iPod Question
A client who has an iPod asked about this, and I was intrigued enough to pass along the problem here in case anyone knows.
Take an iPod and put songs onto it from your laptop.
When your laptop’s hard drive is getting rather full, delete some of the MP3 files from the laptop.
Subsequently connect up the iPod to the laptop and watch it delete those same files from the iPod, where you want to keep them.
This behavior renders you unable to purge music files from the laptop, ever, unless you also want them removed from the iPod.
My assumption is that this is either easy; just some silly synchronization setting, or else that this is hard; perhaps some presumptuous DRM code at work.
try switching from player mode to disk drive mode.
Also check the playlist synch settings. It shouldn’t do that…
We haven’t had that problem, but dh’s ipod is a shuffle, not a regular ipod…
Posted by caltechgirl on 02/08 at 06:11 PMUnfortunately you have to connect the iPod to get to this option, but under “Edit->Preferences” pick the “iPod” tab and the “Music” subtab. Change the setting to “Manually manage songs and playlists.”
If I recall, this setting is what keeps it from deleting stuff off the iPod that it doesn’t see on the hard drive. A long while back I had a similar problem when I was setting up iTunes on a second computer and it deleted EVERYTHING off my iPod when I connected it. Needless to say, I was less than thrilled.
Newer versions of iTunes at least give you the option to set options after connecting a new iPod, so this problem can be mitigated.
Posted by Aubrey Turner on 02/08 at 06:57 PMAhh, yes. That’s right. We set it to manual.
Posted by caltechgirl on 02/08 at 07:30 PM
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