Re: iTunes & disk space

In article <160420061055469308%star@xxxxxxx>, Davoud <star@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Ian Bowns wrote:

We have a iBook with a small HD, and it's getitng full. The iTune
library is taking up most space (of our own data, though if anyone knows
of any other files we can safely delete, we'd be grateful for the
advice). As we have an iPod (with more space than the iBook), does
anyone know whether/how to archive some of the iTunes music onto the
iPod?

Well, you could just put /all/ /of/ /it/ on the iPod in the regular
way. Then delete the music from your iBook. When you plug the iPod into
the computer you can play the music as if it were on the computer's own
HD.

That's not exactly the way I would do it, however; while I do have all
of my music on my iPod, I'm unwilling to risk losing it all permanently
should the iPod be stolen or irreparably broken. I would get one or two
external FireWire drives and copy the entire iTunes Folder to one or
both. Then I would delete the music from the iBook and use iTunes
preferences to tell iTunes that the iTunes folder is on an external
drive. In fact, that /is/ the way I do it -- with many hard drives on
five Macs, in my instance.

Your same /two/ external drives, if purchased with sufficient capacity,
could back up all of your other files as well, possibly saving you from
that profoundly ill feeling that people get when they have failed to
back up important data and they lose it all in a computer failure.
There exist anecdotes describing serious damage or total failure of
many business establishments following such a computer failure.

Davoud

Yes it is somewhat of a risk putting ALL your music files in one place
on one drive, if your specific music collection would be hard or
impossible to recreate.

Putting the music files on backups on a firewire drive (more than one
copy on different drives) or backing up the music files to DVDs sounds
best.

The iPod or any hard drive can fail eventually (being mechanic devices)
and even DVDs can be damaged or fail eventually too.

Make as many backup strategies as you feel are necessary.

For general use and recovering the HD space on the iBook internal drive,
making a firewire external drive hold the music library sounds like the
best idea.

Morenuf
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