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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br> 7. Ear&Headphones (Mel Boss)<br>I "sync" manually allowing me to erase some of the stuff on my computer. Since I upload, download and erase often on my computer, I defrag my harddrive regularly to keep the free space contiguous and more than 50% free as a rule. </blockquote>
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<div>Mel, do yourself a favor, never trust your ipod to not crash....there is a hard drive in the 80gig ipod. keep what you have on your PC or better yet spend $150 and get yourself a 500gig extrenal drive and back up all your music files on it from your PC's hard drive....you spend to much time downloading music tracks to lose them all because a drive crashed. my set up is (2) 500gig external drives that are mirrors of each other, this is where I keep all the flac flies I download and for my ipod I convert the flacs to mp3's at 192 and keep them on my desk top in itunes for use with my ipod (an 8gig nano, which is a flash drive)...can't recall the last time I made a CD from the flacs for myself, for other yes....why do I even do this you might ask...I've spent 25 years of my life designing disk drives and no matter how good the design they do fail and crash from time to time....</div>
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<div>always keep a copy and always back up your stuff !</div><br> </div>