Using Ipod as backup storage for HDD Camcorder

Hi there. I recently bought a sony 30 gb hard disk camcorder (dcrsr50e). I´m going on a 3 month travel so 30gb wont be enough. I was wandering if it is possible to use the ipod as storage on the road (ie without bringing my laptop) like I use the photo converter for my pictures, since I´m backpacking and would prefer not bringing my laptop.
If not, do you know any other ways of backing up a hdd camcorder on the road
Thank you Stefan

Now that your iPod is set for manual music management, does the iPod show up in Windows like an external drive? Do you see it listed either by name or by the generic "removable disk" under My Computer? Because once Windows recognizes it as a removable drive, you can open it and poke around for your files. First you need to expose hidden files using Windows' Tools•Folder Options•View settings. Then you'll see the folders in which the iPod stores all the stuff.

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I am an avid user of iTunes with multiple years of history behind me, and I have owned my own iPod since about February, and I have never been disappointed until now, but I feel this is more an ID 10.T error than anything else.
I have a big library, so much so that a regular iPod just wouldn't do it, I had to go for the biggest one available. With a library of 5,230 songs covering 31.65GB, I have a nearly irreplacable collection, and to my dismay, my internal disk is failing (thank you Maxtor...)
As a wise move, I synchronised my iPod with iTunes with the latest additions, and was horrified to find that iTunes had sleuthed an entire band (Motorhead! No!), three songs from another band (Jimi Hendrix, why all the good guys?!), and two lone songs had become victim to my series of bad sectors cropping up all over the place. While I was thankful that this had not altered my iPod listings (the tracks are still on the iPod, and are still playable), I am left with a situation.
If I want to recover these tracks, most of which were ripped from now long-lost CDs years ago rather than purchased over iTMS, how would I go about doing it? Obviously, restoring them on the failing disk would be absolutely fruitless, but there will come a time when I CAN afford to replace the disk, and when this time comes, the entire library will need restoring, and as an extra precaution, I want to have the library stored on my partner's PowerBook. Having turned off automatic synchronisation, under the fear that I would lose my tracks, I thought there would then also be a method for transferring all the data FROM the iPod TO a machine, but this does not appear to be possible, and one begins to ponder the usefulness and customer satisfaction of a one-way music player? Is there an option within iTunes I am missing or simply haven't found yet? Or does the problem lie deeper than I believe it to be? How am I supposed to get music off, and re-enable automatic synchronisation without vaporising my irreplacable music collection that already exists on my iPod?
Seriously, it took me many years to rip, and over five hours to transfer, do NOT tell me I'm going to have to vaporise it to do anything with it, as I've already lost a few ultra-rare tracks on the disk...
Any help that could be given is very much appreciated.
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Now that your iPod is set for manual music management, does the iPod show up in Windows like an external drive? Do you see it listed either by name or by the generic "removable disk" under My Computer? Because once Windows recognizes it as a removable drive, you can open it and poke around for your files. First you need to expose hidden files using Windows' Tools•Folder Options•View settings. Then you'll see the folders in which the iPod stores all the stuff.

Using iPod as primary storage for all music, help!

Hello all!
Okay, so I bought a 60Gb 5G iPod last month and I'm loving it. However, I'm using it a little differently than most and because of this I'm unable to use many of the conventinal "cures" people have suggested. Here's my situation.
Rather than having my music stored on my computer and then syncing with my iPod I actually store all of my music on my iPod so I can take it back and forth to work with me and play all of my music on my work computer and my home computer. Everything has been going just fine but I've run into a problem with album artwork and the traditional fixes aren't an option.
The problem is that artwork that I've added directly to the iPod isn't showing up on the iPod when I play it when it isn't attached to a computer. I know this is because artwork needs to be added to iTunes and THEN transferred to the iPod.
So, how does someone like myself who isn't managing through music on their computer's hard drive go about correcting such a problem? I don't want to dump everything off of the iPod and back onto my computer, just takes way too long. Can this problem be solved by accessing the iPod DIRECTLY through iTunes?
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You're welcome.
Although you haven't seen many reports of iPod hard drive failure, it can and does occur as it can with any hard drive.
Maintaining a regular backup of all important data is very important if not the most important. It isn't a matter of if but when a hard drive has a partial or complete failure since none last forever.
I learned this painful lesson the hard way. Without warning, I experienced a complete hard drive failure on a G3 PowerBook less than one year old and the only time I've experienced this but it only takes once. Apple replaced the hard drive under the standard 1-yr warranty period but none of the existing data was recoverable. I didn't maintain a backup at the time and I lost everything.
Currently I use a 3rd party backup utility called SuperDuper! which creates a complete bootable clone backup of my hard drive saved to a Firewire drive. It includes a Smart Update feature which updates files that have changed only between backups.
I never want to go thru that painful experience again so I emphasize maintaining a backup when I see an opportunity to do so. Always better to be safe than sorry.

