Backup and Syncing Question

My iPod touch was originally synced with my iMac, but it is now synced with my pc. My music, movies and all of that is fine, but my apps were not synced. How can I have my apps synced with the pc, BUT, I don't want to loose any data from my apps. Can I restore from the iTunes backup after the sync wipes the apps, or is there a third party program I can use to make a backup? Thanks.

connect the iPod to the iMac and make one final sync and backup. The backup is the first step of a sync. Then move a copy of the iPod backup file to the PC. The files are located here:
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
Windows Vista and Windows 7: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
Connect the iPod to the PC and transfer iTunes purchases to the computer by:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer
- Then restore the iPod from the backup you just moved to the PC. Then sync as necessary.

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So what has happened after step 1, then after step 2, and so forth?
I would appreciate if only those who knows exactly what happens will list it in their reply.
Please don't tell me to google the question, or point me to a link. I tried all those steps, and I could not find the answer.
If you can't tell me precisely what happens after each step of a sync, please don't reply.

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Good afternoon
I am wondering if I can pick people's brains here if that's not too much trouble.
I have recently implemented an Exchange 2013 environment with 3 servers (two multi-role CAS & MBX physical machines, and one further virtual CAS server). Everything is working correctly and mail-flow is fine. My question relates to backup and restoration
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Backup and sync iPhone with broken screen

I recently dropped my iPhone 5s and broke the display. The phone itself is fine; I can still hear it receive text messages and emails but the screen iself is blacked out. I am assuming that it is a hardware problem. Anyway, my friend tried to reset by pressing the home and power button. Now, whenever I plug the phone into a charger or my computer, the phone emits an incessant beeping noise every 5 seconds. What is this noise? And also, I can no longer use features on my phone like Siri and such after my friend tried to reset the phone. Is my phone broken? I cannot really tell if this is a problem that can be fixed with a new screen or if there is something worse wrong with my phone.
Additionally, I have tried to backup my phone by connecting to my computer but it doesn't allow a backup to take place because it needs a passcode to be entered on the phone itself which, of course, is impossible since my display is broken. However, I was able to synchronize my phone to my computer. My question is that, if I get a completely new phone, can I restore to a previous backup and then synchronize to the most recent synchronization? Also, if you have any knowledge on the other questions, I would greatly appreciate some information. Thanks!

convertedluddite wrote:
Hello,
I apologise if this is a really stupid question.
I last backed up my phone a few weeks ago, carried on taking pictures with it etc, and then dropped it, breaking the screen which turned black with a single white line down the middle.
I can receive calls by guessing where to swipe so it is sort of working.
A new iPhone is in the post, but I can't back this phone up because I get the following message when I try:
"iTunes could not back up the iPhone because it is locked with a passcode. You must enter your passcode on the iPhone before it can be backed up."
I have been searching the web, but can't find a way to unlock the phone.
So (unless anyone has a genius idea, in which case I will love them forever), what will I lose if I don't sync?
I don't think I should lose the photos I took since my last sync, since Photostream should take care of that, no?
Many thanks, C
There is no way for you to backup with a broken screen.
You will lose whatever wasn't backup.

Online storage/backup and Sync to several systems - Elements 10

I have paid my money and eagerly await arrival of Elements 10 with the postman
I was enthused to buy it for some of the editing features which are better than v7 i had.
I was even more excited to know all my woes and hates of Google Picasa online storage and syncing were going away!!!!!
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finally I want to be able to 'share' some albums/photos to the rellies and Facebook
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ps. i had thought to try registering my new software with a new email address and giving US address etc.......... would that get me the extras/

stevew218 a écrit:
Ah... as per my 1st post, I am a new user to Elements. Apologies, I have been approaching this from the wrong direction! I have checked back on my original XP disk and Elements catalog, and it appears that when I set up the original catalog against my existing pics it did not include any duplicate files, therefore the Backup\Restore is correct, it is the original cataloging of my pictures that did not work as expected. Do I have to do anything specific to get the catalog to include duplicate file names?
Sorry for the misdirection
Steve
Steve,
The basic rule of database management is to forbid duplicates.
In the case of the Organizer, that would mean changing one of the two above criteria (date daken or file size in kB). That would be possible outside of the Organizer by using external tools, but the problem is that you don't know which files are concerned...
Now that you have restored your catalog in your new catalog, a theoretical solution would be to get back to the old catalog, and use the organizer to delete all the files in the catalog. The remaining ones would be the duplicates. Creating a new empy catalog and importing the remaining files would recover all duplicates. You could then restore on the new PC.
There are still two problems:
- You can't delete a big number of files at the same time? You'd have to delete by small batches
- You'll have all your duplicates in your new PC, but you still won't be able to include them in the main catalog even you have now a special catalog with only the duplicates.
So, the final question may be : why do you want to keep duplicates? You can examine the duplicates catalog and see if they are really necessary. Maybe you can live with two different catalogs.

IPhone synced with another library..."Erase and Sync" question

I helped someone transfer from an older iPhone to an iPhone 6 and did an encrypted backup on my laptop and then restored that backup to their new phone.
When they took the phone home and tried to sync their library with it they got the following message:
"The iPhone ... is synced with another iTunes library on ... Do you want to erase this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library?"
I understand what iTunes is referring to but what does "Erase and Sync" actually do? Does it just erase any media i.e., songs, apps and videos and then resyncs them from the new library or does it completely wipe the phone and start from scratch?
Thanks...

When you say erased, you mean almost like a restore is done to factory settings instead of just the media being erased?
I ask because the older phone is no longer available and they want to preserve their photos, etc.
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Backup and Sync

I sync my iPhone with two computers:
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The home machine, but you'll need to sync to both to reload your full content in any case. The backup includes, +"...mail settings, text messages, notes, call history, contact favorites, sound settings, widget settings, certain network settings, and other preferences including settings and data from third-party applications purchased from the App Store."+ It doesn't include iTunes-managed synced content (music, calendars, etc.).
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
The reason I'd recommend the home computer is that 3rd party app data is part of the backup, and you'd probably want that restored.

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OK so annoyingly I formated my hardrive on my pc and reinstalled everything. Now I plug my iphone in to my PC and it upon clicking on Sync it says it must erase and sync as the iPhone was syned with another computer.... hmmmm
So I don't mind losing my music and apps as there now on the reformatted PC anyway but I dont want to lose my text messages..
I presume if I click on erase and sync I wll lose my messages?
Can I erase and sync and then if all messages are gone reinstall a backup and iTunes will be happy?
Cheers, Ben
PS I did manage to backup my iphone backups and have put them back on the PC. iTunes does see the previous backups..

In regards to iTunes content, an iPhone can be synced or manually managed with an iTunes library on a single computer only, and photos can be transferred from a single computer only.
When transferring iTunes content and photos from another computer, all iTunes content and photos transferred from a different computer will be erased from the Phone first.
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