ITunes insists on wiping iPhone media every time I sync
Every single time I sync my iPhone 4S to my iTunes, iTunes tells me the phone is synced with some other library on some other computer, and I have to wipe out all the media on the phone if I want to sync. (There is not any "other library".) This is driving me me nuts. Anybody know how to fix this?
I'm running Windows 7, iTunes 11.0.4.4, and iOS 6.1.3.
There are several disadvantages to that:
1) It's a 64gb iphone and it takes forever to re-sync all the media.
2) It loses all the data in the apps, for example, I lose all my downloaded Audible audiobooks, along with the bookmark where I last stopped listening.
3) It loses all the star ratings, play counts, and other metadata about the itunes songs I've updated on my iPhone since the last synx.
4) I have to manually go into iTunes and re-select all the movies, playlists, photos, etc. that I want to sync to the phone. Every. Single. Time.
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