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BeeBadger · 03-08-2004, 09:59 AM

I have the 40 Gig iPod. Great MP3 player hands down. When I reinstalled windows I had about 700 songs on the iPod. When I reinstalled iTunes and the iPod program, it saw an empty Library and deleted everything on the ipod.

The only way to access the iPod icon is to plug it in, this is where I guess I can program the iPod not to copy everything from iTunes automatically. Luckely I backed-up all the songs on a DVD.

How do I avoid this from happening again? Is there a set-up in the iPod or iTunes program, that stops iPod from trying to mirror whats on iTunes?

I am using WinXP, and my specs are below.

Thanks

03-08-2004, 09:59 AM	#1 (permalink)
BeeBadger Newb Techie Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 18	iPod Question: Trying to avoid deleting songs. I have the 40 Gig iPod. Great MP3 player hands down. When I reinstalled windows I had about 700 songs on the iPod. When I reinstalled iTunes and the iPod program, it saw an empty Library and deleted everything on the ipod. The only way to access the iPod icon is to plug it in, this is where I guess I can program the iPod not to copy everything from iTunes automatically. Luckely I backed-up all the songs on a DVD. How do I avoid this from happening again? Is there a set-up in the iPod or iTunes program, that stops iPod from trying to mirror whats on iTunes? I am using WinXP, and my specs are below. Thanks