Running out of space for my library

Hi - I have a 160gb iPod classic - about a year old - and I've loved the fact that it can hold my entire music library. However, I'm quickly running out of space and don't want to lose the ability to be able to sync my whole library.
I have heard there are hard drive upgrades available - has anyone experience of these and if so is it really a DIY job?
Or, does anyone think there will be higher capacity iPod's arriving soon?

Upgrading the hard drive actually means replacing the hard drive. I believe there are companies that do it, but it's certainly not a DIY job, even if you understand electronics. As for speculating about future Apple products, the "Apple Discussions Use Agreement" forbids such speculation, so that's the end of that particular thought. (http://discussions.apple.com/help.jspa#terms section 2.1.1)
Perhaps you need to check what bit rate you're using for the content of your iPod, because 160Gb can hold an awful lot of music. I have 12000+ songs on my 160GB iPod - and Podcasts, videos (which take up a lot of storage) and pictures, but I still have 50Gb of free space.
Some of my music is encoded at 256Kbps, but most is at 128Kbps. If you're using 256kbps, try adding one of those songs at 128Kbps as well and see if you can hear the difference. If you can't, perhaps 256Kbps is an unecessary use of space.
Phil

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louisak,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
A startup hard drive showing 1 GB free on an computer running a flavor of Unix (which OS X is) can indeed be effectively running out of room. Unix makes heavy use of scratch and swap files on the hard drive; the amount of needed swap space varies depending on how much real RAM you have and how manu programs you run concurently, but 256 to 512 MB swap spac eon disk is common (this Mac currently shows 256 MB for 3 swap files in /private/var/vm even through only 72 MB of that is in use). In addition, if you burn -R or -RW optical discs, you'll need at least as much free space as the size of the dissc to allow creation of the temporary image file used in the burning, about 700 MB for CD-R and 4.7 GB for DVD-R. As a ballpark rule-of-thumb, minimum free hard drive space should be at least 1 GB (no optical disc burning), 2 GB (CD-R burning), or 5 GB (DVD-R burning), so the warning message you're seeing is expected.
It's critical that you free up space on the hard drive as soon as possible. In the interim, close out any programs you're not immediately using and try yo run no more than one program at a time. If a Unix computer does run out of hard drive space, it can be blocked from normal startup and leave you looking at booting into single-user mode to manually clear enough files to start up again.
There are a number of ways to free up hard drive space, depending on your comfort level rooting around the OS X System, how valuable your files are, and your budget. There are several utilities that can help you ID unneeded large files, but I'd be hesitant to download anything onto your computer until you free up at least 2 GB to work with. Start by going through your user data and trashing files you don't really need.
If you use Firefox, check the ~/Users/ [username]/ Library/ Application Support/ Firefox/ Profiles/ [text].default/ folder for excess backup bookmarks files (bookmarks-##.html); thise can take up about 1 MB each and you don't really need more than the latest backup (when I last checked my work Mac, there were about 200 backup bookmarks files, so that's a fair chunck of drive space).
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If your c drive has that little space on it you are going to be having other problems as well. Windows needs space on that drive in order to run efficiently. It shouldn't, but it does.
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Enjoy your ipad.

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This seems like an odd problem. But I have a 2007 vintage iPod classic 80gb. And a little after the introduction on iTunes 10 it seems that my iPod is running out of adequate space to sync my podcasts. I haven't added any new songs to my syncing playlists, there's no video or photo syncing either so there's no extra data being added there. The only thing that changes is the number of podcasts that are syncing up. And I haven't changed or added to my subscriptions in a long time. But every morning it seems my iPod will sync fewer and fewer podcasts. I tell it to delete all watched/listened to podcasts so there's no residual there either. I did clear out one of my playlists a little to make room late last week and that helped. But this morning I tried syncing a half-dozen or so podcasts and it kept telling there wasn't enough free space. Is the hard drive getting bad? I've used it everyday since I got it so I'm wondering if it's showing it's age?

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Done. Thank you, Allan.
The sparse image article you sent a link to needs a little updating (or there's some variability in prompts (no password was required) with my OS and/or Disk Utility version), but it worked.
Phew! It would have been much more time consuming to use Time Machine to recover all my photos after repartitioning the drive.

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I have plenty of space on my hard drive 1.5GB
You do not have "plenty of space". You are facing a major crisis with a severe risk of dataloss unless you act very fast indeed. This is your first priority.
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I want to know how to backup my library to a fixed backup drive
Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive...
Full Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
Also... Have a look at these 2 Videos...
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Open Settings->General->Date & Time. Turn off Set Automatically & roll back the date a year. Then open your photos app & the Recently Deleted folder. The phantom photos should be there. Tap Select & Delete All,
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You can just drag the emails to "On My Mac" which will save them locally. Or you can use a third-party archive utility. If you're using Mail, you might look into MailSteward which will archive all your mail, including attachments, into a database:
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RakD,
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Two I-Tunes libaries (Mine & My Wifes) Both Machines running out of space.
My FIX Moving All itunes account Libary etc to new PC with NAS 2tb drive (IOMEGA)or Seagate or LaCie or etc......
Can i copy the Bulky Library files ITUNEs from My Wifes laptop to the NAS drive ?
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SO it seems you moved yours to the exHD. Just moving it doesn't do anything, though...did you ever do a shift-start of itunes and use it as your library?
Pressing AND HOLDING the shift key until you get a prompt from ituens to choose a library ITL file.
I would do that now before you go any further, to make sure of which library files you want to use.
I would assume the one with the most recent date is the one you want.
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However if at any point you start itunes without the exHD connected, it automatically goes back to the C: drive.
In that case, you WOULD need to do another shift-start to use the ITL on the exHD>
It's option-start on a Mac, BTW.
You can move the whole folder over to your new MBP and do an option-start.
Clear as mud?

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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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