On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:51 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > I made sure gnome-volume-manager, dbus and hal are installed. But when > I launch gtkpod I get: > > '/media/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB' does not exist. Import > aborted. > > In fact /media/ipod does not exist. If I create it and mount the thing > manually I get permissions errors. > > How is this supposed to work? Is gnome-volume-manager supposed to > create the /media/ipod directory? Should it already exist? What are > the correct permissions? lee, make sure you turn off journalling on the ipod first. you'll need a mac os x system, and use the diskutil(1) tool. linux will only mount the ipod as a read-only FS if journalling is enabled, because the current linux support for journalling on HFS+ is not believed to be robust enough. --p