First time IPOD owner and do not understand "itunes media"(question inside)

Hello,
Just moved from Zune to the IPod, and I have a 120GB Ipod, I have about 12,000 songs I want to transfer and everyitme I try and transfer I get this message "There is not enough space on itunes media, you need an additional 28GB to copy these files" What does that mean??? I even tried half the songs and got this message. THis is really fustrating, can someone please help! Just want my songs on my ipod, nothing fancy. Thank you.

First of all, there is no upper limit on the amount of space, or number of songs you can have "in iTunes".
I'm curious though about the message Ther is not enough space on itunes media, because the music is not on or even "in" iTunes, so I don't really understand why it states "on Tunes".
If you let iTunes place the music (the media) where it wants, it's in the iTunes Media folder or in the iTunes/iTunes Music folder. What iTunes (the programme) does is index, or catalogue the music, remembering where the music is actually stored.
So a message saying that there isn't enough storage space has to be referring to the hard drive where that folder is located. Where is that? Is it on the computer, or an extrenal hard drive? Is the drive full or nearly full?

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After owning a (surprisingly) decent knockoff (hey, have a limited budget), one of my friends gifted me with her IPOD 2nd gen, 4GB (she upgraded to one of your fancier models).
I am having a bit of a problem learning how to use this. She removed all her information (pics, contacts, etc) except for songs. In the interim, I downloaded iTunes 7, and the setup already brought over all my mp3 music files into the Library.
BUT, when I attach the IPOD to the computer, it does not show up on the Library. It will show the Device, just not the songs. In theory, should I be able to access the songs on the player, and be able to delete any from the player as well as add on music already on my computer? I would say that I would like to delete close to 85% of the music already on the Ipod, and therefore just need to know - for starters - how to delete what is on the player and how to add songs that are in the Library.
Any sympathetic help for this techno-newbie would be incredibly appreciated.

I also forgot to add that I am aware that some, if not all the songs on the IPod at this time may have been purchased from the ITunes site. I have no problem with this, as I plan to start my own playlists from ITunes. I just want to know how to at least add and delete songs that are already on the player as well as my computer.

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Troy F wrote:
it has the 250gb 5,400rpm hard drive and only 2gb of ram...will be creating lesson plans, presentations, and spreadsheets. I will also do some basic photo and video editing, starting with the programs supplied in iLife. In my free time I hope to enjoy some basic gaming, mostly RTS games and WoW.
Do the RAM first. A 250GB hard drive is a lot of storage for the stuff you do. You sound more likely to need more memory for more programs running at the same time, and that means RAM.
what does everyone think about iWork?
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