Backwards sync?

I do computer repair and have a customer who had a bad hard drive. I have replaced this and now want to get the music/videos from his ipod back into iTunes. How do I do this?

See this older thread from another forum member Zevoneer on different ways to copy media from an iPod back to a PC or Mac.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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Photo Albums - Backwards Sync

While I was away on work, my girlfriend accidentally delete the photos stored on my PC...
All the pictures I take, I remove copy from CameraRoll to my PC, divide them amongst several folders and then synch with my iPhone - I have been doing this for a while, so all the pictures I have taken over the last 6-8 months reside in these synched folders and only these synched folders...
As I mentioned, though... my girlfriend deleted the ones one my PC HD while I was away. If I connect my iPhone to iTunes, will it backward synch them for me? (i.e. will it pull the pics / albums off my iPhone and store them on my PC as they were?)
If not, how do I retrieve all of my pics from my iPhone?
Thanks in advance,
Franklyn

If you had them all checked to sync and some didn't sync, then you can try several things. Try each below in order and try to resync after each:
1) Play a video or a movie clip. Sounds strange, but it worked for one person posting.
2) Press and Hold the Home and Wake Sleep buttons until the Apple Logo appears.
3) If that doesn't work, try a reset, To reset go to Settings, General, Reset, Reset. This sill scramble your icons but no data will be lost.
If none of the above work, it may be an issue with iphoto. (I am assuming you are using iphoto to sync photos.)

Backwards sync??? Taking pre-synced photos off iPhone

Long story short, I have a few hundred pics from my PC synced to my iPhone, formatted my HDD, didn't back up photos. D'oh! Does anybody know ANY WAY of taking the photos that were previousely synced from the PC (i.e. NOT shot from the iPhone's camera) and putting them back on the PC? My backup CD for photos is like a year old.
I know Apple's products aren't designed to do simple things like this, which is why iPhone is the only Apple product I have, but I know there are also usually ways to get around it. I remember a friend found a way to get his music off of his iPod because he lost everything on his PC. This is the same deal, only replace iPdo with iPhone and music with photos. Thanks guys
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The following may be what you've already tried, but just in case it's not -- or even if it is, there may be a step or option missed: The quote below is from http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4236
To delete synced photos and videos from your device
In iTunes, click the Device button in the upper right corner. (If viewing the iTunes Store, click the Library button in the upper-right corner first.)
Click the Photos tab in the resulting window.
Choose "Selected albums" and deselect the albums or collections you want to delete.
Note: To delete all synced photos, deselect "Sync Photos from" and, when asked, click "Remove photos."
Click Apply.
To delete Camera Roll photos and videos from your device
There are two methods to delete items from the Camera Roll:
Import the Camera Roll to your computer and choose to delete items after import.
Delete photos and videos from your device manually:
Open the Photos application and open the Camera Roll.
Tap the Action button.
Tap each photo to select it.
Tap the Delete button.
Note: For photos and videos you want to save, import them to your computer before deleting them from the Camera Roll

Can iPod mini be backwards-sync'ed?

I'm trying to update my computer's iTunes library so that I don't have to plug in my iPod mini every time I want to listen to music on my computer. Is there a way to put music from the iPod to iTunes?

Getting Music from your iPod to your Computer 3rd party options
Moving Your Music to a New Computer Through the iPod from Apple
I hope this helps!

Hi. I'm new here and a noob. I just got my new rMBP and I already have an iPad3. When I tried syncing it with the MacBook, I was warned that I was about to loose all data?

My iPad 3 usually syncs with a Windows PC, but since I got the new Mac I thought I'd now sync with it. But when I connected the iPad and tried syncing, iTunes is warning me that I am about to loose all existing data in the iPad and it will be replaced with data from the Mac. I do not have any data on the laptop yet, though I have a lot of photos, music, videos and stuff, most of all many paid apps and games! Now how do I do the syncing without loosing all this? How can I tell my laptop to keep all data in the iPad intact, make a copy of it in teh laptop and go on from there?

It's a problem that happens when you change libraries. Backward syncing only works if you have the Apps on your iDevice downloaded into iTunes through the Transfer Purchases option, but this still does not cover your media (Movies.. Songs.. etc.)
When you double click on a file to play it in iTunes, it will duplicate that file and place the new copy in iTunes' directory. By default, all the files that appear in iTunes must come from this location, and you do not have this directory 'filled up' with the same files you used to sync to.
I guess Apple could solve this issue by allowing iTunes libraries to automatically tag media to particular devices for ease of syncing, but what if you want to sync the same device with 2 different libraries on different computers?
I normally don't sync apps with iTunes at all, because iCloud handles that.

