I have a 2020 Mac mini with an M1 processor running Sonoma 14.4. I recently bought an iFlash Solo and a 512gb Sandisk SD card that is formatted with exFAT. I was able to disassemble my iPod and replace both the hard drive and the battery.
When I power up my iPod, it displays the "Connect to a computer" screen. Okay, sure!
When I plug in my iPod, the Finder launches and recognizes that there's an iPod connected to it. It then asks me to restore the iPod, to which I say "yeah, of course, let's do it."
The Mac mini spins for a moment, then prompts me with a security dialog from AMPDevicesAgent for my username and password. I give it my credentials, and then... nothing.
The Mac mini just sits on a screen that says "iPod Recovery Mode" and "Your Mac is restoring the software on this iPod". There are no progress indicators anywhere on this screen (although one briefly does appear and disappear after I click the "restore" button and before the AMPDevicesAgent security dialogue appears).
It feels like it's silently failing with no additional steps I can take to restore this device to its former glory (with substantially more space, of course).
Here are some debugging steps I've taken so far:
* I tried three different 30-pin cables, and I tried using a USB-C dock and directly connecting to the machine. The dock doesn't seem to want to work right, but the connection seems strong when I go directly into the back on my Mac mini. Grateful that this machine still has USB-A ports.
* I directly mounted the SD card to this machine and it recognized it immediately.
* I opened the Console and searched for any entries created by AMPDevicesAgent. Shortly after I grant it permission to do its thing, it creates an error report and saves it to a file like ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Retired/AMPDevicesAgent-2024-07-08-225324.ips. There isn't much in this report, but I'm happy to share its contents if someone thinks it'll help
Things I haven't tried:
* A different SD card. I suppose I have a 32gb card laying around I can test, but I'd obviously like to use this bigger one.
* A different machine. I do have a 2019 MacBook Pro laying around that I could try, but I'd need to use the same USB dock to connect to it as it's the only dongle at my disposal at the moment. I also think there ''might'' be an old Windows 7 laptop laying in the basement, but I'm not positive I even have the power cable for it, and besides, my music library is here on this Mac.
Any suggestions?