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Store MP3s only on an iPod to save hard drive space
Authored by: bakalite on Mar 31, '05 05:45:42PM

1) There are plenty of reasons to store stuff on the ipod and not in itunes. Let's say you actually OWN the CD, yes, this does occasionally happen. Maybe you want to listen to it, but you don't need it on itunes. Or maybe it's an audio book, and you have the CD (or not) and you only want to listent to it once.

2) I don't get why the original poster doesn't just turn auto synching off.

3) Backup: All these backup methods you guys are talking about are very nice, until you have some file corruption and it spreads to your backup because you didn't realize it. If you actually care about your data, you need to have 2 backups, one off site, and they need to be incremental, meaning that you never delete anything. The easiest way to do this is with retrospect. I personally do not backup off site, but I have two incremental backups on site. Back when I had an all digital recording studio we used to say "If you don't have it in 3 places, you don't have it."

A good strategy for backups is to set the conditions so that your trash and a specific folder don't get backed up. This will keep the size of the backupsets reasonable, and you can put stuff you don't want to back up in that folder. You can even put it there and put the alias in the proper directory to keep things neat and tidy.



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