Best Compression method needed. Running out of space! ARRRRGH

Well i've had an ipod for many years and over that time i've built up a good 20gb or music. I really want to increase it too as i've plenty of stuff yet to be converted.
I Had an a 4th Gen Ipod (i think - known as click wheel)
Now I had been hoping to upgrade to a newer classic model so that i could fit more stuff on and at Xmas I was very kindly bought a 32gb Ipod touch.
Now as great as this device is i've already managed to fill it up with some tv stuff alongside my music.
Because i've had this music moved from one place to another over the years i thought i'd better check on it. Seems i've managed to import some songs using rediculous compression settings. Sunday bloody sunday (U2) for example is at 1090 and is 36mb in size.
It seems to me that there are plenty i can reduce.
Question is how? I see there are new settings for import since I last looked and i'm unsure which to use. I'd like to keep a good quality of sound but really need to reduce the sizes.
I see there is 'tunes plus' and 'high efficiency' along with all the usual.
I have 1196 tracks that are a higher quality that 128kbs. these would have been encoded some time ago so should i be using an alternative setting?
Any help appreciated.

MP3 is a bit old hat I suppose, but it is universal so it will work on just about any device. AAC is pretty much a proprietary format - I have only ever seen it used by Apple / iTunes so if you decided to move to another device in the future you might have to convert all your files. Then again, that might not bother you.
The difference in the file size between AAC and MP3 might be because AAC converts at a higher bitrate by default - try setting that to 128 as well and see what the size is. At the end of the day, its really down to personal preference, and if you find the quality acceptable.

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Done. Thank you, Allan.
The sparse image article you sent a link to needs a little updating (or there's some variability in prompts (no password was required) with my OS and/or Disk Utility version), but it worked.
Phew! It would have been much more time consuming to use Time Machine to recover all my photos after repartitioning the drive.

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So my studio does wedding photography. Me and my partner both take photos. We have about 30,000 photos just from the last 2 years. We are running out of space big time. We both have 1 terabyte magnetic hard drives in our computers. I have about 80gb left and she has about 120gb left. Needless to say, since I myself take about 50gb of photos per wedding, I'm not going to last long. We use lightroom.
So far I have managed to backup everything on an external 2TB hard drive for both of us. I save both RAW and Jpegs to it. I also have everything backed up on an online server. So here's my first issue. What I've been doing, is for the previous year (completed weddings) I delete all the RAWs from the computers. I leave the JPEG's on the computer incase I need them quickly. I keep all the RAWS on the external hard drives and online. But even doing this, deleting the RAWs from completed weddings off the internal hard drives, I'm still almost out of space. My computer is so slow because of this even though it's a top of the line computer with 6 gigs of triple channel ram. Lightroom runs so very slow and lags so bad.
So my first question is: By deleting the raws off of my computer, if I need to go back a few years from now and re-save the raw files or re-edit, will lightroom remember my develop settings or will I have to completely re-edit every photo? I have been saving a catalog file for each year, and start a new one every year. I do not use XMP sidecar files I save everything to the lightroom database. As long as I have the catalog file backed up, am I safe? Or am I doing this wrong? Because if open an old catalog file, it will say all the photos are not found on my computer (obviously).
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3) Import folder into lightroom4.
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My guess is that you are not actually deleting the original raws from your internal hard drives and have lots and lots of crud around that you are not aware off so you should go through your internal drives with a fine-toothed comb. Don't forget to actually empty the trash when you delete! 1TB is more than enough disk space for storing the Lightroom catalog file, previews and some jpegs. 30.000 photos is really not that much. My main catalog has >50.000 images in it with the raw files all stored on external hard drives. The catalog itself is on my internal 256 GB SSD HD that also houses the previews (so I can use it with the raw files offline) and the operating system as well as a lot of software (photoshop, office, iWorks, Aperture, etc.). It is more than enough space as it still has more than 150 GB free. I automatically back up everything, including the external HD that stores the raw images to separate external HDs stored in different places.

