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I hate hints like this
Authored by: Lectrick on Mar 31, '05 12:58:05PM

I have to admit that I hate hints like this because if you care about your music at all, you WILL one day be sorry!! I recently had my iPod "lose" all my music after I disconnected it too soon, and if I hadn't been synchronizing it with my computer, all would have been lost. If you are too cheap to upgrade a 40 gigabyte hard drive after having purchased a $300+ 40gb iPod, then you deserve what's coming to you.

I have full-capacity backups of all my hard drives (i.e., two 250gb drives, etc.) and it has saved my butt more than once... Don't drive without a seatbelt and don't compute without a backup!! Your data is too important for cheap hints like this. Hard drives are cheap as heck these days, the cost savings is NOT worth the cost in labor it would take you to restore it all manually...

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I hate hints like this
Authored by: ms_t_rie on Mar 31, '05 02:39:01PM

I think that's the part that is missing from the hint, at least one good backup should be somewhere!

I have my music off my Powerbook's hard drive (I can't just upgrade that so easily!) to save space, but I have a complete backup of the Powerbook drive, plus another backup of all the music. For me, I just disabled the auto-sync, it's easy enough for me to just drag the files onto the iPod manually.

If I ever have to reset the iPod, I'll just hook up the external drive which holds my backup and copy the music back on. In the meantime, I can enjoy having that extra 37GB returned on my limited space (60GB) Powerbook drive.



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