Manually manage music & videos

Hi, I accidentally ticked this in the option section of my device in my itunes account and now I can't untick it.
I want to move across a purchase from my itunes account to my ipod and although I've sync'd I think this must be stopping it moving across.
Thanks for any help you can offer

On the iPhone Summary screen, there is an option to sync only checked songs and videos. The only problem I have with that is the Video tab has its own set of checks that don't seem to correlate with the checks in the library.

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Something I dont understand...(manually manage music/videos)

It seems that I accidentally made a mistake at some point and wasnt aware they were all connected in this regards.
I manually manage all my Music (songs), Movies & TV Shows on the iPad.
So i select and drag the content I want. (im still not keen on "syncing music & videos).
At any rate I was purchasing a few books off iBooks and i wanted to sync them back to the Mac I port my iPod with.
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During that process it removed all my manually added music & videos.
Then disabled the Manually Manage music & videos check box in my iPad preferences.
Well it doesnt say anything about books...is there any way to change this as I dont have a lot of books and would like them to be synced back and forth between iPad and my Mac.
But want to retain my personal music and video collection .....
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LoudspeakerMusic wrote:
It seems that I accidentally made a mistake at some point and wasnt aware they were all connected in this regards.
I manually manage all my Music (songs), Movies & TV Shows on the iPad.
So i select and drag the content I want. (im still not keen on "syncing music & videos).
At any rate I was purchasing a few books off iBooks and i wanted to sync them back to the Mac I port my iPod with.
I realized "Books" werent synced to my Mac or to the iPad so I selected sync Books and applied.
During that process it removed all my manually added music & videos.
Then disabled the Manually Manage music & videos check box in my iPad preferences.
Well it doesnt say anything about books...is there any way to change this as I dont have a lot of books and would like them to be synced back and forth between iPad and my Mac.
But want to retain my personal music and video collection .....
In the early days I used the same technique you did but soon found it did not suit my usage patterns so I opted to 'manually' manage my music through playlists and by individually checking the videos I wish to have loaded so I leave the box 'Manually manage...' unchecked.
I create playlists and sync only those playlists I wish to be on a given device. For example, my 32GB 3GS iPhone, my 32GB iPhone 4, and my iPad contain the same music and the major playlist is named 32GB. For my iPad I currently use the 32GB playlist because I only have 20GB of music.
I also have a similar playlist for my old 16GB 3G--yes, that playlist is named 16GB. I also have individual playlists both plain and smart set up for each device and I select them, too, but all songs that are on a given device are in the 16GB or 32GB playlists. Since the song only has to be on the device one time placing it in multiple playlists on the device does not place additional copies of the song on the device.
To sync by playlist you connect your iPad, select it in the devices area to the left, click on the Music tab and check on Sync Music. In the box below the Sync Music you select 'Selected playlists, artists, and genres'. I only use playlists, but the others work as well.
For Movies you select the Movies tab. Select 'Sync Movies'. You can chose the 'Automatic' mode but for me none of the options work so I leave the automatic box unchecked and then individually check the movies I wish to go to my iPad.
It is simple this way and I found it to be much more efficient than manually managing music videos via the checkbox.
Books can be handled in the same manner via the Books tab.

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I recently got a new iphone 4s and when it was set up I made sure the manually manage music part was on, I added my music and everything worked fine.
I'm abroad now and wanted to delete and change some of my music but the manually manage box is no longer ticked and I get the warning saying "Your phone is Synced with another iTunes Library do you want to erase this iphone and sync with this itunes libary". How can I get around this I dont want to lose all my music!!!!
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Lukek07 wrote:
"Your phone is Synced with another iTunes Library do you want to erase this iphone and sync with this itunes libary".
As the message infers, you can only sync your iDevice to
a single iTunes library. The only way around this, which is
of no real use to you now but for future reference, is to have
your iTunes library (entire iTunes folder) an a separate hard
drive and carry it around where ever you go. Any computer
you have will need to be set up to connect its iTunes to that
library.
The one caveat of this is that is backups of the iDevice.
Each computer will have a different backup file depending on
when you synced to the computers (backups are stored
in ~/Library/Application Support/Mobile Sync/ Backup on
the computer not in iTunes library). Where this is problematic
is if you need to do a restore and you only have a computer
available with an old backup and not the most recent.
The other problem will be if you manage Address Book, Calendars,
etc. different on different computers. Things can get jumbled, lost,
or just plain add duplicates.
As for your current situation, there really isn't much you can do.

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Copy over your photos too plus any other important documents.
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I think you are confusing the two meaning of manual management.
When they asked and you said you would manually manage it, you told itunes not to copy things to your device because you planned to do it manually with the computers file browser.
If that is not what you want, and what it sounds like, you should allow itunes to manage the device, and then the check box thing you are trying to do should work for you.

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with my ipod I can manually manage music on multiple PC's
on my wife's Iphone it goes to auto sync on the 2nd PC
am I doing something wrong?

Since disk mode is required for this, probably for security reasons which is not a concern with an iPod only without internet access.
what would be the purpose of manually managing then?
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Have you tried resetting the device (nothing will be lost): Hold down the Home and Power buttons at the same time and continue to hold them down until the Apple appears (up to 30 seconds). Once the Home screen redisplays, see if your Music app is behaving normally.
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Yea, i managed to fix my issue in a wild fashion way But I DONT suggest it to anyone.
I like to hear why it happened after upgrading iTunes and if there is any peaceful solution.
Bythe way, here is how i fixed it :
1-i checked "manually manage music and videos" checkbox and clicked on "Sync" button
2-It showed a threating message that it will erase my music and videos ,......
3-I clicked on OK button and let iTunes do any thing she said , but the second it started to delete my treasures from my iphone, i disconnected my phone by pulling USB cable.
Now i have my musics and videos untouched and got that Option enabled again and i can manage my Music/Videos and Books manually.

Question About "Manually Manage Music and Videos"

Hi!
I have a podcast stuck on my iPod. It is not deleted from a Playlist upon syncing, even though I've deleted it from the Playlist in iTunes. It still shows up in the "On My Device" representation of the Playlist, and of course, on the iPod itself. So I thought to manually delete it, but of course it's name is obfuscated in the iPod's directory. So I thought that maybe I could do it by selecting "manually manage music and videos" in iTunes. Presumably files would become human readable then, yes?
Here's my question: What will happen to all the content already on my iPod via syncing if I check that box? Will it all (all 140 GB) disappear and have to be re-synced? Or can I check that box, go in and delete the one podcast, then uncheck the box, all without affecting the rest of the content already on the device?
TIA for your help!

If you post from a a question from the bottom of an article's page then you should get its reference, e.g. HT1535 in your case, on the post's title. The ability to edit you post only lasts for 15 minutes and allows you to correct/add extra info.
I get the 'manually manage music and videos' tockbox as described on that article. If you only 'videos' then are you using iTunes Match on your iPad ? I don't use it but I've seen posts that say having it enabled on a device can affect the syncing of music.

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