Issues syncing from BB to Gmail account

Background info: I have two email accounts linked to my Torch: personal gmail, and a Google Apps account for work (on which also lives my entire calendar, work and personal).
Two issues:
1) Every time I send an email from the personal account - either on the computer OR on the BB (this is NOT an issue for the work account), it shows up not only as a "sent mail," but it also sends me an additional copy from "myself". This is not destructive, just annoying...nothing like a day of cranking out emails on the computer and all of a sudden, 50+ "new messages" whenever I look at the phone.(interestingly, this is NOT happening on my Thai SIM card that I currently have in the phone, but it's been an issue since Day 1 in the US)
2) Contact syncing. The accounts sync to the BB (via Google Sync), but if I change something on it, it won't sync back to the address books on the browser. Is there any way to enable backward syncing?
Also, the only contacts that continue to duplicate are those that remain in the "My Contacts" list on the personal account (which is a group of about 10 RANDOM people that I did not put there - appeared unexpectedly - also, all my contact groups in that account have been emptied out).
Anyone know how to deal with either of these issues? Thanks in advance...

for your first question, please read the following articles from the public knowledge base:
Article ID: KB10332 Duplicate sent email message arrives on the BlackBerry smartphone when sent using an integrated Gmail account
Article ID: KB11127 Duplicate sent email messages are delivered to the BlackBerry smartphone when using Auto BCC
for the contact synchronization, please read this other article:
Article ID: KB19269 What is Google Mail contact synchronization
The search box on top-right of this page is your true friend, and the public Knowledge Base too:

Frozen Syncing

I have Outlook Express on my computer. Initially when I set up my iPhone and synced, my contact list went into my IPhone. Subsequently each time I have tried to Sync my iPhone, it came up with an error message about not being able to Sync my Contacts. Now when I try to Sync - I plug in the iPhone and it iTunes just gets stuck on "Syncing Contacts" - i have left it on over night and no amount of time allows it to move past this point. As a result i cannot complete a Sync and download music or transfer purchases made on the iPhone to the iTunes library. Any suggestions very welcome as I am out of ideas.
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Hello roaminggnome,
I’ve seen your posts with regard to syncing and you seem very knowledgeable. I'm hoping you might be able to help me.
Here’s my problem: My home PC crashed. I was able to get the system back up, but I had to reformat the hard drive to get it going and consequently lost all software. After resurrecting my system, I reinstalled iTunes and tried to sync my iPhone with the system. My hope was that iTunes would recognize that there had been a previous “relationship” with this particular phone and PC and a sync back to the PC would be allowed.
I understand the security features in place to prevent this type of “backwards syncing” but under my circumstances, where there has been no change in hardware, is there any way to make the software recognize the previous relationship between these two systems and allow me to sync everything from my iPhone back to the PC?
Thanks in advance for your valuable time and input.

How can I save my music from iPod to a new computer?

Probably this problem got solved already in the past but I could not find help till now. I still use my iPod 30gb Classic from 2005 but the computer with which I made the syncs is broken and I got myself a new one. I wanted to save the music files from iPod to the new computer with iTunes so that I have another backup if this iPod should get broke in the future. But I could not backup the music files, somehow. Anyone has help? Thanks in advance.

How it was originally designed by Apple is you store your music in iTunes on a Mac or a PC. you back up your computer. you add to your library through the computer. you then sync to ipod classic. it was never intended to move music back the other way unless you purchased the music from iTunes store.
If your compuetr breaks you restore iTunes library from computer backup.
in many cases music is reduced in size and quality to 128kbps on sync so backwards sync would lose library quality.
finally, it avoids people illegally sharing music, or stealing music from lost or stolen ipods.
to backwards sync you will need to either get into the risky business of third party software, or find a PC running Linux and Rhythmbox and ask again. I probably said too much.

How to upload from iPod Touch to iTunes?

I lost my Windows 7 hard drive to the 'Virut' virus (NASTY), and fell back to my old Vista drive. When I installed the new version of iTunes, I found it doesn't have all the apps that I have on my iPod? Is there a way to backwards sync, er is that what I want to do? Confused and tired - IM

Well, if you have paid apps, you can download them freely with your account and your iPod connected. Do the process of downloading. But, it's very unlikely that your iTunes doesn't transferred your iPod's apps. To do this you simply have to sync your iPod and wait until iTunes transfers all the apps.
Good luck!

