Deleting music on hard drive after transfer to Ipod

Hello-
I'm wanting to delete my music files in my Music Library (on my computer) after I've transferred them to my Ipod. I see no reason to waste hard drive space.
But I'm scared that if I do that, I-tunes software will wipe my Ipod clean the next time I plug in. Can I delete the music files from my computer library and still have them stay on my Ipod?
I ask this because the "Sync" interface warns me so I can't tell what might happen.
Many Thanks, Frank

Ignoring the fact that you will have no backup and if something happens to your iPod you will lose everything, to do this you need to change the iPod sync preference from auto update to Manually updating. Now iTunes will not try to automatically delete from your iPod.
Managing content manually on iPod
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61148
Patrick

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