Comment 8 for bug 587544

No, that last comment, should have said Step 9. - might have been <save changes>.

I can now confirm, having unwittingly gone through all this again, that step 9 was in fact:

9. So I pressed [x] to close the window without saving changes

And that gtkpod did in fact insist on the sync and file deletion despite this.

The second time, strangley it said it had again removed 25 duplicates. They look like the same duplicates it removed before.