Out of the blue I got this message from iTunes today:
iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes.
Fair enough, foo happens, life goes on. Or so I thought. When you restore your iPod and reboot it, the same message comes back! Over and over.
The solution, it turns out according to the collective wisdom of the blogs, is to change the drive letter of your iPod in Computer Manager.
Mine had, for reasons not yet understood, changed from J: to H: - which was in use as a network-mapped home drive. This conflict was being reported in iTunes as an iPod in Recovery Mode.
It seems like all I do these days is download iTunes updates, and the messages are not getting any better when it goes belly-up.
Apple, this is turning into a one way relationship!
Listening To: Zephyr Timbre, Absrtakt Fusion