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HELP! How do I get my iPod to sync with my newly formatted hard drive?
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My RAID crashed and I've got everything reinstalled including all updates. I plug my iPod in and I get 2 choices: delete everything on the iPod and transfer contents of iTunes onto the iPod (which is nothing) or transfer purchases.
One of the reasons I bought an iPod was so that I would have a backup of all my music, photos, and movies. Now I can't get to them? I see how I could probably toggle invisibility off and then Add to Library but I want everything on the iPod (playlists included) just to sync back automatically.
What do I do?
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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The contents of your iPod ARE NOT A BACKUP of iTunes, you should always have real backups of your music.
The iPod is a slave device to iTunes and as such iTunes is designed to only allow music to be copied to it not from it (at the request of the music labels). The one exception is that iTunes Store music can be copied off the iPod back into iTunes (there is an option in the File Menu)
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Nov 2000
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While it's probably true that you shouldn't use the iPod as your main backup for your music, there are many many third-party programs (like Senuti) that can copy your music back to your computer from the iPod.
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Will it work to make the hidden files visible and then do an 'Add to Library' from iTunes and navigate to the iPod?
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Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Nov 2000
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It might, but why not just use Senuti? It works quite well, and I think it may even preserve playlists.
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Senuti looks like it just does songs.....what about my pictures (and albums) and movies?
Thank you for the suggestions....
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Senuti should work with videos. If you had the full resolution versions of your pictures saved (which I strongly recommend), you can just enable disc use for your iPod and then copy them off in the finder. If you don't have full resolution copies, you'll only be able to get the iPod-formatted copies (which are quite a bit smaller) by using a special third party program. There are a few that will do this, but I've never used any of them so I don't really have any suggestions. Does anyone else?
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Originally Posted by icruise 
Senuti should work with videos. If you had the full resolution versions of your pictures saved (which I strongly recommend), you can just enable disc use for your iPod and then copy them off in the finder. If you don't have full resolution copies, you'll only be able to get the iPod-formatted copies (which are quite a bit smaller) by using a special third party program. There are a few that will do this, but I've never used any of them so I don't really have any suggestions. Does anyone else?
I did enable saving full resolution photos. I guess I lose my albums though, huh?
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Yes, unless there is a third party program that can extract the album data (and there may be).
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