Originally Posted by JohnD2000:
“Sorry for being a complete eejit, but are you saying you dont have a copy of your library on hard disk? Why not?
I can't image why anyone would spend time ripping CD's only to delete the iTunes library after loading the iPOD. That's just seems crazy, unless I'm really missing something here. For me, the iPod is just a mobile copy. No need to back it up.
My library is, of course, backed up. I've had 2 external hard disks fail, so backups have been essential.”
If you had read my post u would have seen "I know I could just keep all the files in the iPod folder and copy them all to the external drive, but this isnt practical for me
and I have limited disk space."
I have most stuff on a seperate drive as 192kbps mp3's which i converted to 128kbps aac for the ipod.
I want to be able to back up the entire ipod (files/settings etc) to an external drive so if there are any probs with ipod, say i need to format, i can easily just put everything back from the external disk without messing about in itunes.