Cant manually manage music with itunes
On my home computer I have my itunes configured so that I can manage my music manually and it works fine. Previously it was synced with my home computer but I changed that.
On my work computer itunes still thinks that my iphone is synced with another computer and I cant change the option to "manually manage" and it promptly offers to erase my music from the phone. What gives?
Sorry, but where i can find the "summary" tab? when i click in the ipod icon there are two visiable tabs: Settings and Contents. I´m using WinXP Pro with Itunes 7.4.2
any tips?
Thanks
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