iPhone Bug?
Apparently the Apple iPhone might have a littel nasty bug that is stopping itunes users with massive collections of songs. Turns out that the iPhone will not syn correctly with an external itunes library. This is a big problem for myself as well as others who have over 60 gigs of music in their collections. I was forced to use an external HD for my itunes library sinec i only have a macbook pro with a 100GB drive. I for sure will not purchse an iphone untill they fix this bug. www.pqdvd.com says:
Jamie Phelps has possibly stumbled upon a nasty iPhone synching bug when keeping one’s iTunes library on an external hard drive. While tips like our how-tos for setting up iTunes with external drives or even an AirPort Disk work pretty well even when synching iPods with them, Jamie found that his iPhone gets the brainwash treatment when he’s away from the drive containing his external iTunes library. As the story goes, Jamie synched his iPhone with a few songs and playlists, made a couple new playlists and then synched again. Hitting the road, however, and getting away from his external iTunes library drive is when the bug rears its nasty head: plugging the iPhone in while on the go caused iTunes to wipe out the new playlists and songs from the second sync operation, basically reverting them to their state before the second sync. To verify, Jamie even got adventurous and tried this whole thing a second time, once again watching iTunes blow away changes from the previous iPhone sync when the external media library isn’t mounted.