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Quick Question From a Paranoid Newbie

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The Riot Act:
Hey, everyone. I'll be using this on my iPod video, and I'm just wondering if there's any chance that using Rockbox can corrupt or otherwise damage the actual files on PC's hard drive?

Sorry for the stupidity of this question, butI have roughly 600 albums/bootlegs etc. and it would be a shame to have anything happen to them. LOL.

Thanks. :)

mnhnhyouh:
I dont think it can, but have a more important question for you.

Given HDs do die of their own accord, why dont you have these files backed up?

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The Riot Act:
I do, actually. But I only do it once every few months.

Llorean:
It seems to me the simplest solution would be to rip any originals to the host PC, and then copy them to the device, which would mean that just the operation of putting the files on the device would result in at least one backup copy.

But Rockbox does not actually write to your music files at all (at least the official build does not, I can't speak for the unofficial builds as I don't know if any of them have patches that may allow for this) so there's no more risk than simply accessing and reading from the drive.

karlk:
Llorean has a point-- If you have all your music in iTunes and on your ipod, then you have 2 copies right there. Worst case scenario, you can restore your ipod to factory defaults and resync it with iTunes.

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