Using my mini iPod on both a home desktop PC and a Laptop
I have iTunes on both my home desktop and laptop. When at home I use my desktop to update my iPod on a daily basis with latest podcasts/add music etc. When I am away from home/on holiday I take my laptop. When I want to update podcasts/add nore music I connect the iPod to the laptop and click 'no' when asked to sync the iPod with the laptop, so as not to lose all the stored podcasts music etc. So, how do I add more music and podcasts using my laptop when way from home?
Hi Mr Keith,
To do what you're wanting to do, you'll have to manually manage your iPod's contents on your laptop (and maybe your desktop, too).
This means that iTunes won't automatically sync with your iPod and immediately transfer any new podcasts to your iPod when you connect it, but it will allow to you store your songs on your iPod, even when it's being managed through two different computers.
To transer content to your iPod when it's being manually managed in iTunes, and not set to auto-sync, you drag-and-drop whatever songs you want on your iPod from your iTunes Music library, to your iPod's name in the left panel of iTunes.
For details, see thess Knowledge Base articles:
Using iPod will multiple computers
Manually managing content on iPod
-Kylene
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