Using the iPod as a Hard Drive

I have been using my 30GB iPod Video as a hard drive and decided to make a backup of everything important in case something happened to my iBook. After the initial backup, I decided to delete that file off the iPod and run the backup again just to see if I could do one easily whenever I thought of updating the backup file.
After deleting the backup file from the iPod as I normally would on a computer, Backup tells me that the iPod doesn’t have enough space when trying the backup a second time.
It’s almost as though the iPod kept the original backup file on there and has it taking up space, but I just can’t see it.
Anyone know how to fix that?

Don't know if it worked for the original poster, but it did for me! Thanks. I got all my space back!

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I have tried doing this and they seem to have been copied into the ipod, however when I checked into the ipod they were not there...anywhere. I highlighted the "ipod(E)" drive and created a new folder named "my documents" and then dragged some word files into it. I then detached the ipod from my computer and checked the ipod for the files and the new folder "my documents" and could not find them.
When you use the ipod as an external hard drive are all the documents and files you drag into it hidden???
Is there any way to view word documents?? How do you store them?
When using the ipod, is the only viewable information that comes up onto the ipod screen, info from the "itunes" page??
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You can't view any of the files on the iPod while using the iPod. You can only see them through the computer. I guess if you want, you can put the files into the "Notes" folder on the iPod and see them using your iPod, but you can only open .txt files up to 4kb big.
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I am in the process of transferring files (marked by the years 2005, 2006 etc.) from my iPhoto to my iPod. Will I be able to transfer them back again? How? Is this a good and a wise way of saving my iPhoto collection, so that I can free up iPhoto itself on my iMac?

If your iPod is "enabled for disk use" then when you open it in Finder you'll find a number of folders, Photos, Contacts, Notes etc. Under Photos for instance you will find two depending on how you set your preferences, one will be thumbnails (photos optimised for viewing on the iPod) and if your preferences are set to copy over full resolution versions as well you'll see a folder for those. You just access the folders as you would if they were on your hard drive.

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In addition to listening to music and looking at photos, I would like to use my iPod as a hard drive. I was able to set the switch to do this on my Mac Powerbook in iTunes. But I want to transfer some files to my desktop PC. I don't want to put the same music on my PC and Mac! I never use the PC to listen to music. But I would like to use the harddrive feature. I'm afraid that if I try to connect to the PC using iTunes it will erase my music and make me start all over again. Is there any way to set a switch on the PC so it can see the files on the the iPod?

In case your iPod has been used initially on your Mac:
If you want to use your Mac formatted iPod as ext HD on a Mac as well as on a Windows PC you will loose all your iPod content once, as your iPod has to be re-formatted on a Windows PC using the latest Windows-Ipod-Updater.
Having done so - although not supported by Apple - your Windows formatted iPod will work on a Mac as well as on a Windows PC.

I'm using my iPod classic as hard drive to transfer the music to my reinstalled computer but the file "iTunes" is missing. Where is it and how can I get it back?

I had a virus on my Windows Vista PC so I had to reinstall the whole system. With this I also got an upgrade to Windows 7. Now I want to use the iPod classic to put the music back on the PC. According to the explanations on Apple support you have to drag the iTunes file on the iPod to the My Music file. Unfortunately there is no iTunes file on the iPod. It does work fine though and I can listen to all the music. I have to say that before I deleted the hard drive fro the PC I forgot to switch the iPod to manual sync. It was psooible though to do that with the new installed iTunes without erasing the music on the iPod. Can anybody help? I really wouldn't like to loose the countings and playlists.
Thank you
Kschonho

Hi,
Not sure if this is going to any help or given your particular situation...
But thought you may like to see it anyway...
Re-create iTunes Library and Playlists
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451
It's a pity you don't mention having a Backup of your Hard Drive...

Using your ipod as a hard drive

Hi there! I am hoping that someone out there who has an ipod can answer a question for me. I am a PC user. I'm looking into buying an IPOD, but I want to use it for more than just music. Essentially I want to use it as an external hard drive. Can you save any type of file on the ipod? can you use it for music at the same time? (so part of it holds and plays music and the other part stores data) if anyone has any information on this I'd appreciate it! thank you!

Yes, you can put any type of file which you can use on your computer onto your iPod, as long as the file is smaller than 4GB. It is possible to use an iPod for data and music at the same time as long as the iPod is in either FAT32 or HFS+ format; all iPods ship in one of those two. More information is available in this article.
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I can't believe that Apple would reduce the functionality of a new product, but I have heard that due to the absence of firewire, you actually can't use the new video iPods as hard drives.
Does anyone know if this is really true?
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I had reported in another thread that the long and short of it is that USB2 and Firewire 1394a are virtually the same, with differences. See this website for more info than you'll need. http://www.directron.com/firewirevsusb.html
Bottom line is that there is little difference regarding speed.
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I have 2 macs and 2 PC laptops in my home wireless network. Can I use the Airport/Time Capsule hard drive to back up all 4 machines? I know that I will have to use different back up software on the PCs, but is it possible over the wireless network?

