Shifting from auto synch to manually manage without losing songs?

I have an 80Gb classic...it is now loaded with 30GB of music that I auto synched onto it. Long story, but I need to delete all the music on my laptop now given limited space on it...and then as I buy new music, I would want to manually add to my Ipod. However, i strongly suspect that if I make the change from synch to manually manage, once my Itunes library has been deleted, that I will then lose all the music on my ipod? Hope that the question is clear.

David Yeiter wrote:
Well, using the Firewire Target mode,tried copying the Itunes folder from my Imac to my MacBook Pro desktop and then putting it into the exact place where my other Itunes folder was and I also tried approach of opening up Itunes and using the Add to my Library method...both approaches were supposed to give me playlists, but neither did...I suspect I did something stupid, but can not figure it out.
On a the PC default document location (and thus iTunes location) depends on OS version & user account name. I guess the true path to your music on a Mac has the same issues. For many years kept I've my data on a separate partition or drive to cut down on the pain of reinstalling an OS and be able to handle multiple OS's with the same data.
I finally gave up and manually recreated the over 200 playlists...it was actually a good thing because it made me really look at how my music library was organized or the lack thereof.
Never a bad thing...
BUT, I am still wanting to know how this feat could be accomplished. Why is it that the manuals and discussion groups etc. always answer every question except the one you have which seems so freaking worthy!?
Lol - nice to see you've retained some perspective. I'm sure it can be done.
In fact, if I recall correctly, on a PC there is a method which involves deleting the iTunes ITL file (holds the optimised database iTunes actualy uses) and then editing the paths in the text-based XML library to match the new locations. If iTunes finds the XML file but not the ITL file then it rebuilds it from the XML data. I used it once when I wanted to relocate a section of my library but iTunes spent ages scanning the files and rebuilding the artwork cache so it seemed no easier than deleting them from the library and then reimporting from the new location. Besides the Mac version probably does this differently.
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