<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by businesstraveler:
A couple of things come to mind:
1. Consider investing in a USB/Firewire based hard drive. These units offer huge amounts of backup space at very reasonable prices.
2. Consider inversting in a CD burner and backing the music files (and other important bur rarely needed files) that way.
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Michael, the only thing that comes to mind with me on your reply is that it doesn't have anything to do with the original question
Bikergirl, on my mac I HAD to keep the files on the machine or it would delete then when I synced. With the ipod on my windows machines I used third party software and did not need to keep them on my machine but I don't have any expereince with the software Apple delivers with it...
I'm pretty sure there are still solutions that do not require a full "sync" of the music.