Backing up music for all computers linked to one itunes account

Okay. So I have four computers that share music on itunes. When I back-up my music on my computer, I am wondering if the other computers libraries get backed up at the same time. The reason I ask is because there is no option in itunes to back-up any of the other computers. So, say I go to my daughter's computer, open itunes and look for the back-up option. It is not listed. This makes me wonder if everytime I back up my library, I am also backing up hers.
Confused!
Using Windows Vista

get a sufficiently sized external HD and create four partitions, one for each computer. copy the entire iTunes folder (not just the iTunes music or media folder) to their respective partition. use SyncToy on each machine to keep both folders in sync.
SyncToy
SyncToy 2.1 is a free application that synchronizes files and folders between locations. Typical uses include sharing files, such as photos, with other computers and creating backup copies of files and folders.

Similar Messages

  • HT5616 I have multiple phones and iPads and all are linked to one iCloud account and one iTunes Account.  I want to keep the same iTunes Account so I can share music, etc., however, I want each device to have its own iCloud account.  How do I do this?

    I have multiple phones and iPads and all are linked to one iCloud account and one iTunes Account.  I want to keep the same iTunes Account so I can share music, etc., however, I want each device to have its own iCloud account.  Any help on how I can I do this?

    You'll need to create an Apple ID for each device. Use the new Apple ID for FaceTime, iMessage and iCloud on the device. Use the original Apple ID for Settings>iTunes & App Store.

  • Can I have two iPads with two different credit cards linked to one iTunes account?

    Can I have two iPads with two different credit cards linked to one iTunes account?

    It is still not possible to have two credit cards with your iTunes store account. I've just had a discussion with an Apple representative who suggested I give feedback to Apple about this. The more we are, Apple might listen to us in the end.
    This is the link
    http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
    Please feel free to use or modify what I wrote there:
    I’m surprised as are many other people who have the same issue (can see this in many forum threads) that Apple don’t give us the possibility to have at least 2 credit cards with one AppleID/account like most other vendors do (even much smaller than Apple). This certainly forces people to buy some stuff elsewhere that they otherwise would have purchased from Apple (for example books) or restrain from buying things they would have bought if they had a choice to use a second Credit Card.
    Not having this option puts me in a precarious situation since it would not be OK to buy just anything with the Credit Card that is tied to my business (and in many cases like mine the business is only one person, the VAT No being the same as my social security No).
    Sole traders need an option too.
    Greetings
    Anna

  • How can my 7yr old have her own iTunes account to sync to her iPod, when our only other home computers are all already linked into other iTunes accounts and other iPods?

    My husband, my 13yr old, and myself all have our own computers, with our own iTunes accounts which sync up to our own iPods. But now my 7yr old has her iPod (nano) and wants to put her own songs on it, but we aren't sure how to go about doing that since each computer already only recognizes our own iPods. Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated!...Thanks!

    check out method one in this support article: How to use multiple iPods, iPads, or iPhones with one computer.

  • Downloading music and videos from more than one iTunes account

    We have ipads for our two granddaughters and each has an itunes account and we give them allowances and gifts now and then to buy videos music and apps.
    They have each bought more stuff than they can fit on their ipad.  I bought an external hard drive from Seagate to which I can store their music and videos. They can access this drive and the content on it through a LAN the drive sets up so their ipads can communicate with it when they are away from a network and have no access to iCloud.
    When I logged into one of their accounts to download content, I got a message that said my computer was registered to a specific itunes account and that if I downloaded content from another account I would not be able to download any content from any other account for 90 days.
    What gives.  This would mean if one of them downloaded their content, the other wouldn't be able to download anything for 90 days and vice versa.  This makes no sense.
    What am I doing wrong and how do I deal with this situation?
    I spoke with an Applecare person about this and they said yeah, this is the way it is set up.  I asked "Why?" because it didn't make any sense and they tried to put me through to an iTunes "specialist" to explain it.  I got the "specialist" but he had no idea what I was talking about and went to find out what was going on.  He took so long to try to find out that I ended up losing the connection.  Thought I would ask this forum.
    Can anyone help me.  This is a major glitch I don't know how to deal with.
    Thanks,
    --Kenoli

