I have an iPhone that was set up as a backup of another phone. I want to sync it with my current library; am afraid of losing synced contacts. Will I? Can I prevent this?

The older phone in question was a work phone that was set up by the owner and then distributed to employees for use. I have a new phone that will be for personal use that I have backed up from the work phone;mainly for the contacts. I want to sync the new phone with my personal library, and I go to do so and get the infamous "erase and sync" message. Will this erase they synced contacts if I do this? (Contacts are what are most important in this case; there is no music stored, for the backup had no music.) If it does, can I prevent this from happening without having to manually replace the contacts?

You did not restore the new iPhone.
The first time a new iPhone is connected to iTunes on a computer that is used to sync with another iPhone or iOS device or that was used to backup another iPhone or iOS devide, you are prompted to transfer the backup for the other iPhone or iOS device, or set up the new iPhone as a new iPhone.
Since the old iPhone was synced with iTunes on a different computer, all iTunes content on the new iPhone (which is none at the present time) will be erased first.
The warning message should indicate all iTunes content will be erased from the iPhone, which is iTunes content only.
If you are syncing contacts with a supported address book app on this computer and the supported address book app on this computer includes any contacts, you will be provided a merge prompt for the contacts, which you want to select. Otherwise the contacts on the iPhone will be replaced with the contacts in the address book app on the computer with the first sync.

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You did not restore the new iPhone.
The first time a new iPhone is connected to iTunes on a computer that is used to sync with another iPhone or iOS device or that was used to backup another iPhone or iOS devide, you are prompted to transfer the backup for the other iPhone or iOS device, or set up the new iPhone as a new iPhone.
Since the old iPhone was synced with iTunes on a different computer, all iTunes content on the new iPhone (which is none at the present time) will be erased first.
The warning message should indicate all iTunes content will be erased from the iPhone, which is iTunes content only.
If you are syncing contacts with a supported address book app on this computer and the supported address book app on this computer includes any contacts, you will be provided a merge prompt for the contacts, which you want to select. Otherwise the contacts on the iPhone will be replaced with the contacts in the address book app on the computer with the first sync.

I have found my old ipod (which was linked to itunes on a computer gone years ago w/ an itunes act I dont remembe). Currently the songs are visible and I can play them on itunes but I cannot sync them into my current library. How do I sync both systems?

I have tried to: sync the songs, organize the library and consolidate files, copy and paste songs
Nothing has worked so far.
Also when my ipod comes up in my computer, the songs are not present there.
Any help is much appreciated.

This "original file cannot be found" thing happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes .
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HT4847 do you know if i delete my old iphone backup on icloud, will it delete everything off my iphone that was put on from the backup?

I want more space, and i had recently got a new iphone and i backed it up with icloud so i have all my important info... if i delete the old back up from november, will it delete what i had just put on my phone off my phone itself?

No. It will only permanently delete the backup from your iCloud account. It won't do anything to the data on your phone.

HT4623 dear concerned kindly be informed that I have an iphone that we reset and the iTunes backup is corrupted. Is it possible to restore the contacts from the device?

Dear experts,
Kindly could you advise back if it's possibel to recover contact list from an iPhone device that has been reset?
please note that the iTunes backup file is corrupted and itunes is treating the iPhone as new device.
thank you

unless you had them synced with icloud or some other email account, very unlikely

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Contact HP directly, this is a user to user forum.
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http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/contact_us.html
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http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/wwcontact_us.html

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I see. Apple's documentation on what is included in the iCloud backup doesn't explicitly say that it contains voicemails, but that doesn't mean it does not. You would just have to try restoring the backup to find out.
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If this does not recover your voicemails, you can check to see if you have an older iTunes backup that may contain them. Available backups are shown in iTunes Preferences>Devices on the Backups list.
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What can i do? i forgot my password (iCloud) and i don't know the security questions also, the email that was set up with that account was deleted a long time ago, so i cannot update my applications on my iphone 4S.... THANK YOU!!!!

URGENT What can i do? i forgot my password (iCloud) and i don't know the security questions also, the email that was set up with that account was deleted a long time ago, so i cannot update my applications on my iphone 4S.... THANK YOU!!!!

Try the methods described here in this link: Apple ID: All about Apple ID security questions
If neither your recovery email works nor do you know the answers to the security questions, you need to give Apple Support a call - only they will be able to help you. See this webpage on how to contact Apple Support in your country: There are either telephone numbers given or an email form:
Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security
Explain, that you need help with an account security problem.
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You can use separate AppleIDs for iCloud, iMessage and iTunes - you just need to create unique AppleIDs for the iCloud accounts if syncing contacts that way (you will need an email address that is not already registered as an AppleID though to get another AppleID).
Apps are a different matter in that purchases are tied to the AppleID used to log in to the store to make the purchase. So you can create another AppleID for iTunes as well and use different ones on the different phones, but any apps you have already purchased with your existing AppleID are permanently tied to that AppleID.
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Hello, peppertwist.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
When receiving the not enough space alert, he is the best article to go through.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1503
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I have an iPhone that was set up as a backup of another phone. I want to sync it with my current library; am afraid of losing synced contacts. Will I? Can I prevent this?

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