Remove packages and all the config files associated with it

How can I remove a package and all the files folders hidden folders config files and examples which are installed with it.
In short how can I revert the system back to the state when the package was not even there.
When i remove a package i still see some folders which are associated with it in some weird directories.
Is there a way to get rid of those.
Thanks

From the pacman man page:
Remove Options
-c, --cascade
Remove all target packages, as well as all packages that depend on one or more target packages. This operation is recursive, and must be used with care since it can remove many potentially needed packages.
-k, --keep
Removes the database entry only. Leaves all files in place.
-n, --nosave
Instructs pacman to ignore file backup designations. Normally, when a file is removed from the system the database is checked to see if the file should be renamed with a ".pacsave" extension.
-s, --recursive
Remove each target specified including all of their dependencies, provided that (A) they are not required by other packages; and (B) they were not explicitly installed by the user. This operation is recursive and analogous to a backwards --sync operation, and helps keep a clean system without orphans.
-n seems to be what you are looking for.

Having trouble with each track being input into the library individually

Old computer was fried, couldn't backwards sync iPod to new computer. Now trying to import CDs into Library and it is adding each track as an item in the Library rather than the whole album or CD. I've tried it twice. This is so aggravating!!!

Not glad to hear that you are having the same issue but I'm glad I'm not crazy and doing something wrong. It seems this version of iTunes was a real stinker.

[Solved] Removing software

Hello all,
Lately I've been installing some software to test new applications. I deleted the ones I don't want, but ofcourse they've left quite some dependencies on my system, out of which some I don't even need. Coming from an Ubuntu install, I know that in Ubuntu I've got the command
sudo apt-get autoremove
to automatically remove unneeded libs etc. I wonder if Arch Linux has a similar feature? I've tried the man page, but other than
-u, --unneeded
Removes the targets that are not required by any other packages.
This is mostly useful when removing a group without using the -c
option, to avoid breaking any dependencies.
I didn't find anything.
Last edited by Unia (2010-08-17 13:25:02)

Check under the "Remove" the "-c" "-n" and the "-s".
REMOVE OPTIONS
-c, --cascade
Remove all target packages, as well as all packages that depend on one or more target packages. This
operation is recursive, and must be used with care since it can remove many potentially needed
packages.
-k, --dbonly
Removes the database entry only. Leaves all files in place.
-n, --nosave
Instructs pacman to ignore file backup designations. Normally, when a file is removed from the system
the database is checked to see if the file should be renamed with a ".pacsave" extension.
-s, --recursive
Remove each target specified including all of their dependencies, provided that (A) they are not
required by other packages; and (B) they were not explicitly installed by the user. This operation is
recursive and analogous to a backwards --sync operation, and helps keep a clean system without orphans.
If you want to omit condition (B), pass this option twice.
So, pacman -Rcn for "autoremove" equivalnt, and -Rcns for a more thorough removal, which will remove deps that could stay as orphans
Last edited by flamelab (2010-08-17 13:20:57)

How to remove gnome without dependency errors?

I'm a little frustrated with pacman right now.
I downloaded gnome, thinking I wanted it. I don't. So I went to remove the two things I installed with pacman: gnome and gnome-extra. But I can't, because the other packages that came with them depend on others within gnome. I don't care, though - I want ALL of gnome removed. Short of manually removing each dependency tree, which takes FOREVER, how can I easily get rid of this plague on my system? pacman -Rs gnome doesn't work, and I don't know what else to do.

sl wrote:
to remove a pkg and its deps use pacman -Rs
(other combinations include. pacman -R[c,cc,n]s)
i don't remember if it acts on groups (i think taht's what teh `n' option does, i'm not sure), as for the `c' that removes the downloaded pkgs as well ...
other tahn taht, only tip i got is try tro remove gnome (p -R gnome gnome-extra, etc) ..
and each time if it complaisn about deps. just add those pkgs to it as well#
so you'd have ..
pacman -Rns gnome gnome-extra gnome-terminal****
Eeeek! I suggest you read the pacman manpage again.
REMOVE OPTIONS
-c, --cascade
Remove all target packages, as well as all packages that depend
on one or more target packages. This operation is recursive.
-k, --keep
Removes the database entry only. Leaves all files in place.
-n, --nosave
Instructs pacman to ignore file backup designations. Normally,
when a file is removed from the system the database is checked
to see if the file should be renamed with a .pacsave extension.
-s, --recursive
Remove each target specified including all dependencies, pro-
vided that (A) they are not required by other packages; and (B)
they were not explicitly installed by the user. This option is
analogous to a backwards --sync operation.