I have 2 macs and 2 PC (Windows 7) laptops in my home wireless network. (The iMac is hardwired via ethernet to the Airport/Time Capsule; the others are wireless connections using Airport). I want to use the hard disk drive in the Time Capsule as a network backup drive for all 4 computers. Is this possible? Could someone help me by telling me how to configure it? I know I will have to use different backup software in the 2 Windows 7 Laptops? Do I need to use the Windows backup software, or can I use a third party program like Acronis True Image? Thanks in advance for the help

It is your fault, pondini.. all your fault.
I read of all the things that go wrong restoring Time Machine backups.. particularly stupid things like mail, photo libraries don't go back.. etc. And looking through the incredible number of issues people have here, when their Mac finally takes a dive how hard it is to restore.
I restored a test hard disk from a TC.. and it takes ages and ages to even make up its mind to start.
I worked in computer support for ages, but not Macs.. so my experience is ghost.. ghost images.. on large commercial server setups, can stream restore to multiple computers at once.. even doing it computer by computer the image is simple as network boot to restore. But ghost went the way of Symantec.. sigh!! And was destroyed.
A product like clonezilla, Free linux boot cd.
http://lifehacker.com/5078397/clonezilla-backs-up-and-restores-your-disks
Can backup a Hard disk in just about any format.. yet to try it on a Mac to a TC.. but I will. Boot from CD.. instead of your lost Lion partition which no longer exists (because the hard drive had to be replaced) and the DVD they no longer give you, and restore the entire hard disk in a couple of hours .. to the exact image at the point you made the clone.. in any format, with any partitions.
My bet is that it will kill TM .. but you could be right.
It is just the prospect of all those permission changes, photos and mail libraries etc that worry me.

I used my ipod as a hard drive and now its not opening?

i had synced some 15 gb music onto my 120 GB ipod for a holiday .
In my holiday i took some 5 gb of photos which i decided to backup on my ipod. So i put the Ipod to USB into the computer, the ipod device opened from my computer icon, and i copied and pasted the photos
Now, when i try to open my ipod from my computer, and i click on the photo folder, i get a message, please insert disk into drive E. I get the same message if i try to open any folder. All the folders in the ipod show 0 KB. The ipod playlists of music have dissapeared.
But they ARE there, because the pie chart on my computers, ipod icon shows 20 gb used in 120 gb. So how do i access this photo data.

Not sure why it's happened, but you could try resetting the password. These instructions work for Lion & Mountain Lion. If you're on Snow Leopard you'll need to use the install disk that came with the Mac.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/

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working on some fcp projects ,we were wondering if its possible for 2 computers to be using the same external lacie terrabyte (lacie d2)
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simon

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Anyone use the backup to external hard drive working on Itunes

if so, does it kinda work like the backup to disk where you can basically just load it up on a new computer and it basically looks like it did when you left it?
or is it basically like copying your whole music folder over to an external hard drive and adding everything manually?

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Can I configure the Time Capsule internal HD to function as a network file server as well as handling time machine backups?
Can the internal HD be partitioned?

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The TC is not suitable for network file server.. but many people having no choice press it into service as such.
It cannot be partitioned. It was and is and ever shall be a backup device for Time Machine.
Major issues.
1. No backup.. no way Time Machine can backup a network drive. No place to backup to.. So all your files will be at risk. And you will need to buy a third party like CCC to do backup.
2. The TC cannot be partitioned and mixing TM backups and data is not great.
3. The drive is slow to spin up and quick to spin down.. there is no controls.
4. iPhoto in particular can easily corrupt its entire library with wireless networking causing a disconnection to one photo. Even if you do this;;; do not move your photo library... you have been warned!!
5. iTunes will constantly lose connection to the library. The disk is too slow to respond.. itunes on the computer will constantly spit out errors. Even in the midst of streaming the TC can spin down the disk due to caching.
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Q3 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html

Anyone is using the new Seagate Hybrid hard drives?

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hey, Is is possible to use the ipod as a hard drive to transfer data from/to Mac and windows PCs?
I see no problem transfering data from/to my mac to the ipod. But I cannot see the ipod on the PC. When I plug the USB cable to my windows PC, it shows a popup message "external disk is not formated. Do you want to format it?".
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Windows cannot read a Mac formatted iPod.
Macs can read Windows fomratted iPods.
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