All songs lost from my desktop AND iPod
I was syncing my ipod to me desktop. When it was done, everything was deleted from both desktop & iPod except purchased music. Is there any hope of recovering music & books, or is everything lost?
David,
You can remove the songs from your computer and keep them on your iPod.
You need to change the method of transferring music to your iPod to manual.
You can change to manual transfer by following the instructions here.
Manual Transfer.
However, please be aware that keeping the only copy of your music on the iPod is a very risky option. What if you needed to do a software restore (which is a very common fix for iPod problems)? This would erase the contents of your iPod. Any purchased music would be lost and need to be purchased again.
What if the iPod were stolen/lost/needed repair?
Its much better to keep the music on your computer, and if storage space is at a premium, one option would be to buy an external hard drive, which are cheaper than ever nowadays, and keep your music library on that.
The iPod is a music player and was never intended as a long term storage device for the only copy of your music.
See also Backing up your music files in iTunes.
Sorry for the sermon, but we see a lot of folks weeping and wailing here that they lost all their music.
" Do people keep 4 gigs or more of music permanently on their computers?
Are you serious??!!
I currently have 186GB on an ext hd.
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