    Julian
    I am a bit confused and have heard different things from different second tier Apple support folks.
    When you and your wife do as you describe are you actually downloading your content to your computer or just accessing it from Apple's servers via your iTunes software? 
    What I am trying to do is to download it from the server to my computer.  You do this from within the iTunes store by clicking in the little iClound icon next to the item or telling the store to download all of it.
    When I do this from one account, I am locked out of doing it from any other account for 90 days.
    I'm looking forward to your account as I have Apple "experts" seem pretty much split 50-50 as to whether this is supposed to happen.  So far, my experience is that on a given computer, no matter how many user accounts you have, if you download content from an iTunes account, content cannot be downloaded on that computer frm any other iTunes account for 90 days.
    This, of course is not a problem if you are logged onto the internet.  However, if you are not logged onto the internet, you cannot listen to any music you have not downloaded.
    It is the second condition for my two grandaughters that I am trying to address.
    Thanks,
    --Kenoli

  • Two computers/users. One iTunes account. Different question.

    My husband and I share an iTunes account but 90% of the tunes in each of our libraries are specific to our own computers and we'd like to keep it that way. I set up iTunes match via mine, if I set it up on his (using the same ITunes store account) will the combined tunes show up on both computers? We wouldn't want that. They can live together in the Cloud, but I'd like the iTunes libraries to stay the same/

    By logging into the same iTunes account and enabling iTunes Match the music from both computers will be visible on both. However, I think that you can hide the items in the cloud by pulling down View > Hide Cloud Purchases. I'm not sure if that menu command applies to iTunes Match, though.

  • I currently have and Iphone and Ipad on one Itunes account. My work is providing me with another work Ipad to link with my Iphone.  Do I need to create another account to keep things seperate?

    I currently have a personal iPad and an iPhone linked to one iTune account. My employeer is providing me with a work iPad to use and this will be linked to my iPhone, should I create a second account for the work iPad?

    Existing apps and content would not be automatically downloaded. You'd have to download apps and music manually, or sync them from a computer.  New purchases would be automatically downloaded if you set the iPad to do that. Otherwise, again, you'd have to manually download or sync from iTunes.
    Regards.

  • HT1449 how do you move all music from two computers into one itunes account?

    How do you move all music from two computers into one itunes account?

    An "iTunes account" is an online account you use for buying music, like a bank account.  An iTunes collection is the media you see when you open iTunes. Which do you mean?
    If it is two computers, it would also help to know where these are located. Are they on the same local network? If they are, try Home Sharing (and you have control of both and you aren't just trying to get music fro your computer to your friend's computer in another state).  If they are not, you'll have to use an external hard drive or flash drive.
    Is this on a PC? Your computer information says Windows but you posted this in the iTunes for Mac forum.

  • I have multiple computers set up on homesharing under one itunes account. Can I use face time on all of them or do i need seperate accounts for each?

    I have multiple computers set up on homesharing under one itunes account. Can I use face time on all of them or do i need seperate accounts for each?

    I'd suggest you consider a cloud-based file sharing service such as Dropbox for this sort of use. iOS is not designed to be synched with more than one iTunes library at a time, so attempting to use it as you describe, connecting a single iPad to multiple computers, almost certainly won't work as you intend and is likely to cause nothing but headaches.
    Regads.

  • HT204053 My husband and I share music in one itunes account for  both of our iphones. We just got the new iphone 5s's and iin  ttryinngto back up our old phones I have realized we SHARE one icloud as well. Can I create him a new icloud for  pictures, cont

    My husband and I share music in one itunes account for  both of our iphones. We just got the new iphone 5s's and iin  ttryinngto back up our old phones I have realized we SHARE one icloud as well. Can I create him a new icloud for  pictures, contacts etc

    You can have one icloud account and a different itunes account on the phone. I have my icloud account and a shared itunes account. He does not have to use the new icloud account as is ID in itunes and app store. He can keep using the old one.

  • HT1203 Can I share one iTunes account for my iPad and two I phones? If so, how can I get the purchased apps and music on all three devices? Do I need a home computer,

    Can I share one iTunes account for my iPad and two I phones? If so, how can I get the purchased apps and music on all three devices? How do I sync all the devices to have the same music and apps?

    You can set up an iCloud account on each one (the SAME iCloud account using the same AppleID on each) and then sync via iCloud.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5262\
    However, an iCloud backup nor sync contains purchased content - that is available for redownload from the iTunes and App stores (so no need to waste iCloud space storing it for you).
    So, for purchased content, you will have to download it on each device - just use the same AppleID and download each item on each device.
    Without a computer to aid the sync'ing, downloading the purchased content on each device is the only way.
    P.S  audiobooks cannot be re-downloaded once purchased (all other content can be), so without a computer to save, store and move the audiobook files around, you will only be able to put those on one device - the one you first purchase it on.

