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Hi,
Assume I know nothing .... easy, I know.
My daughter has an ipod and keeps adding stuff to it. Her laptop is starting to run out of memory, so I suggested copying some stuff to DVD and then freeing up memory. However, she tells me that IF the stuff is not available on the laptop, the ipod will not sync properly and stuff will be erased from the ipod.
Is this true? You have to have everything on the laptop (via itunes) each time you connect the ipod?
I'm an mp3 (non-ipod) man myself and find it incredible that you can't just drag and drop relevant stuff between the two as much or as little as you want.
Easy advice very much appreciated.
Thanks,
kind of true - the best bet is to buy an external drive and point itunes at that
or you can just not sync it?
i just drag and drop album by album using itunes. so i could delete everything on it from my pc afterwards if i want. never trusted the sync thing really in case i mess up and delete all my stuff 🙂
itunes is a complete nightmare IME...we have given up on it.
Change the option on Itunes to manually manage the music.. This should allow you to drag and drop
Foxy - what do you use instead?
erbii and sadexpunk - going to try that - sounds like a good option to me.
Rob - an option she wants to avoid if we can help it - tight like her old man!
Cheers everyone.
I never can understand what people mean when they say iTunes is a nightmare. I know someone who uses a windows alternative and has nothing but problems with it. The only issues I hear about involve iTunes running on WinTel machines, which is more to do with Windows crappy OS. Anyhoo, putting music onto DVD is fine as a backup, but if you need to access those tracks, they have to be back on the machine so that iTunes can find them; this is true of any software that has a library function. If the tracks are not there then the application can't use them. Turn off automatic syncing, then you can drag and drop tracks easily, and iTunes won't automatically try to update the iPod every time it's connected. Then what you do is buy a nice big 500Gb or 1Tb external drive, copy the iTunes library to it then command click on iTunes and direct it to the new library location when the dialogue box comes up on screen.