How do I sync my iphone to a new computer without losing my songs?

I got a new computer and it wants to erase all my data in order to sync it. I tried doing home share but it won't accept my old Apple ID, I tried having Apple email me my new password so I could get back onto it but the email never sends.

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Hi, my laptop died along with its harddrive, finding it difficult to figure out how can I sync my iphone to a new computer without losing everything on my phone (iPhone 3GS).
Any help appreciated
Thanks
C

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

How do I sync my iPhone with a new computer without losing all of my data?

How do I sync my iPhone to a new computer without losing all of data?

See this user tip for the procedure: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

How do you sync you iphone to a new computer without loosing your songs or apps

How do you sync you iphone to a new computer without loosing your songs or apps

Hello CRFamily,
This can be done by transferring your library to the new computer, as detailed in the article linked below.
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Cheers,
Allen

How do I sync my iPhone to a new computer without losing all my data?

I hooked up my iPhone to my new computer and was able to transfer songs etc to my iPhone with no problems, just clicked and dragged like normal. Suddenly it wont let me do so, wont let me drag a song or anything over to my device. I noticed that the "manually manage music and video" check box was unchecked, so I clicked it and got the prompt to restore my iPhone and delete all the data on it. Obviously I clicked cancel. I have read a few other discussions about this issue but am confused and need a dummies approach please as most people seem to be referring to certain things, for example they are worried about losing their applications, or just their music....I want to be able to sync my iPhone to my new computer, without ANYTHING changing. I dont want to lose any music, apps photos, contacts, purchases....anything....
Please help. Thank you!

By design, the iphone will sync itunes content with one computer at a time. Any attempt to sync such content with a second computer will result in ALL itunes content being first erased from her phone & then replaced with the content from the second computer. This is a design feature and cannot be overridden. Because you are replacing your computer, your phone will see this computer as a "new" computer. The itunes content sync is one way: computer to phone. If you have photos that were synced to your phone or music ripped on her own that were not backed up, you will first have to extract them from your phone using third party software, before you do anything else, as Apple makes no provision to do so:
http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php
Once you've done that, do the following in the order specified:
1. Disable auto sync when an iPod/iPhone is connected under Preferences>Devices in itunes(under the edit menu if using Windows).
2. Make sure you have one contact & one event in the supported applications(Outlook, Windows Address Book) on your computer. These entries can be fake, doesn't matter, the important point is that these programs not be empty.
3. Connect her phone, iTunes running, do not sync at this point.
4. Store>Authorize this computer.
5. File>Transfer Purchases(To make sure all purchased content on your phone will be in your itunes library).
6. Right click in the device pane & select reset warnings.
7. Right click again and select backup.
8. Right click again & select restore from backup, select the backup you just made. When prompted to create another backup, decline.
9. This MUST be followed by a sync to restore your itunes content, which you select from the various tabs, You'll get a popup regarding her contacts & calendars asking to merge or replace, select merge.
You should be good to go.

How can I sync my iphone to a new computer without losing music

I have heaps of music from my old work computer on my phone. I want to sync to my computer at home now. How can I do this without losing the music and other data???

To sync to a new computer without losing your data follow the steps outlined by Ingo2711 in this post: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3801263?tstart=0. However, as pointed out in this post, music not purchased from iTunes syncs only one way: computer --> phone. (Music purchased from iTunes can always be redownloaded for free (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519). You will have to purchase 3rd party software in order to transfer non-purchased music from your phone to your computer, such as Touch Copy.

How do I sync my iphone to a new computer without losing folders?

I've found several "techniques" that attempt to solve this problem, but none of them work 100%.
http://www.justinmontgomery.com/sync-ios-device-to-a-new-computer-you-are-screwe d
I upgraded from a 3 year old HP laptop to a new MacBook Pro. I transfered my entire library (100GB or so with music, videos and apps) to the new Mac before trying to sync anything. When I moved/synced my iPad from the HP to the Mac, I lost all my folders, photos and app data, such as saved games etc. I "Transfered Purchases", then backed up the iPad and restored from that backup, but still lost most of the data (and spent the next few hours re-organizing apps into folders.)
I'm glad I didn't try it on my iPhone first because the issue would have been much worse.
I can't find ANYTHING in the Apple support docs that offers a reasonable way to move ALL my data to the new Mac. Does anyone know of a way to do this without losing data? I found a video that shows how to trick the iTunes Library files into making it work, but it's from PC to PC and I doubt it would work on the Mac.
Please, Apple, fix this or make it easier.
Thanks,
J

Not simple enough. Please read the original concern.
The issue is not "getting music to the new machine" or "authorizing the new machine" or "transferring purchases from an idevice". The issue is that after doing all those things, even creating a backup using the new iTunes/Mac, syncing my device with the new library erases all the app data from the iPhone, as well as folder structure and page layout. Music is expendable in this situation as it's just a matter of moving the files around. (Which I did before I ever started this exercise.)
The problem is that everything from email accounts to folders are lost when I sync the device with a new computer. I tried this on my iPad first and spent a good deal of time re-arranging everything and getting all the data back. The pictures are just gone. Good thing I backed them up on the old PC.
It won't be as simple on my iPhone as I have a ton of stuff on it and can't afford to lose anything. Some of the data is gave saves and such, but other things are more important. And I don't want to lose those game saves either.

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My wife's iphone was originally synced to my old mac. Now she wants me to add some music from a cd to her iphone and I can't figure out a way to do it without erasing what is already on there. How can I add the additional tracks to her phone without losing the rest of her content?

