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Use iPod shue to carry your data as well as your music.
Read this chapter to nd out how to use iPod shue as an external disk.
Using iPod shue as an external disk
You can use iPod shue as an external disk to store data les.
To sync iPod shue with music and other audio that you want to listen to, you must use
iTunes. You can’t play audio les that you copy to iPod shue using the Macintosh Finder or
Windows Explorer.
Use iPod shue as an external disk:
1 Connect iPod shue to your computer.
2 In iTunes, select iPod shue in the list of devices, then click Summary.
3 Under Options, select “Enable disk use.”
You may need to scroll down to see the disk settings.
4 Click Apply.
When you use iPod shue as an external disk, the iPod shue disk icon appears on the desktop
on a Mac, or as the next available drive letter in Windows Explorer on a Windows PC.
When iPod shue is enabled as an external disk and you connect it to your computer, the status
light blinks orange continuously. Be sure to eject iPod shue in iTunes before you disconnect it
from your computer.
Copying les between computers
When you enable disk use on iPod shue, you can copy les from one computer to another.
iPod shue is formatted as a FAT-32 volume, which is supported by both Macs and PCs. This
allows you to use iPod shue to copy les between computers with dierent operating systems.
Copy les between computers:
1 After enabling disk use on iPod shue, connect it to the computer you want to copy the les from.
Important: If iPod shue is set to sync automatically, when you connect iPod shue to a
dierent computer or user account, a message asks if you want to erase iPod shue and sync
with the new iTunes library. Click Cancel if you don’t want to erase what’s on iPod shue.
2 Using the computer’s le system (the Finder on a Mac, or Windows Explorer on a PC), drag the
les to your iPod shue.
3 Disconnect iPod shue, and then connect it to the other computer.
Again, click Cancel if you don’t want to erase what’s on iPod shue.
4 Drag the les from iPod shue to a location on the other computer.
Storing Files on iPod shue