Q.&A.: Putting Your iPod Nano Videos on Your Computer

You can either drag the whole folder onto your computer to copy them, or open the DCIM folder (and the 000Apple folder inside it) to drag the individual MPEG-4 movie clips to the computer’s hard drive. After you copy the video files to the computer, you can drag them to the Trash or Recycle Bin to delete them from the Nano to free up some drive space. Getting the video files stored on the iPod Nano copied back to your computer takes an extra few steps than syncing files to the player through iTunes. Open the iPod Nano icon, either from the My Computer area in Windows or by double-clicking on its icon on the Mac desktop. First, connect the iPod Nano to the computer and click on its icon when it appears in the iTunes Source list. ” In addition to being a media player and recorder, the iPod Nano is now an external flash drive with a desktop icon like any other external drive connected to the computer.