Video management on iPod

ok, I'm at my wit's end. I've got some videos I want to put on my iPod, but I DON'T want to keep them on my computer. I have all the proper back-ups of my videos so don't waste my time lecturing me about that. I've tried manually adding the videos, but the only way I can do that is to manually manage my music as well. What I would like to do is to be able to +manually add videos+ while at the same time +auto sync music+. Is there any way to do this at all?

Hi, I don't think there's a way to manage just the video section manually while retaining auto-sync for music. What you can do, however, is auto-sync the videos to get them onto the iPod, then remove the physical files from your computer while retaining the entries for them in the iTunes library. When you try to sync again iTunes will report that it cannot sync certain files as they cannot be found, but it should leave the previously synced files on your iPod. You can disable the warning if you choose. You will still be able to add new videos onto the iPod by adding them into iTunes, then syncing. You can also remove items you no longer want on the iPod by deleting their library entries.
You seem to have the issue of backups in hand but for benefit of others I would stress that this method should be avoided if it results in the iPod containing the only copy of a particular file because the iPod could easily be lost, stolen or need restoring at some point.

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