Check this user tip by Wjosten about how to back up manually to save your data and settings before your switch to another PC or Mac. Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive. Jun 22, AM. C Go to Edit, click on Preferences and click on Devices. Click OK and close iTunes. D When the backup has completed, left click on your iPad, click on the Apps tab, and put a check mark in the box next to "Sync Apps", and then click on "Apply" bottom right.
E Unless you want to always do a manual sync as I do , go back to Edit, Preferences and uncheck the box next to "Prevent your iPod F Finally, on your iPad, check that everything is syncing properly. If not, go back to iTunes and check all settings. NB You should not lose any apps.
However, any 'purchased' missing apps can be downloaded again FOC. As with updates, this must be done with the Apple ID under which they were originally 'purchased'. Question: Q: Can you sync your iPad to a different computer? Not the first computer when you first sync-ed , without losing your files on the ipad? You can sync as many iOS devices as you want to the same computer. Plug in your iPhone and sync, then plug in your iPod touch and sync.
The contacts will be on all 3. I am trying to sync iphone, ipad, powerpc, mac desktop all together through Mobile me — but i often time get duplicates of contacts and then sometimes a contact will never migrate out to the other devices.. Is there a procedure to sync all the devices together and have them update the other regardless which on i enter the data on?
It should just work, however sometimes a device gets out of sync. Start with your computer and get everything set the way you want it. That should reset all the other devices. I am trying to sync my ipad to a new computer, the old one is dead. Even though I de-authorized all computers it continues to tell me that my ipad is synced with another computer. Any help?
Unless you were able to copy your old iTunes library over to your NEW computer your iPad is going to tell you this. Is there any way to do that. Also I wanna get my Contacts from a backup but not from my Iphone. Can u help me pls. This sounds almost too good to be true!
I only had a PC desktop when I first got my iPhone 4, but now I have a Mac and want to use it as my main sync-ing computer. Is there a way to manually manage Apps on different computers? What about Apps? Is it possible to put an iTunes library on a NAS Server Itunes Server with the possibilty that this library is used from two or three different computers. My guess is that it would work as long as you only had iTunes open on one computer at at time.
Thanks for your help! Will iCal do that? Should I use a 3rd party app to do this? All we need is the ability to have 4 Apple devices in lockstep. Sync over the air. I am looking to get a iPhone 4 for my work phone. I would prefer to have my apps here at home as my iPhone 4 would most like be replacing my personal 3GS I have now. Is this possible at all?
My work contacts are in Outlook, not an exchange account. How do we keep our devices seperate except for music and calendar.
We would like to share music libraries and calendars. Should I invest in Mobileme or sign up for Gmail? Setup a second user account on your desktop computer and have her log in to her account. Now she has her own iTunes setup for syncing the things that are hers. She can log in to your account to sync music and the calendar..
You can sign up for GMail or MobileMe if you want to sync the calendars wirelessly. I have 2 ipads at home and 1 iphone. Recently I rename one of the ipads and sync it.
Then the problems starts and it says that my ipad is sync with another laptop itunes library. Though I can sync 1 ipad but everytime I connect the other one, the same message comes out. How do I overcome this, do I have to reset my ipad and start again. Please advise. Your iPads and iPhone will only sync to one computer at a time.
If you wish to change the computer your device sync to, you can copy everything from your iPad and iPhone to your other computer using a program like TouchCopy and then re-sync your device to iTunes on the new computer.
If I have bought some apps and during sync, these are lost, can I download again without being charged or do I have to contact Apple and ask for special permission and how do I do that? My iPad has synced with another computer. If I click Replace Photos will the photos on my iPad will be delete or replace?
Link to the picture is above. Besides sync iphone with iTunes, I prefer to use Vibosoft iOS transfer tool which can extract ios data to pc directly. Sorry for duplicate post. When I clicked submit comment nothing happens.. So I wrote a new comment and press it again sorry. Thank you. Terry, hope you can help me. I am sure this has been asked before, but since I am new to apple, a lot of what I am reading is not making sense. I have and Ipad on which I have pics, apps, music and books.
I just purchased a Mac desktop and would like to transfer to my new computer. How do I move my info over. I already have the iPad. Can I sync all the apps on my iPad to my iPhone using my itunes then?
My iPhone is set up to sync to my work computer but I would like to sync only contacts, calendar, photos and apps to my home iMac — not my work email I also do not use the iPhone for music. Can this be done? Hi, Lynn. Now you can many transfer tools to do that.
Just transfer the files you want. It can support to transfer many kinds of files between iOS devices and computer. Of course, you will see many tutorials on their website.
The easiest thing to do is to setup a different user for each person in Mac OS X. This way each person would have their own iTunes setup on their account, their own contacts, music, playlists, etc. How do I update my info that is on my phone to my Mac?
Thanks for the guide! Now I know how to sync iPhone with new PC. How can I keep someone from grabbing my iPhone 5 and syncing to their computer without my permission? Have a roommate that has done this a couple of time…. Is there a way that a person would have to have a password to sync my phone to their iTunes?
Maybe you can read this. Apple groups things into four categories: Data — the data or info category consists primarily of things like your contacts, calendar, bookmarks, notes, email accounts, etc.
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By default, all items of a content type are synced, but you can choose to sync individual items, such as selected music, movies, books, or calendars. To view or change syncing options, select your iPad in the Finder sidebar, then choose from the options at the top of the window.
See the Apple Support article Update to the latest version of iTunes. Select the type of content you want to sync for example, Movies or Books in the sidebar on the left. Note: For information about using the File Sharing option, see Transfer files between iPad and your computer.
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