What gets wiped out if I sync my phone to iTunes
Sorry for starting a new thread with this. It is really a followup/clarification to another post, but that one won't let me reply/comment
In https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141 wjosten wrote:
By design, the iPhone will sync iTunes content with one computer at a time. Any attempt to sync such content with a second computer will result in ALL iTunes content being first erased from your phone & then replaced with the content from the second computer. This is a design feature and cannot be overridden. Because you replaced your computer, or hard drive, your phone will see this as a "new" computer. The iTunes content sync is one way: computer to phone. If you have photos that were synced to your phone or music ripped on your own that were not backed up, you will first have to extract them from your phone using third party software, before you do anything else,
The prompt from iTunes if very ominous. I want to clarify what it is going to wipe out.
We have two iPhones and an iPad. I don't know if either of the phones have been synced to iTunes on any of our computers. We use iCloud backup, so we have not felt the need to backup to our Windows PCs. When the iPad was first purchased, the version of iOS it had required iTunes to activate it. I think that was iOS 4. We immediately updated to iOS 5 and life was good. But that first activation was done on an old laptop that is long gone. Anything we do with iTunes and these devices these days, we want to do on my wife's newer laptop.
So, I say all that to clarify that I have no clue what system (if any) these devices are officially synched to. I just want to rip a seminar from an mp3 CD to my iPhone. Imagine my surprise when iTunes tells me my only option is for it to first wipe out my phone
I have the normal ton of pictures and a few videos I have captured on the phone. The normal ton of apps. And I recently entered the 20th century (yeah, still catching up) and purched a CD on iTunes on my phone. This is my first attempt at transfering music (really a seminar, an MP3 CD) to my phone. I have not synced any pictures to my phone from iTunes on any PC. But I have recently downloaded a couple pictures of my grandson from Facebook. Those all appear as if I took them on this phone. I also have the email client set up to access 4 different mail servers (iCloud, Gmail, AOL, work) and calendar set up to access work, Google Calendar, and iCloud. And a ton of contacts. All of that is backed up to iCloud.
So do I have anything I need to "extract ... using third party software"? Or will backup to iTunes on the PC get everything?
Is it really going to wipe out everything on my phone before transfering this one audio CD?
really disappointed at how difficult this is.
did you backed it up? with itunes or icloud backup?
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