Dead laptop - new itunes
Hi
I killed my laptop and had to buy a new one - so itunes on the new one is empty and my phone is full of music and photos that the new itunes wants to wipe. How do I get the music and photos apps etc from my phone onto the new itunes ? Or can I rescue the old itunes somehow ( not from the laptop - its properly dead)
Thanks fort any help !
Gary
Some IT guy.
Depending how far you want to go to preserve everything.
The keep everything and spend a bit of money way:
Depending on the type of HDD you have you can get a connector that plugs directly into the HDD and the other end plugs into a USB slot. The computer will recognise it as a normal drive then you just copy all the iTunes stuff back to your main computer.
Or alternatively you could use what you have on your backup drive and copy that to the main iTunes folder.
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