  • I turned iCloud back up off for all the games on my iPad, now i want to turn it back on but, now they have all disapeared from my apps in iCloud, how do i turn the back up on those specific apps back on?

    i turned iCloud back up off for all the games on my iPad, now i want to turn it back on but, now they have all disappeared from my apps in iCloud, how do i turn the back up on those specific apps back on?
    I'm trying to get them to transfer to another iPad for my kid.

    atoo2 wrote:
    I just did the IOS8 update on my Ipad retina which had 300  photos it asked me to do an iCloud back up which i did but it deleted all my previous photos and now i only have recent photos how do i get back all my old photos? It said befor that my icloud was out of storage but i didnt know it didnt have my old photos, they arnt back up on itunes either is there any way I can get them back?
    Please see the bold.  If you're out of icloud storage, then you won't be able to backup to icloud unless you purchase more storage, but yet you said you backup to icloud.
    If you really did backup to icloud no data would be loss - sounds to me that it didn't backup since you had no more free icloud storage space.
    iCloud: iCloud storage and backup overview

  • I just purchased 2 new iPhones for my wife and I and set them up. We want to give the old phones to our kids, with the ability to share all the songs in my iTunes account. How do I want to give new names so our old phones sync with our kids names?

    Sorry for the long intro question.  I just bought a new iPhone 5S for me and a new 5C for my wife.
    We want to give our kids my old 4S and my wife's old 4.  We backed up our old phones and restored
    our info to our new ones, but when we connect our old phones, they still show all our songs and iTunes
    settings on them (along with the same names as our new ones).
    We want to set up our old iPhones for our kids to be able to have their own names on theirs so that
    when we connect to my iTunes computer, it sees each phone accordingly, and has only the songs
    that they select (whereas I want to keep ALL my songs in my iTunes account on mine, not just some).
    How do I do this?

    You are most welcome
    Each post should have the text "this helped me" or "this solved my question," or something similar. Just click on whichever one applies to that particular post!
    This tutorial has more info.
    ~Lyssa

  • Hide views in MM01 for all material type in one time

    Hi,
    I have a requirement to hide the views for all material type at at time.
    i tried with OMS2 , it is allowing me to do for one matrial type.
    could any one tell me how to hide the views for all material type in one short.
    Thanks in adv..

    Hi Rakesh,
    Up to my knowledge it is not possible to do view setting for all material type in one shot simply because it is material type dependent.
    If trying to change fields in material master then use OMS9. This also material type linked to field reference group. And we can change the setting of field selection group in one shot. This will affect the material types linked to it.
    Hope it helps
    sBk

  • Two separate iPhones got merged into one iTunes account. How to separate them. We are sharing all of each other's contacts at this time. Thanks for your help.

    Two separate iPhones got merged into one iTunes account. How can I separate them in iTunes???????. We are sharing all of each other's contacts at this time. Thanks for your help.

    The reason you are receiving each other's text messages is because you are both using the same Apple ID for iMessage.  To prevent this you need to use different IDs.  (Note: you can still share the same ID for iTunes.)  On one of the phones, go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive, tap the ID, sign out, then sign back in with a separate ID.
    To migrate your 3GS to a new iCloud account, start by saving any photo stream photos that you want to keep on the phone to your camera roll.  To do this, open the my photo stream album, tap Edit, tap the photos, tap Share, tap Save to Camera Roll.  Next, if you have any notes that you are syncing with iCloud that you want to keep, you'll need to email these to yourself so they can be recreated after moving to the new account.
    Once this is done, go to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account.  (This will only delete the account from this phone, not from iCloud.  The phone that will be keeping the account will not be effected by this.)  When prompted about what to do with the iCloud data, choose Keep On My iPhone.  Next, sign back in with a different Apple ID to create the new account, turn iCloud data syncing preferences and when prompted about merging with iCloud, choose Merge.  This will upload the data to the new account.
    Finally, if you have merged data in the two accounts that you want to separate you will have to go to icloud.com from your computer, sign into each iCloud account separately and manually delete the data you don't want from each account.

Maybe you are looking for