You just need to your iPod with iTunes for Mac. Restoring will erase and reformat the iPod's hard drive, reload the software with the Mac version and put it back to default settings, so make sure you have everything on your iPod backed up. Once the restore is complete follow the on screen instructions and it should connect to iTunes and give you a prompt to automatically update your library onto the fresh installation. If you want to update manually or using selected playlists choose no and it will default to manual mode and you can choose whatever setting you like. I'm in a position similar to Squirrel H. I have a 5th Generation iPod with 5,000 songs on it. It's formatted for use with my Windows PC.

I just bought a MacBook Pro and want to reformat the iPod for use with it. I have to transfer the music from the iPod to the Mac before I do that, though, or it will exist only on my soon-to-be-unused Windows machine. Does anyone know if the Mac will recognize the iPod while it is still formatted for Windows and allow me to tranfer the music into iTunes, after which I can reformat the iPod and reinstall the music from the Mac? Thanks for any help. IPods are designed primarily to sync with iTunes libraries automatically, and in a one-way sense. If you have synchronized your iPod with another computer, whether it be a Mac or a PC, you won't be able to automatically recover the contents of the iPod to the new computer.

To do this, you will need to pull off a few tricks (do a Google search) to make it happen manually, or just download and use one of the many available applications for accessing and recovering the contents of an iPod to a computer. Then format the iPod and sync it (or manage it manually) with your iTunes library as desired. Apple Footer • This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.

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Jul 05, 2014  Plug it into your Mac and restore it. The restore process should convert it to Mac OS X Extended Journaled. Or you can leave it as is since Macs and can read and write to a Windows formatted iPod. Sep 25, 2006 - I want to use the iPod with my new Mac, but it's formatted for Windows. Is there any way to convert my iPod from Windows to Mac?

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