Did I brick half my I-pod?

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I finally got an Ipod.

An 80 gig Ipod. :smiley:

I have about 50 gigs free between the two HDs in my laptop. :smack:
Do I have 30 gigs that I can never access on my Ipod?

2

Certainly not. You could use your iPod as a hard drive and put various non-music files on it to transfer them from place to place, or you could put music on it from your computer, then delete it from your computer and leave it on your iPod.

3

What?

4

Sounds like you need more space. Buy an external hard drive.

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Just be wary of using iTunes and it’s retarded auto-sync function, or you’ll auto-delete all your music.

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Nope. If you only had 50 gigs of files combined on your two HDs, then yes. Think of it like adding a room to a house:

I just added a room to my house, an 80 sq ft room. I have about 50 sq feet of free space in my other room. Do I have 30 sq ft in my new room that I can never access?

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I tinkered around with the Auto-sync, turning it off and on.

If only it could auto sync the Podcasts, but not the Music. Then I would be set.
Podcasts, Free, Ipod. Those three things, rock my world right now.

8

I don’t understand the basis of the OP’s question. Could someone explain it to a non-ipod-user?

-FrL-

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Basically, he’s wondering if, since his combined space for music, video, etc… on his two computers is only 50 GB, if he can still use all 80 GB of his iPod. The answer is yes, as long as he doesn’t mind not having a backup of everything on his iPod stored on one of his two PCs, which is the recommended way of doing things.

10

Thank you for translating. Really! :smack:

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I’m an iPod user and I had no clue what he was asking either.

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Yeah me, too!

13

I also had no idea.

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I knew what he was asking :slight_smile:

Me smart

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I thought that the meaning of ‘bricked’ was kinda implied. I guess not.

How can I back up the other 30 gigs?

Both HDs are on the same laptop.

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I would say buy a bigger external hard drive. I have an external 250 GB that I picked up for about 90 bucks. It connects by USB and no setting up is necessary. Windows automatically recognizes it as a drive. I have all my music and a large collection of movies backed up to it. I basically use it as a server to stream music and movies to my PC.

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I’ve never heard another person use the term “bricked” that way before (and even the urban dictionary doesn’t have a cite for the way you’ve used it). Is it common where you are?

In lieu of an external hard drive you could back it up with these or these.

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I too, an iPod user, had no idea what was being asked, and am completely mystified by the question “did I brick half my I-pod?” Dude, wait… what? I still don’t know what it means.

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“To brick” generally means the failure of an electronic device so it exibits all the features of a brick. For example, some people fear if they update the firmware on a Sony PSP, then decide to downgrade to a previous version (to use emulators or some other such reason), it might “brick” their PSP, or in other words, make it inoperable.

“Brick” doesn’t really apply to the OP. Even if he can’t fill his iPod to capacity at the moment, it doesn’t mean the unused space is useless. And elfkin came up with an elegant and affordable solution, one I didn’t consider. A package of 100 CD’s certainly isn’t expensive, and once Meeko has transferred music to his iPod, he can then free up space on his laptop by backing up his MP3’s on to CD’s.

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Thank you, cochrane, I now understand.