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*unselected "Sync music" from the appropriate tab. And iTunes warned: if you do this, we will delete every playlist and song on your iPod*
To change to manually managing an iPod you don't "unselect" sync music, you "select" manually manage songs and videos. If you want to delete songs from iTunes and keep them on the iPod you need to change the update option of your iPod by checking the box beside "manually manage songs and videos" in the Summary tab and clicking Apply. Your iPod will not sync with iTunes in this mode so it can have different content, you can get details here:
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One major word of caution. If you delete songs or videos from your computer and have no back up other than the iPod you will risk losing them permanently if your iPod fails or you find you have to restore it to solve a problem. You should consider investing in an additional internal or external hard drive to store/back up your music. Alternatively at the very least back up anything you can't replace such as iTunes downloads to CD or DVD: How to back up your media in iTunes
Something else to be aware of when using an iPod in manual mode is that the "Do Not Disconnect" message will remain on the display until you physically eject the device. In that case use Safely Remove Hardware icon in the Windows system tray on your desktop or check this link: Safely Disconnect IPod
I don't have any TV shows so I can't speak from experience here but looking at the TV tab it appears you can only sync shows, there's no manually manage option. Syncing would require that you keep the shows on your computer otherwise they would be removed from the iPod the next time you syncronised with iTunes.

Compress /, running out of space

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Unfortunately, I've running out of space on my eee's root partition. I would like to know, if it's possible, what should I do to compress the filesystem and make it rw using a tmpfs overlay (which must sync to another folder when the system shuts down).
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Hello,
currently my hard drive setup is
(1) SSD 120GB, for OS and APPS
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I'm curious about two things:
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JeremyDade wrote:
Hi,
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
My HD died and thankfully managed to restore it from a previous back-up with a new HD.
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Short term, your only option is to erase the TM disk and let it start fresh.
Long term, get a larger drive. They've gotten much less expensive in the last couple of years.
Then use the current one for a "bootable clone" secondary backup, via CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper. That gives you the best of both types of backup, and protects you from either app or hard drive failing. Many of us do exactly that.

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I have a Sprint Pearl 8130 and I am syncing with PocketMac to Entourage 2004 on an iBook G4 running OS 10.3.
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I think if you can set the option on your device so it turns on the calendar wireless synch, and also make sure MAC does not select archive to synch
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I keep on getting this error when i try to copy files to my 2T Time Capsule, Please help im running out of space on my MacBook Pro.... The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50)

I keep on getting this error when i try to copy files to my 2T Time Capsule, Please help im running out of space on my MacBook Pro....
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and your Time Machine disk is too small. It is recommended that your
Time Machine disk is 2 to 3 times bigger than the data you are backing up.
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Hp stream running out of space due to windows updates.

So having had my stream 14 for a few months now it was in need of a clean up and so I decided to factory reset it and discovered a serious issue regarding lost drive space caused by windows updates.
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@Dano314 ,
Hello and thank you for posting on the HP support forums. The updates are put out there to resolve issues.
If you find you are running out of space. Consider using an external hard drive. The hard drive on your system is not made for huge file storage and so on.
On the other hand if you find your system is running ok then do updates when you seem to find you are running into issues.
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Drop the tablespace. If you are sure you don't need it.
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Tablespace created.
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SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat Nov 11 18:44:13 2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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My FIX Moving All itunes account Libary etc to new PC with NAS 2tb drive (IOMEGA)or Seagate or LaCie or etc......
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By default, the ITL is always on the C: drive.
SO it seems you moved yours to the exHD. Just moving it doesn't do anything, though...did you ever do a shift-start of itunes and use it as your library?
Pressing AND HOLDING the shift key until you get a prompt from ituens to choose a library ITL file.
I would do that now before you go any further, to make sure of which library files you want to use.
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iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature.
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See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
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Deleting files inside an iPhoto or Aperture library will corrupt the library. Any changes to a photo library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
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Back up all data now.
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Triple-click anywhere in the corresponding line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator. Ignore any other messages that appear in the Terminal window.
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I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
When you're done with the app, quit it and also quit Terminal.

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