Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, You confirm my suspicions. A great music player, but not for picture storage. Bryan On Sep 12, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > Bryan Caldwell asked: >>>> Have you (or anyone else) actually used the iPod/Card Reader to >>>> store >> images yet? <<<<<<< > > Hi Bryan, > With sad regret!! :-( Well it was OK for a few test down loads, but > what I > ran into was everytime I hardly brushed the "finger touch pad" it > seemed to > require some kind of language re-programming. It kept being brushed and > changing the language to as many languages there must be in the world. > And > without any distinct instructions how to get it back to English the > IPOD > became absolutely useless. > > Finally found someone in Phoenix to get it back to English and we > never took > it on the road again so we could down load the memory cards during the > day...... simple answer? We bought a half dozen 256 memory cards! > Screw the > iPOD! > > Then one day as we were unloading a bunch of stuff in our digs it was > turned > on and it was back to some absolutely unrecognizable language, so we > shut it > off and left it until we returned to home office. We knew there was a > bunch > of images on it that we required from earlier card down loads, so we > left > it. > > Then the complete disaster.................. When we arrived home the > person > who was supposed to understand iPOD operation wasn't too sure about the > language thing and unfortunately to our later sorrow, wasn't as > skilled at > operating it as we'd been lead to believe. And after copious amount of > iPOD > instruction reading! > > By the time he had figured out how to get to the English language and > touching everything that appeared to do something he had successfully > deleted everything stored in it!!!!!!!!! And heaven knows in what > language!! > > So the ipod? hell I wouldn't buy it if it were the only storage > equipment in > the world! The instructions are a total waste of time and absolutely > useless! Where is it now? Heck I gave it to my grandson who thought I'd > given him a gold bar and he's merrily using it to store his music! :-) > > Picture storage? NOT ON YOUR LIFE! There must be a much better storage > equipment than the damn useless iPOD! > > That's the part I can repeat! :-) The rest in any language whether you > can > understand it or not, everyone knows exactly how I feel! :-( > ted > >