[SOLVED] Change DE without format

Hi All,
I'm so new of Arch but my loving it!
Now I've installed Arch with gnome but now i whant to move to kde (I've use it with another distro and i prefer it than gnome)
To let arch work i've read and follow the beginner guide.
I want to ask you if there's a way to roll-back the "pc-status" at the point of the guide where I've to chose what DE I want to use.
In other words i want to get back a fresh installation without DE and withou format the pc.
Is it possible?
I don't think that a pacman R gnome gnome-extra is sufficient.... isn't it?
Thank you in advance and sorry for my bad english!
Ale
Last edited by Alexbit (2010-06-14 10:20:42)

man pacman wrote:-s Remove each target specified including all of their dependencies, provided that (A) they are not required by other packages; and (B) they were not explicitly installed by the user. This operation is recursive and analogous to a backwards --sync operation, and helps keep a clean system without orphans. If you want to omit condition (B), pass this option twice.
That's what's probably going on on your system. If you've gat an app that's relying on some part of gnome (and believe me, there are many), pacman won't uninstall it.
That's the buty edit: "beauty" of dependency management. Otherwise it would be easy to break pretty much everything.
EDIT: Oh well, it's early morning over here. Need some coffee!
Last edited by JackH79 (2010-06-03 00:39:51)

Manually managing music on iPhone from multiple computers

Everything I've read 'claims' this can be but I don't think the people who tell you how to do it even bother to see what happens. This is one of the things that really frustrate me about forums. It's the complete lack of thoroughness of the people who reply to a question without knowing the outcome.
It's a simple task. I want to be able to move music from multitple computers to my iPhone. When I go into iTunes and select the device, in my case it's the iPhone, and check the box to manually manage music and videos then click 'apply' I get a warning that everything is going to be erased from the phone. WTH!?! And no one on ANY forum who suggests this is the proper way manually managing music even has a solution to be able to do this WITHOUT erasing the phone.
C'mon Apple. It's a SIMPLE drag-n-drop implementation. How hard can it be? I'm not the least interested in syncing with some music library on the computer. In fact I don't even sync my phone with the iTunes Library. It's a waste of time because I can't even selectively sync music. It's either all or nothing. STUPID. I simply want to move music on and off the phone. You know, drag into the window to add and drag off to remove. And I want to be able to do it from any computer I want that's running iTunes. I shouldn't have to copy music from a different computer, carry it home and add it from the home system. That completely defeats the concept of portability. And if my home computer happens to go south for some reason then what? Even if I have all my music backed up, I have to wipe out all my music on the phone and start all over because I'm now using a different computer. Who was the genius that came up with that ludicrous idea?
Apple you really need to take a page from Sandisk and allow iPhones to be treated as external drives so we can drag and drop our music onto them. No muss no fuss. Simple and clean with no hair pulling. It's already established the you create some very pretty devices. Now let's work on improving usability. Because the way I see it, it's a bit backwards.

Sync iPod/iPad/iPhone with two computers
Although it isn't possible to sync an Apple device with two different libraries it is possible to sync with the same logical library from multiple computers. Each library has an internal ID and when iTunes connects to your iPod/iPad/iPhone it compares the local ID with the one the device normally syncs with. If they are the same you can go ahead and sync...
I have my library cloned to a small 1Tb USB drive which I can take between home & work. At either location I use SyncToy 2.1 to update the local copy with the external drive. Mac users should be able to find similar tools. I can open either of the local libraries or the one on the external drive and update the media content of my iPhone. The slight exception is Photos which normally connects to a specific folder on a specific machine, although that can easily be remapped to the current library if you create a "Photos" folder inside the iTunes Media folder so that syncing the iTunes folders keeps this up to date as well. I periodically sweep my library for new files & orphans with iTunes Folder Watch just in case I make changes at one location but then overwrite the library with a newer copy from the other. Again Mac users should be able to find similar tools.
As long as your media is organised within an iTunes Music or Tunes Media folder, in turn held inside the main iTunes folder that has your library files (whether or not you let iTunes keep the media folder organised) each library can access items at the same relative path from the library folder so the library can be at different drives/paths on different machines. This solution ensures I always have adequate backups of my library and I can update my devices whenever I can connect to the same build of iTunes.
When working with an iPhone earlier builds of iTunes would remove any file not physically present in the local library, even if there was an entry for it, making manual management practically redundant on the iPhone. This behaviour has been changed but it will still only permit manual management with a library that has the correct internal ID. If you don't want to sync your library between machines on a regular basis just copy the iTunes Library.itl file from the current "home" machine to any other you want to use, then clean out the library entires and import the local content you have on that box.
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