HELP! new mac user & iphone-a-holic in need of advice.

Question

Hi All
My rubbish dell laptop blew-up last month, so treated myself to a new macbook.
Is there a way I can sync my old-iphone and all its content to my new mac?
Hope very welcome!
Best

Answer 1

Follow the instructions here:
http://lifehacker.com/242468/geek-to-live--how-to-move-an-itunes-library-from-a- pc-to-mac-and-back
and here:
http://www.myfirstmac.com/index.php/mac/articles/how-do-i-move-my-itunes-library -from-pc-to-mac-and-keep-my-settings-intact
Welcome to the Mac world!
When you're done with the above, do the following:
Disable auto sync under preferences(In the edit menu).
Connect your phone, do not sync.
Right-click the phone in the device pane & select backup.
Right-click the phone in the device pane again, select reset warnings.
Store>Authorize this computer.
Transfer the purchases on your phone: File>Transfer Purchases.
Put at least one contact & one event in your contact & calendar programs on your computer. They can be fake, doesn't matter. This will generate a merge or replace prompt when you do sync, select merge.(Do not sync at this point).
Then follow the instructions here for restoring from a backup, when prompted to create another backup before you restore, decline as we will use the backup created when we started:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
After you restore from your backup, this needs to be followed by a sync to restore your itunes content.
This is what's included in the backup you'll make & restore from:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766