If your friend has got some files on an Apple iPod and you would like to copy them to your own iPod, it is usually necessary to save them to some place on your personal computer and afterwards upload to the other iPod.

AVS iDevice Explorer having a very simple and friendly interface saves your time and computer hard disk space. All you need to do is connect your two iPods to your personal computer using USB cables, start AVS iDevice Explorer program and copy the necessary files from one iPod to the other just like in any other file manager. You will not need any space on your personal computer as the files will be copied directly from one device to the other with no temporary files created.

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Click here to download it. After the download is finished, run the AVSiDeviceExplorer.exe file and follow the installation wizard instructions.

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Use USB cables to connect the Apple iPods to your personal computer. Please make sure that you do not run Apple iTunes program so that there were no conflict of two programs trying to get access to the same iPod at the same time. After that run AVS iDevice Explorer. It will start with the following window:

Note, that you can change the program look so that it could suit you needs and taste better using the Show Tree and Horizontal/Vertical splitting buttons to do that:

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Now you can select the devices in the devices list. Use the drop down boxes or folders trees to find the Apple iPods:

After you found your devices in the list, you should select the files and folders to be uploaded and the destination folder on the second iPod:

Note, that some devices would not understand and playback certain types of files (e.g. audio, video) if they are not placed in the correct folder on this device - i.e. Music or Video folder or alike. Such devices usually have an Inbox folder in their folder structure, so if you are not sure where to place a file, you can copy it into the device Inbox folder and the device will relocate the file into the correct folder itself.

You can also create a folder if it does not exist, using the New Folder button or rename an existing one, using the Rename button. The selection can be done just like in Windows explorer - with the mouse buttons or using the keyboard.

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Click the Copy button to start the copying process or simply drag-and-drop the files and folders from one panel to the other. Note that it might take some time if the size of the files is large:

And that's it!

After the uploading is done you can upload more files or finish the work with AVS iDevice Explorer.

Note: being connected to your personal computer your iPod will show the message of the type:

You can still disconnect your iPod from the computer, no data will be lost in case you haven't tried to copy it to iPod using some other software.

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