Going to lose all msuc

Hi sorry if this a bt of a noob question but ive looked and looked and cant find the answer. Even tho it is probably staring me in the face.
Im wanting to upgrade to 2.0 but its saying that it needs to wipe my touch but as the computer i am using isnt the computer i first used my touch on im going to lose all my songs. When i goto to backup it only seems to backup the music i have added since i started using my new computer!
is this right is there no way i can save all my music???

You will lose your older music, yes. You'd need to move it from the iPod into iTunes first. To do that, you need 3rd party software (google for TouchCopy, iPodAccess, iGadget). If you get the music into iTunes before you upgrade to v2.0, you will not lose your music.
Hope this helps...

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1sweetORnurse wrote:
1. Can I (and should I) back up both Macs to one external hard drive?
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2. Can I use the Time Capsule to route wireless continuous backups from the MacBook Pro to the external hard drive or would I need to have it wired every time?
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Since you have an iMac, by far the fastest, easiest, and most reliable way to back it up is to connect an external HD directly to it.
It's slower, but you can also back it up to the TC.
The laptop can be backed-up to the same drive as the one connected to the iMac, over your network.
Finally, although I wouldn't recommend it in this case, you could back up either or both to an external HD connected to the TC.
3. Which external hard drive would be best for my situation?
Most likely, a good quality external HD. If you're going to use Time Machine, see Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #1 to be sure you get one large enough.
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Hello,
I have a lot of pictures on my Ipod. But since i'm coming back from holidays, my ipod doesn't work anymore ! I still can use it and listen to music, but when i plug it, windows ask me to format it, and itunes doesn't recognize it...
I wanted to use iPod updater for updating the firmware without deleting the files, but... iPod updater can't "update", and cn only "restore"... i can't also see the name of the ipod (i have a n/d), and i can't see neither the capacity. I can only see the firmware version, and serial number. But everything about storage seems like dead.
I don't understand why, all my files should be always on it, because i can still listen to all the songs...
My files are important because it's lot of photos of my travels, and i didn't put them on another storage device so... i really don't want to loose them, i must avoid to use the "restore" function.
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I can't access the ipod through Windows. As i said before, doesn't work anymore !
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