Synching iPhone 3G to two computers

What's your experience about synching the iPhone to two different computers, particularly in my case it will be a mac and a pc. Has anybody had any problems with that? I'm still waiting for my iPhone, but I thought I'd think ahead. Thanks for your input.

i have 2 macs, one for work and one for home, and everytime i synch my calendar with my work one, it deletes my movies (which aren't itunes bought, as well as music. How do i synch to two computers without losing the content i clearly own but which is only on my home computer? Any advice greatly appreciated.

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I have two computers, my desktop has much more music on it, but my laptop is 10 times faster. I originally sync'd my iphone 4s with the desktop to try and keep the hard drive on the laptop from bogging down. My desktop is on it's way out and I'm trying to sync with the laptop but itunes won't let me. When I go into my iphone on the computer I check off to manual manage music and when I hit apply it tells me that the iphone can only be sync'd to one computer and requires the contents of the phone being deleted. Is there anyway around this or am I going to have to delete everything and go through my laptop?

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Can anyone tell me..I now have two computers authorized under my one account of itunes I added my work PC today). My iphone 3G has only been synced with my home computer. When I sync to my work computer now, will my library transfer to itunes at work? I want to make sure I can have the SAME library on both computers, under the ONE itunes account. Again, I already authorized the second (work) computer. Thanks!!

Depending on how large it is, just copy what you don't have on your laptop from your desktop mac via a thumb drive or a portable hard drive. Go to your home folder>music>itunes>itunes_music and you'll see all your music (assuming you've been using the "keep library organized" setting at its default). Copy to thumb drive. Stick thumb drive in your laptop, launch itunes, choose File>AddtoLibrary and point to your thumbdrive music. Watch it bring in all the tunes.

HT1386 This does not work as advertized. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. I have had limited luck with three iphones, ipads and two computers. Is there a way to set this so it works?

Is there a way to configure sync over wifi in itunes that works. I have done a bunch of reading and it seems many people are having issues making this work. My experience is that it sometimes works, and sometimes does not.
I have had limited sucess with three different iphones, ipads, and two different computers and two different wireless networks.
Same poor sucess as others..
What is advertized by apple does not work 100% of the time. Is there a fix coming for this.

shooternz wrote:
Here is the solution: Slow down. Give your project some love. Smell the roses.
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Then it would not be a default...it would be an option and you already have that option.
Semantics aside, I would love to be able to have it at least default to whatever option was last chosen. Or, perhaps I shouldn't use the word default again...I'd love it to simply remember my preferred setting. That's all.

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I had the iPod touch and sold it in anticipation of the iPhone. On the iTouch you could sync it perfectly with two machines even three or four.
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Actually I think we need to wait on an update from iTunes to update its compatability with the new iPhone software. They usually release a new version of iTunes with the iOS. So I hope to see an update from apple by the end of the week or maybe even today.
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Hi all,
I have itunes on 2 different computers - one on a desktop which is the home's media pc and has all the music and films on it.
I also have it on my laptop and this is the machine my iPhone currently syncs with as it hold my contacts, calendar, apps, ringtones etc.
Is there any way that I can put some of my music on my iPhone without physically having to copy the tracks to the hard drive of my laptop?
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It doesn't work, as that article says:
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You will need to "migrate" the itunes data from the Mac to the PC.
Read this great article for some hints on someone else did this very thing:
http://joshmccarty.com/2011/01/transfer-itunes-library-and-iphone-data-from-mac- to-pc/
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Home PC - MacBook Pro
Work PC - Windows
both running iTunes 7.7
My music is on my home Mac and I manually create playlists, add music etc.
With my 3G Nano, I can connect and listen to songs on my iPod from my work PC. I can't seem to do this with my iPhone - my PC sees the iPhone but all of the music is greyed out and cannot be selected.
Is it a limitation of the iPhone that I cannot use it with two computers in this way, or is it a configuration issue?
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Actually, there are several articles on the web about the fact that you CAN
synch the itunes with two computers. Music, Video, and Ringtones can be done from one computer, and Mail, Contacts, etc. can be done from a second computer.
Just do a Yahoo search on "synching iPhone with two computers."
If you are trying to do music from two computers, you are right, that will not work. There is a program, which I think the Yahoo search above will also uncover that allows you to do a "swap," where you can have the songs from one computer show up on the iPhone, and when you swap, the songs from the other computer show up. I am not sure if this utility survived the upgrage to version 2.0 of the softweare.
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