Keeping movie files on iPod after moving them to external HD
I'm running out of disk space on my Powerbook's hard drive because of all my television show files and I want to transfer them to my portable harddrive to free up the space. But if I do this, I'm worried that the files will disappear from my iPod and I don't want that to happen. Is there a way I can delete files on iTunes but keep them on my iPod even while continuing to update the folders they are in (television shows, movies, Limewire, etc.)? Thanks!
Only by manually managing the updating. If you have the external why not just locate the iTunes library there? You have the iPod for portability you don't need the library on the Powerbook.
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