Tuesday, August 5, 2008

[Apple iPod] Re: Backing up iTunes Library

I use a USB drive. These only go up to like 5 Gigs. So, if you have a
large library, this won't work. Exeral hard drive sound like what you
need...

--- In AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com, "Dave" <djlashman@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone -
>
> This is my very first posting to this group......
>
> I'm trying to figure out a way to successfully backup my entire
iTunes
> Library on something like a 500Gig external hard-drive. Here are my
> questions:
>
> - How and what do I to back up all of my iTunes Library stuff onto
an
> external hard-drive.
>
> - If I have a massive amount of iTunes Library stuff can I zip it
and
> put in on my iDisk as a backup? How would I do that? (I do have
> stuffit extender)
>
> - How easy is it to pull anything back up off of the external
> hard-drive to access my stuff? and would it be advisable to just
use
> the external hard-drive as the sole source for my library?
>
> One last question:
>
> - I'm thinking that if I backup up all of my iTunes library off of
> both my iMac and Macbook that I can somehow be able to have
everything
> sync up with the same iPod......having the same stuff on both the
iMac
> and Macbook by accessing the external hard-drive so that I don't
have
> two different libraries on two different computers.....just a
thought.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dave
>

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