1. Open itunes on your old computer.
2. Connect your ipod to your old computer and wait for it to appear in itunes.
3. Select your ipod in the Source pane under the Devices section to display your ipod preferences in the main library window.
4. Click the Summary tab in the main itunes window.
5. Click the Manually manage music button. Changing from automatic updating to manual puts a check mark by Enable disk use. A message says "Disabling automatic update requires manually unmounting the ipod before each disconnect."
6. Click OK in the message window.
7. Click Apply in the ipod preferences section of the itunes window.
8. Is there enough room on the ipod? ipod shares its hard disk space between the songs that itunes puts on it and any files you've added when using its disk mode. To transfer music with your ipod, you need enough free space to hold a copy of all your music files in addition to any copies that may already have been placed by itunes (this is because non-purchased songs placed on the ipod by itunes cannot be copied off the ipod while in disk mode). To figure out how much space you have on your ipod:
a. Open itunes on your old computer.
b. Click on Music in the Source pane. The size of your library appears at the bottom of the itunes window.
c. Connect your ipod to your old computer and wait for it to appear in itunes.
d. Click the ipod under the Devices section of the Source pane. The amount of free space on the ipod appears near the bottom of the itunes window.
e. Copy itunes folder to ipod To copy all your music files (including the library file that holds all your playlists and other settings) to your ipod:
1. Quit itunes.
2. Locate your ipod:
-Mac OS X: On the desktop
- Windows: In My Computer
3. Locate your itunes folder:
- Mac OS X: /Users/username/Music
- Windows: Documents and SettingsusernameMy DocumentsMy Music
4. Drag the itunes folder to the ipod. This can take a while if you have a lot of songs.
5. When the copy completes open itunes.
6. Click on the ipod in the Source pane
7. Click the Eject button in the lower right corner of the itunes window.
8. Disconnect the ipod from the computer when the "Do not disconnect" message no longer appears on the ipod screen.
9. Get itunes ready on your new computer To get itunes ready to accept all your music on your new computer:
a. Download and install the latest version of itunes.
b. Open itunes on your new computer. If this is your first time to open itunes on your new computer you will need to choose your options in the itunes Setup Assistant.
c. Connect the ipod to your new computer.
d. Copy music from ipod to new computer To copy all your music files (including the library file that holds all your playlists and other settings) to your new computer:
1. Locate your Music folder (Mac OS X) or your My Music folder (Windows) on your new computer:
- Mac OS X: /Users/username/Music
- Windows: Documents and SettingsusernameMy DocumentsMy Music
2. Drag the itunes folder in this location out to the desktop.
3. Locate the ipod on the new computer:
- Mac OS X: On the desktop.
- Windows: In My Computer.
4. Double-click on the ipod to open it.
5. Drag the itunes folder from the ipod to the Music folder (Mac OS X) or My Music Folder (Windows) on your new computer. This can take a while if you have a lot of songs.
6. Open itunes.
