iPod restored at last

After a couple of months of trial and error I eventually got my iPod to come back to life. Problem was that it had locked with a little padlock appearing on the desktop icon. Nothing would clear the lock and none of the proposed solutions worked.

Today I decided that I couldn't do any more harm since it wasn't working anyway, so I just went into the Mac's Disk Utility and erased the iPod.

IT WORKED! The lock disappeared and then iTunes restored from the backup.