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iPod - More Than Music
by Simon Dawson
iPods as a hard drive Moving and backing up files Though they might be revolutionizing the way we listen to music, iPods are, at the end of the day, little more than glorified data storage devices in pretty little boxes. iPods and iPod Minis contain a hard drive exactly the same as the one in a computer, while the iPod shuffle uses a memory "chip". So it's no surprise that, besides its role as a digital music player, an iPod can also function exactly like a standard external drive, storing any type of computer file. Assuming you have some free space on your Pod, you can use it for transporting documents between home and the office. And your Pod will still play music as usual. Enabling hard drive use To use your iPod as a hard drive, first you have to enable this feature. Simply attach the Pod to your computer as usual, and, when iTunes recognizes its presence, click its icon on the Source List and press the iPod Preference button at the bottom of the window (or open the iTunes Preferences window and choose the iPod section). Check the "Enable disk use" box under Music and don't worry about the "manual unmounting" warning that may pop u p - it's only telling you that you'll have to eject the Pod each time you want to disconnect it. Using your new drive Once disk use has been enable, your iPod will appear as a standard drive (or volume), as well as within iTunes, whenever you connect it to your computer. On a Mac it appears on the Desktop and in the left-hand column of Finder windows in this state, the drive is said to be "mounted". On a PC it appears within My Computer as an external drive icon with a drive identification letter (perhaps "F:" or "G:"). Now you can use the drive as you would any other volume within either Windows or Mac OS: view its contents (though your music will be invisible), create folders, drag files on, drag files off. And so on. You'll probably find several folders in the iPod's drive when you open it: these relate to iPod organizer functions and photo functions. None of these folders should be deleted. Ejecting your drive When you are done with the drive, eject it (or "disconnect" it) in the same way you would whenever the "Do not disconnect" message is displaying.
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