My iPhone 5S is using 2.5GBs of storage for the camera roll. I deleted all but 190 photos and this did not change. My other devices cannot backup to iCloud due to the volume on my iPhone. Any ideas?

My iPhone 5S is using 2.5GBs of storage for the camera roll. I deleted all but 190 photos and this did not change. My other devices cannot backup to iCloud due to the volume on my iPhone. Any ideas?

Try turning off the Camera Roll option in Settings>iCloud>Backup & Storage>Manage Storage>Your device. Then turn it back on again.
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GB

Can I use my APT as storage for my music and movies?

I m Using MacBook Air and APT 160
I have three questions:
1- Can I use my APT as storage for my music and movies I need the space in my MacBook Air? If yes please tell me how?
2-What is the best way to pair my APT with my MacBook Air through WiFi “g” or “n” or what is the latest, which will save me time?
3-What is the best external drive that might fit my need?
Thanks

Waleedan wrote:
I m Using MacBook Air and APT 160
I have three questions:
1- Can I use my APT as storage for my music and movies I need the space in my MacBook Air? If yes please tell me how?
No, it is not a storage solution as if you need to get the things off it you can't. If you deete things from iTunes they'll delete at the next sync. Provided you have backup copie on an external drive or CD/DVD, you could delete the actual file from the Finder leaving the database entry in iTunes - in this way you free space on the laptop but files stay on AppleTV.
An alternative would be to change itunes Preferences (Advanced tab) not to import into the library, then for things you don't want on the Macbook Air, have them on external drive, drag and drop to itunes, sync, then disconnect drive for portable use. Again when the files aren't available they won't be deleted, unless you delete the itunes database reference.
2-What is the best way to pair my APT with my MacBook Air through WiFi “g” or “n” or what is the latest, which will save me time?
n is faster.
3-What is the best external drive that might fit my need?
Your options are basically small portable drives most of which are USB powered (though may require powered hubs if you have a hub) or larger desktop externals requiring power adapter and more space.
For value the desktop externals give more capacity per pound/dollar, and will also have bigger capacity maximums at a given time (bigger and bigger capacity discs being developed all the time).
Try and work out the capacity/pro
ice point and if a portable might be useful, then you have a variety of option.
Peronally I like Western Digital, Seagate and Freecom models, but they're all fairly good these days, and even popular brands can fail. I avoid Maxtor and IBM/Hitachi having had failures in the past, but all drives eventually fail.
AC

Using iPod shuffle 4th generation for first time and receiving the error : one of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message

Using iPod shuffle 4th generation for first time and receiving the error : one of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message.
Using win 7 and latest iTunes [10.6.3]. Have already gone through below links and did not find any solution.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2292
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1369
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-17997-ipod-not-detected

I was hoping it would be something like a USB device conflict, but now the shuffle is the only thing connected...
This article was one of the ones you linked to above in your initial post
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1369
Under Part 9. Verify that USB drivers are installed, did you try the steps in If only "Unknown Device" appears? That appears to be your situation.
Also, you said that the shuffle initially worked well enough to do a sync, then it had the same problem again. If you can get it to work again initially, before doing anything else, try the following. Select the shuffle in the iTunes sidebar, under DEVICES. Over to the right, go to the Summary tab. By default, the checkbox for Enable disk use should be unchecked. If so, check it and Apply the change. See if that makes any difference.
(If Enable disk use was already checked, try unchecking it and Apply the change. Basically, set it the "other way" and see if there is any improvement.)
NOTE: When disk use is enabled, you have to eject the iPod in iTunes before disconnecting it physically.
If the disk use change makes a difference, that may provide a clue about the actual cause.

