I will change my computer, so I'm going to have to sync my iPhone with the new computer. How not to lose my contacts and calendar?

I will change my computer, so I'm going to have to sync my iPhone with the new computer. How not to lose my contacts and calendar?

I just need to transfer my contact list on the new computer?
Ok, thank you for the information!

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    Hi,
    I lost my computer.
    How can I sincronize me Iphone with the new computer without loose my contacts and apps?
    Thanks
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    It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer.
    Use your backup copy to move everything to the new computer.
    If for some reason you have failed to maintain a backup ( not good), then you can transfer itunes purchases from the iphone:  File>Transfer Purchases
    If you enter one unique contact and calendar entry on your computer, then when you first sync you should get the option to merge the data.

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    I have deauthorised the old computer and authorised the new one with my apple ID.
    However, when I try to sync my phone to the new computer it wont update anything on my iphone (i.e. photos that are on the computer wont transfer over etc, even though I have selected that file to sync). It is starting the sync but then comes up on the progress bar saying "cancelling sync".
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    This will define syncing http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296. The advantage is it allows you to backup the phone, you can sync music onto the phone, as well as contacts and calendars.

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    a manual backup should help to transfer your data and apps.
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    See what's included in this backup here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
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    The rest of the data can be restored again from the manual backup you made before.
    Music is one way only, from the computer to your device, unless you bought the songs in itunes and transferred your purchases.
    There is 3rd party software out there, but not supported by Apple, see this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2013615&tstart=0
    Restoring: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
    Apps can be downloaded again for free, in case you missed some: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

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    The simplest way to acheive what you want is to use Micragion Assistant to move your user account from your old MacBook to the new iMac. I recently moved from an old iMac to a new one and when connecting my iPhone and iPad for the first time, all I had to do was enter my password to authorize it in iTunes.

  • How do I sync my iPhone with a new computer without losing all of my data?

    How do I sync my iPhone to a new computer without losing all of data?

    See this user tip for the procedure: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

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    I'm sure this is a pretty common issue but I want to get this completely right before I screw up and make things worse. First off, I do have access at this point to both computers, so maybe thatll help. Is the best way to get my new computer to sync correctly is to do restore purchases? Let me emphasize that basically the state that my iphone is in (apps songs etc.) is the way I want the new computer to be, regardless of what the library is on the new comp already. Is there any way to sync so that what is on the phone (at least the first time) can completely overrides and ignores, taking priority over the computer's info? If so, that's what I want. Otherwise, Ill try another way. Either doing the transfer purchases method or, someone I talked to said you could manually move your itunes library over to the new computer by putting it on a storage media and pasting it over whats on the itunes data on the new computer and replacing it. Is this possible? I only ask because the last time I tried transferring purchases it proceeded to completely fill my phone and run it out of space so not everything (some apps) did not come over. I do not want to sync my phone to the new computer and have to redownload things if I can help it. If anyone could help or need more info Ill give it, thanks if you can help!

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    Many thanks in advance!

    Well I forget the exact keys, but believe pressing and holding down CTRL before clicking Restore will allow you to browse and find the backup file (may be wrong).
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    My first post here and please allow me to say I reluctantly post as I hate wasting peoples time but could do with some handholding and advice. Hopefully it's just a simple case of you guys saying 'YES!'.
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    My iPhone 3GS was backed up via sync to 2 different [location] PCs.
    The main location was here at 'home' where I managed my Music Library and Apps on a Vista based laptop.
    My 'Work' PC simply dealt with sync of Contacts with a folder in Outlook.
    The home PC was backed up fully typically once a fortnight.
    A few weeks ago, my home PC had a catastrophic failure and it is clear I can't recover from the HDD.
    I restored the key folders from the backup to a 'from backup' folder on the new PC and not the same folder structure as it has Windows 7.
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    user, 'virtualgeo' summarises neatly the steps of sync'ing so I guess this would figure the same here but with an iPhone.
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