I want itunes on my computer aswell as my laptop
Hello. Heres a simple one for you. But i need some advice before i do it please.
Basically, i have latest itunes on my desktop that caters for my iphone 4, ipad and ipod touch.
I've just got a new laptop and have installed latest itunes onto it.
I havent yet connected any of my 3 apple devices to itunes on the laptop but what i want to know is........ What will happen when i do connect my devices to itunes on my laptop, bearing in mind that upto now, i have been using my desktop for all connectivity with my devices.
Thankyou
Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
*Sync iPod/iPad/iPhone with two computers*
Although it isn't possible to sync an Apple device with two different libraries it is possible to sync with the same logical library from multiple computers. Each library has an internal ID and when iTunes connects to your iPod/iPad/iPhone it compares the local ID with the one the device normally syncs with. If they are the same you can go ahead and sync...
I have my library cloned to a small 1Tb USB drive which I can take between home & work. At either location I use SyncToy to update the local copy with the external drive. Mac users should be able to find similar tools. I can open either of the local libraries or the one on the external drive and update the media content of my iPhone. The slight exception is Photos which normally connects to a specific folder on a specific machine, although that can easily be remapped to the current library if you create a "Photos" folder inside the iTunes Media folder so that syncing the iTunes folders keeps this up to date as well. I periodically sweep my library for new files & orphans with iTunes Folder Watch just in case I make changes at one location but then overwrite the library with a newer copy from the other. Again Mac users should be able to find similar tools.
As long as your media is organised within an *iTunes Music* or *iTunes Media* folder, in turn held inside the main iTunes folder that has your library files (whether or not you let iTunes keep the media folder organised) each library can access items at the same relative path from the library folder so the library can be at different drives/paths on different machines. This solution ensures I always have adequate backups of my library and I can update my devices whenever I can connect to the same build of iTunes.
In your case, as long as your library is within the capacity of both computers, you could use SyncToy across the network to keep the two copies of your library in sync whenever both computers are in the same place.
tt2
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