Hi, i wanted to resize my windows partion. I was thinking of using the default backup system for windows. Then switching to mac partion, deleting the bootcamp and then restoring a new enlarged partion from the backup. Is this possible?

hi,
i wanted to resize my windows partition. I was thinking of using the default backup system for windows. Then switching to mac partion, deleting the bootcamp and then restoring a new enlarged partition from the backup. Is this possible?

I see youhave gotten recommendatons for using WinClone or CampTune. I have used both and they both work well.
You have asked about using the WIndows 7 utility to backup your drive and restor it onto a larger partition. I will tell you fro experience that this will probably not do what you want, and may do something that you don't want. You can use the Windows 7 native backup tool to make a backup of your Windows 7 partition. It will most liekly end-up making a dive image of the whole drive. When yourestore that backup, it will try to re-create teh partitions of exactly the same size as they were when the backup was taken, so it won't increase your partition size for you. Worse, since Windows doesn't natively know how to read./write HFS+ volumes, the backup will make a partition for your MacOS (replacing any you may have now), except that the copy restored by WIndows will be totally worthless, and you will not be able to boot MacOS from it, or even read it under MacOS.
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Using my TM backup disc for other files

The help file for TM suggests you shouldn't use your TM backup disc for anything else.
Can anyone tell me why this is? If I have a very large backup disc, what is the downside of storing stuff on it other than the TM backup?
Thanks

You can make a separate partition for the other stuff, but you'll need another way to back that up.
See #3 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.

Online backup storage for 10.2.8

Just wondering if anyone knows of an online backup storage site for my 10.2.8? I've checked out mosy, carbonite, ibackup and a few others. Can't seem to find one that will work with 10.2.8. And, if anyone does know of one I have another question...will I also be able to backup my external HD...or maybe even only my external HD. I have all my pictures on it. If I lose my computer, that can be replaced. My pictures cannot.
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Cayleen

Cayleen:
I do not use online storage, so I am not familiar with the scene. I have two external firewire HDDs to which I clone my entire HDD. I do this on a rotating basis, so if one becomes corrupted, I have a previous one on which to fall back. Some people maintain three backups, and keep one off-site. For photos and music you may want to archive them on CDs or DVDs. If you are interested in using a strategy similar to the one I outlined, please post back for details. Dr. Smoke's FAQ Backup and Recovery has excellent tips on backing up.
Incidentally, why are you still running Jaguar? Your computer will support Panther (10.3.9) or Tiger (10.4.11). I suggest you consider upgrading your OS. You will find it so much more efficient and stable.
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Using iPod as a Storage Device

I am having trouble using my iPod as a storage device. I have a video I am trying to store and then transfer to my Playstation 3 that is 4.4GB, my ipod has roughly 14GB of free space. I have tried to just drag and drop the file onto my iPod but continue to get an error message that reads "Disk in the destination drive is full." Anyone know what the problem is? Yesterday I successfuly transfered a small video that was about 20-50MB with no problems.

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Ok, I'm the last person on the planet without an iPod, but thinking of getting one.
I'm wondering if I can get away with using an iPod for both music and as my backup HD (instead of using an external FW HD) for my primary HD (this would get me halfway to justifying the purchase ).
Anybody using an iPod for both music and as a backup HD for their primary HD?
If so, what's the good, the bad and the ugly?
In doing some reading here, I see that the iPod cannot (should not?) be partitioned, so that's one strike against it.
The process to put it into disk mode also seems a bit putzy compared to simply hooking connecting a FW HD to my PB and having it automatically mount.
Other thoughts?
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Anybody use an iPod to boot their Mac/PB? (Apple KB doc says it may be possible, but it's "unsupported").
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I use my iPod for quick backups. But I never trust it as my primary back up. One, the iPod is not designed for sustained read/writes because it is not adequately ventilated to keep it cool enough. Another reason not to use your iPod as a primary backup is that it can easily be stolen. But as for a back up device that works in a pinch, it can't be beat.
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Not without the aid of some 3rd party software such as XPlay2.
Windows cannot read a Mac formatted drive.
Probably the easiest way to use an iPod on both Mac and Windows computers is to format the iPod (using iPod Updater) using the PC. This will force your iPod to use the Windows file system (FAT32) which both the Mac and PC can read from and write to without the help of additional software. Of course then all your software updates for the iPod will have to be done on Windows.
If you do that, you can use the iPod as a storage drive.
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