I think my question comes down to, 'how can I downgrade to the previous version of iTune?'
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Here's the background...
After the bad idea of 'upgrading' to High Sierra, and working through an endless list of problems, I just ran into a new one. iTunes will no longer recognize my iPod. It's the Classic 160GB (the best iPod ever).
The iPod shows up in the System Report as a USB device. It also shows up on the desktop as a volume. Clearly the Mac recognizes it as an iPod and a working USB device.
iTunes refuses to show it in the list of devices.
Manual For Ipod Classic
In a chat with Apple support, I was told my iPod is no longer supported.
Looking in the Console, I found message from iTunes such as these. This seems to confirm that iTunes no longer recognizes or supports the iPod classic.
Jan 1 14:48:05 Sofa iTunesHelper[447]: Entered:__thr_AMMuxedDeviceDisconnected, mux-device:440
Ipod Classic Generation
Jan 1 14:48:05 Sofa iTunes[1928]: tid:353b - Mux ID not found in mapping dictionary
Jan 1 14:48:05 Sofa iTunesHelper[447]: tid:6a5b - Mux ID not found in mapping dictionary
Jan 1 14:48:05 Sofa iTunes[1928]: tid:353b - Can't handle disconnect with invalid ecid
Jan 1 14:48:05 Sofa iTunesHelper[447]: tid:6a5b - Can't handle disconnect with invalid ecid
Jan 1 14:48:11 Sofa iTunes[1928]: got ConnectionInvalid message
Jan 1 14:49:09 Sofa iTunes[1928]: Entered:_AMMuxedVersion2DeviceConnected, mux-device:445
Jan 1 14:49:09 Sofa iTunesHelper[447]: Entered:_AMMuxedVersion2DeviceConnected, mux-device:445
Jan 1 14:49:09 Sofa iTunes[1928]: tid:1480b - unable to query device capabilities
Jan 1 14:49:09 Sofa iTunesHelper[447]: tid:6a5b - unable to query device capabilities
Jan 1 14:49:29 Sofa com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iTunesHelper.3288[447]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Jan 1 14:51:56 Sofa com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.quicklookd.408): Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iT unesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Versions/A/Resources/quicklookd. app
Jan 1 14:52:03 Sofa iTunesHelper[482]: Entered:_AMMuxedVersion2DeviceConnected, mux-device:1
Jan 1 14:52:03 Sofa iTunesHelper[482]: tid:1803 - unable to query device capabilities
iPod classic, macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)
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