I'm on my second i-pod and have it filled with a lot of music and video, so I'm hesitant to do anything with it that might endanger it's set up. I am wondering what potential is there for problems if I plug it into another machine other than the one with my i-tunes on? I bought the i-pod second hand with music already on it. I plugged it into my Linux machine and tried to delete its content and temporarily screwed it up. I obviously don't want to risk that again. But if I wanted to take content from it and put it onto my other machine would it be safe to do so? I'd look on the i-pod site but there is so much info it takes too long.

Thanks again.

Itunes - syncs it up from storage on HD, therefore a blank itunes synced to an ipod full = blank ipod.

You have to uncheck the box in itunes to sync to the ipod.

You could also use poddox--a nifty little freeware program that works like a simple file transfer

I actually want to connect to to a laptop without i-tunes on it, but with a different Linux music manager. I'm wondering if I can effectively use it as a hard drive without anything going wrong. I guess I should just try it as it surely can't go wrong.

I guess I should just try it as it surely can't go wrong.

I don't know much about Linux music managers, but as brit and sbk have warned you, make sure there's no application already installed on the machine that's going to automatically start and try and sync when you connect your ipod, or you could end up losing everything on there. You might well be able to use it as a HD, but this doesn't necessarily mean you can move any media off it. You'll probably still need a 3rd party application.