the sync (the phone is synced with another mac, not this one) then opened itunes on the phone – I got the message “updating library… this may take a few minutes” before poof – all of my media and playlists appeared. It would seem that kicking off the sync is what triggers this – and my guess is it was supposed to happen during the update process but for some reason did not.

iPhone blogging: now available on Missing Link

John — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:11:34 +0000

Since I successfully upgraded the version of WordPress that powers Missing Link, I’m now able to post updates from my iPhone, allowing me to capture my thoughts as they happen.

It’s pretty cool.

Now Its time fight to stay awake – chocolate covered coffee beans are only sorta working.

Must. Take. Nap.

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Quick Fix for Missing Music/Video After iOS 4.2 Update

iPhone blogging: now available on Missing Link