I have lost half my itunes library whilst changing computers
Being completely unsavvy I lost half of my songs whilst transferring to a new laptop. The "missing" songs still appear to be on the old laptop. Should I just reconnect my iPhone 5 iOS7 to the old laptop and download again or will I just be making matters worse......?
The old laptop is an ASUS running on Vista and the new laptop an Acer Aspire with Windows 8.
pjdfrom wrote:
(Edit) PS. When you say "You simply copy that onto the new computer and then use File/Add Folder to Library to add them in as well." Would I do that by re-syncing my iPhone on the old laptop and then again on the new one?
No. You cannot use the iPhone to transfer music from one computer to another. How did you transfer the music in you previous attempt? Use that same method (such as copy onto an external drive and then paste into new computer). Once you have done that, in iTunes, use the menu at the top (which you can turn on using CTRL B), and then use File/Add Folder to Library...
Once the music is in your Library, Sync the iPhone to the new Library to add the songs to your phone.
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