How can I find out how much memory is left on my ipod?
I put lots of music on itunes, then put it on the ipod, but ran out of room on the computer memory. I dumped whatever I could and then imported more music, but then ran out of room again. Finally I dumped my music library and itunes itself and started over. When all the music was on itunes the first time the display at the bottom of the screen told me how many mb's of music I had, plus how many songs (and "days", whatever that is). I have a 4GB ipod and was getting close to 3MB. But now that itunes has only a few CD's on it I need to know how many more songs my ipod will hold, or in other words how many MB's does the ipod have left? And- what happens when it gets full? Does it automatically start dumping songs in order to make room or will it just tell me it is full?
When you plug it into iTunes it should have the iPod page come up..that will have a bar that shows how much memory you have/have used. Also right on the iPod under Settings, About it says precisely how much memory you have left in MB/GB.
If you are running out of hard drive space (hard drive spave and memory are not the same), you need to clear some old files/applications off it.
Generally, you should keep 10%-15% free space on your boot hard drive.
On an 80GB hard drive, that is _*at least*_ 8GB free space.
You could consider getting an external hard drive.
250GB external hard drives are ~$70 now.
When you library capacity exceeds the capacity of your iPod, iTunes will ask you if you want iTunes to make a playlist to use to sync your Nano. Neither the Nano nor iTunes automatically "dump" files when capacity is exceeded.