It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer.
Use your backup copy of your computer to put everything on the new one.
The iphone is not a backup/storage device. It simply mirrors the selected content of the computer to which it is synced. Syncing to anophter computer will erase the current content and replace with content from the new computer.

How do I Sync my iPhone with my new computer without losing all of my songs already on the iPhone?

I recently got a new MacBook Pro and I want to be able to sync my iPhone with my new iTunes library without running the risk of losing all the music that I already have on my iPhone.

See wjosten's post here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/13356770#13356770.

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my laptop was stolen and i've recently replaced it. now when i try to sync my iphone with the new laptop, it gives me messages saying that it will replace what's on the iphone by whatever it currently has on the itunes library. i can't have this happen because i have several photos that were uploaded to my iphone via the old laptop. i'd like to find a way to download the pictures and then place them back in my itunes library for sync in the future. at the very least, just be able to download them off my iphone to back them up. please help!

There is no way to get pictures off the phone or to move them from folders to the camera roll. The format on the phone is proprietary, so even if you could get them off you couldn't use them. Having said that, search the Internet; there are some apps that can access some files on the iPhone without hacking it. There may be one that can get the photos off. The only other option is to email them to yourself. This will reduce the resolution, however.
I'm afraid you have pointed out the importance of frequent computer backups.

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Copy everything from your old computer, or your backup copy of your old computer, to your new one.

How do I sync my iPhone to my new computer without losing App data?

Okay, I just recently got a black 13" MacBook & did a clean install of everything on it. I also just updated my iPhone 3G to iOS4, which erased all my music but left my apps & other data in place. When I click the "manually manage" checkbox in the summary tab for the phone & click Apply, I get the error message "The iPhone " " is synced with another iTunes library. Do you want to erase this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library? Well of course not! I have already authorized the account on the new computer & transferred purchases from the phone. My question is, if I go ahead & do this, will all my apps be reset as if they were brand new? I know it sounds silly, but I have HOURS invested into my Angry Birds game & would rather live without music on the phone than lose that game's progress. Obviously, I shouldn't have to choose, it should "just work"....... Where do I go from here? My old computer is long gone but I do still have a Time Machine backup of it on an external drive if I need to pull a file from the old iTunes folder or anything (which I hope not because I already spent hours sorting through & figuring out what I wanted to add to my new computer's library). Any help on this would be much appreciated!

Any luck? I have this exact problem, only I prob have days invested in angry birds LOL. Scares the poop out of me to see that warning.

How do you sync an iphone to a new computer without losing ANYTHING?

I know this sort of topic has been discussed a bit and I have searched quite extensively but I would REALLY appreciate any of you gurus out there to give this a quick read. I don't like to thread hijack and I never got all my concerns addressed from reading other threads so I figured I would make my own.
Ok, so I have looked around this forum, called Apple support and have searched google but have not quite found all the answers I am looking for so I decided to just register and make a post.
I have an HP desktop and now I have an HP laptop that I wish to make the new "home" to my iphone4. I did a recent backup of all my apps, music, and photos to my desktop but I have never used any program to sync notes,email,calendar etc. as I don't use Outlook or any of the options they have on the dropdown boxes. My new laptop and my desktop are both on the same version of itunes and I have authorized my new laptop and logged in to my itunes account. Also, my phone is not jailbroken so everything on it is legit. I do remember reading something that purchases only transfer if you bought them through itunes via a computer? All my Apps and music purchases were done strictly through iphone4.
So here are my concerns with the first sync to the new laptop:
1)What happens with the Apps? Do they get removed and restored or do they just copy from the phone to itunes? I can't just restore from itunes as I have several apps that I really like that happen to be discontinued and no longer available through the app store. Also, what happens to the game saves and other data within all the appps? And if it is going to restore these apps, I can only imagine it would give me whatever the latest version of them is? I have many apps I refused to update due to developers either ruining them or downgrading what they offer. For example, Pandora. I still use the non multitasking version because it doesn't have those annoying voice commercials.
2) What am I to do about the notes, mail, contacts, texts, since I don't use the programs itunes offers to sync to? Should I sign up for MobileMe? Or would that just complicate things? I pretty much just use Hotmail.
3) Music. What happens to it? I only have a handful of cd's and maybe two albums I purchased via phone through itunes. If my music gets wiped I can always put the cd's back I am just worried about the two albums I bought through the phone using itunes.
4) Photos I backed up into a folder on the desktop so do I just copy that onto a flash drive and transfer it or will the photos just sync to the new laptop? They are all on the camera roll I don't have any other folders or albums on the phone.
Thanks so much to anyone out there who is willing to help me out as I did search before asking and only made this post as a last resort.
If it helps, old desktop uses Windows XP and new laptop uses Windows 7 64 bit.

Welcome to the discussions,
a manual backup should help to transfer your data and apps.
Disable autosync in itunes, connect your phone, right click on it in the device list and choose backup. iTunes will backup your phone without syncing and save data, pictures taken with the phone and settings to the new itunes library.
See what's included in this backup here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
After that, transfer your purchases the same way by choosing "transfer purchases", to copy all apps and bought media from the Store to your computer.
Set up at least one contact and event on your computer to be able the merge your calendars and contacts after your phone got wiped during the first sync.
The rest of the data can be restored again from the manual backup you made before.
Music is one way only, from the computer to your device, unless you bought the songs in itunes and transferred your purchases.
There is 3rd party software out there, but not supported by Apple, see this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2013615&tstart=0
Restoring: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
Apps can be downloaded again for free, in case you missed some: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

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how can i sync my iphone to a new computer without it deleting eveything off of my phone?

Migrate the iTunes library the phone is sync-ed to, to the new computer.
Wouldn't you have done that anyway?

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look here:
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