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ok, i am relatively new to all this, so bear with me. i have a 30 gb video ipod, and have hooked it up to my itunes on my pc at home and have all my music from that computer. what i would like to do is download some games and what not for it, but i would like to do that from my imac at work? is this possible without messing up anything? my internet at home is on the blink, which is the reason for this. is there anything i need to know, or is this even possible without screwing anything up? if i do this, will it erase the music that already exists on the ipod since it was gotten from my home computer which is a pc?

If you want to connect and use an iPod on more than one computer you need to change the update preference in the iPod Summary tab to "Manually manage music and videos" and click Apply. In this mode you can directly access the content of the iPod and play it through iTunes and you can drag and drop whatever you want to the iPod from either library. Macs by the way can read Windows formatted drives so you should have no trouble using the iPod on a Mac and a PC. It doesn't work the other way round however since a Mac formatted iPod can't be read by Windows:
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