I've lost almost all my music!!
I just got a brand new computer and was trying to sync my music on my iphone with my new pc. as i tried to sync it my entire iPod was erased!! please help i am so bummed! and computer illiterate!! thankyou sooo much!
-VS
Iphone will sync with ONE computer/library at a time.
If you sync to a different machine then it will erase the current content from the iphone and replace with content from the new machine. This is the way iphone is designed.
You should always keep a back up of important info/music/pics on an external source.
What you should do is move your itunes library from the old computer to the new one, then sync iphone.
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