Over the weekend, I think I accidentally let my iPad drain its battery
all the way, and then recharged it.

  Today, when I plugged it into that same Mac, it was recognized and I
was offered a fresh opportunity to update it to 5.0 -- which I did with
no mishaps or hiccups.

  So:  It appears to have resolved itself!

David Gillett


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Subject: [PCBUILD] Did I kill my iPad?
From: [log in to unmask]
Date: Mon, October 24, 2011 8:42 am
To: [log in to unmask]

 Last week, I hooked my iPad to my MacBook and opted to download and
install IOS 5 onto the iPad. About six hours later (still showing hours
to go...), I shut down the Mac, figuring I would try again later from
work -- hoping it would be possible to resume the download, but ready to
accept that it might be necessary to start over.

 What I did NOT anticipate, though, was that iTunes on my MacBook no
longer notices when my iPad is attached. And that, in turn means that I
no longer have access to the "Restore my iPad to its defaults" function
which I might otherwise be tempted to try as a fix.

 There are some other things I can try and haven't yet, but has anyone
seen or heard of something like this? (My subject line is an
exaggeration -- the iPad still works, it's just the connection to iTunes
that seems to be lost. I have iTunes on a couple of Windows machines --
one of the things I haven't tried yet is connectng to one of them, in
case it is iTunes on that Mac that is the problem.)

David Gillett


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