Just bought macbook pro and using homesharing to transfer all music and movies from old mac, if i start syncing iphone in new macbook pro will i loose all content already on it

just bought macbook pro and using home sharing to transfer all music and movies from old mac, if i start syncing iphone in new macbook pro will i loose all content already on it

iTunes: How to move [or copy] your music to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Quick answer if you use iTunes' default preferences settings: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its subfolders and files) intact to the other drive. Open iTunes and immediately hold down the Option (alt) key (shift on Windows), then guide it to the new location of the library.

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