Syncing of iPhone to MacBook

Question

i have a slight issue here.
just bought a macbook, i logged in my itunes with the macbook expecting my original stuff in itunes from my crashed pc to be with the itunes in the macbook but it isnt. i wanna sync my iphone to this itunes in my macbook but a popup says i'll lose all the stuff in my iphone coz theres nothing in my macbook itunes. how do i go about having all the music, pictures, apps and what nots of my old itunes in my crashed pc to this itunes in macbook?
kindly help. thanks..

Answer 1

iam.792347 wrote:
just bought a macbook, i logged in my itunes with the macbook expecting my original stuff in itunes from my crashed pc to be with the itunes in the macbook but it isnt.
your stuff will not magically appear just because you log into iTunes on a new computer !
i wanna sync my iphone to this itunes in my macbook but a popup says i'll lose all the stuff in my iphone coz theres nothing in my macbook itunes. how do i go about having all the music, pictures, apps and what nots of my old itunes in my crashed pc to this itunes in macbook?
the following post by Zevoneer, though slightly off-topic, says it all:
Did you back up your purchases before you you reinstalled your system? If you erased your drive then the purchases will have been erased along with everything else. If you didn't make a back-up of your purchases to restore from (as you are advised to do) then I'm sorry to say that the policy on lost purchases is that you have to pay to download them again:
"Once a Product is purchased and you receive the Product, it is your responsibility not to lose, destroy, or damage the Product, and Apple shall be without liability to you in the event of any loss, destruction, or damage." iTunes Store: Purchased content can be downloaded only once
*You could try contacting the iTunes Music Store Customer Service and you might be able to persuade them to sanction a second free download*. There have been occasional reports in the iTunes forum of this happening, however just be aware that they are not under any obligation to do so. If you click on this link you'll be able to email your query: iTMS Customer Service
If you have an iPod that still has the purchases on it the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
You might also want to check out these pages for future reference:
How to back up your media in iTunes
Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive
purchased apps can be re-downloaded free of charge. see _*How to redownload purchased apps from the App Store*_.
good luck !
JGG