Are you facing error -69 on your iPod? You do not have a backup of your data and your data is about to be lost. You need iPod recovery software to recover your music in such a case.
iPod is an excellent discovery from Apple that has completely revolutionized the way music lovers search for music. This slim and compact device has a large memory capacity to store a large number of audio and video files, basically music files. With an earphone connected, the device allows privacy when listening to music. Nowadays, you can carry the device anywhere and anytime in your pocket. iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application that manages iPod content and is also used to play and organize digital music and video files. However, when you try to sync files to any iPod in iTunes on Windows computer, many times you encounter error message -69 which says:
“Error attempting to copy to disk. An unknown error occurred (-69)”
Consider a practical situation where you had some music on your iPod. You have iTunes on your Windows based system and you have synced the iPod with your iTunes. After syncing, you have cut and pasted the music from your iTunes to your iPod. But while trying to transfer the music, it encounters the error message defined above. Now you don’t have the music file neither in iTunes nor in the iPhone.
Reasons:
This error occurs when iTunes tries to send files to your iPod, but a file becomes unusable due to corruption.
Resolutions:
In order to resolve the issue mentioned above, please do the following steps after updating to the latest version of iTunes:
1. Right-click your iPod icon in the iTunes Source panel and choose Sync Songs from the context menu.
2. The problem file name appears on the screen at the top of the iTunes windows while the iPod is being updated. Remove the file from the music list to sync with your iPod
3. Select iPod in iTunes Source panel
4. Click the Summary tab.
5. Select the “Sync only marked songs and videos” checkbox
6. Select the required item under Library in the sidebar and find the corrupted file in the list
7. Deselect the check box next to the file name.
However, if the above procedure does not solve your problem, you need to iPod recovery software to recover the file lost in the process commented above.
iPod recovery software is a ‘Do It Yourself’ utility that allows users an easy 3-step recovery process. Supports audio files including MOV, VVI, WAV, MIDI, OGG, AIFF, MP4, RPS, ASF, WMA, WMV, AU, MP3.