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Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac?

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On 10/19/17 5:13 p, nospam wrote:
> In article <osb3mq$lst$1@dont-email.me>, Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh>
> wrote:
> 
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to everyone for helping me out with this! It seems as I feared
>>>> that trying to manage one iPod from multiple Macs was not going to work.
>>>
>>> it does if you do it manually.
>>
>> I'm confused now. I thought people had said that manually dragging a new
>> playlist from iTunes on computer B onto an iPod that already had a
>> different playlist from iTunes on computer A would delete the computer B
>> playlist.
> 
> it's *syncing* that replaces content (and only after user confirmation).
> 
>> You're saying both playlists (and the songs they contain, of
>> course) would exist side by side on the iPod? That's exactly what I'm
>> looking to do.
> 
> if you enable manually manage music and video, you can source content
> from multiple computers, however, keeping track of everything is up to
> you, not itunes.
> 
> manually managing content also means that whatever you copied manually
> is not included in a backup (you did tell itunes you were handling it),
> which means if you do a restore, you have to drag all the music and
> video yourself. it's a lot more work, but it does what you say you want
> to do (which may not be the best solution).
> 
> <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201593>
> 
>> Or is it auto-syncing which zaps the computer A playlist?
> 
> yes.

Thanks, nospam! This is the detail I was looking for but didn't 
understand from the other posts. Looks like I can do what I want to do 
after all. As to backup, I'm not worried in this case because the iPod 
under consideration will only have a few gigs of songs which will often 
be changed. Of course, the original songs on the Macs are all backed up 
with Time Machine and disk images.

Thanks again.

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  Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-10-17 20:56 +0000
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  Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2017-10-17 16:07 -0700
    Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-10-17 23:53 +0000
      Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-10-17 20:18 -0400
        Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-10-18 02:47 +0000
          Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-10-17 23:06 -0400
            Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-10-19 00:32 +0000
              Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-10-18 22:13 -0400
  Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2017-10-17 21:50 -0400
    Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-10-17 22:08 -0400
  Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-10-18 19:42 -0400
    Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-10-19 00:33 +0000
    Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-10-18 22:13 -0400
      Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-10-19 16:59 -0400
        Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-10-19 17:13 -0400
          Re: ?Managing iPod with more than one Mac? Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-10-20 15:59 -0400

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