Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Re: [Apple iPod] Re: Backing up iTunes Library

I have 3 USB connected External drives with the smallest being 100Gig and my
largest being 500Gig.
Where did you get the idea that USB Drives only go as big as 5 gig?

David Sawyer
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----- Original Message -----
From: "teen.gamer" <teen.gamer@yahoo.com>
To: <AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 1:45 PM
Subject: [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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