So for the first time today, I got this error message:
“Another user on this computer is using the iPod software, so iTunes is unable to communicate with this iPod. Please ask the other user to log out.”
This error isn’t really documented well as Google only found 3 sites and only 1 with a useful answer: iLounge
I’m pretty sure it has to do something with my converting from Admin to User, but I made sure no other user was logged on besides me and even killed iTunes.exe. Didn’t really help. I tried undocking the iPod Nano and redocking it. Didn’t help either.
Apparently, there’s a process called ipodservices.exe that runs under SYSTEM. After killing that process, I was able to load my Nano into iTunes. I do have to admit I upgraded my iTunes yesterday to the latest version and had to install it with my Admin account. Maybe that was why this error occured.