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Dear Internets,
I have a problem, which is my young daughter was listening to my iPod and went messing with the settings (I told her not to, but does she listen? She does not), and set the maximum volume to quite soft. When she was doing that, she put in a 4-digit password, which she promptly forgot. What can i do? Google-found pages advise me that I should use windows explorer to navigate to the iPod's "IPod Control\Device" folder and delete the file called "volume locked" -- I did this to no avail. (Somehow the iPod is only available via explorer while iTunes is synching its content, then it disappears. Google also tells me there should be a way of enabling it always to show up in Explorer but I'm not getting anywhere with that.) I'd be happy to do a cold reboot of the iPod if only I knew how. Pressing the Menu button and the center button together for a few seconds appears to do a soft reboot, and not to affect the Max Volume setting.

Help please! I want to listen to my music loud!

posted morning of Thursday, July 24th, 2008
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I wasn't even aware that there was such a feature. Good luck.

posted morning of July 24th, 2008 by badger

Thanks -- word from e-mail is that if I choose "Restore" from iTunes, it will reinstall my iPod with the original settings; then I can reload all my music. (I also did not know there was such a setting, before Sylvia went and monkeyed with it. If you're going to have young kids listening to your iPod, probly a good idea to lock this beforehand.)

posted morning of July 24th, 2008 by Jeremy

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