Lost all my music on iTunes, as i re-installed OS X, but my iPhone still has them, any way to put them back into my iTunes?
ok, I need to re-install my OS X and because i did this, my music is gone .AND yes i thought i had backed them up, BUT they are GONE!, I was wondering BECAUSE my iPhone still has all of my music is there a way i can sync the phone so that that music go onto the computer?, every time i press the sync a warning pops up and says i will erase all the music on the phone, please help
for purchases from the iTunes store do this:
ensure iTunes on the new installation is authorized for your iTunes store account(s). connect your device and right-click or control-click it in the iTunes Source list, then choose transfer purchases from the shortcut menu that appears.
for everything else check out this post by Zevoneer.
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I would suggest a serious discussion with your son.
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I can't think of anything but icloud, and what was purchased via itunes -
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for purchases from the iTunes store do this:
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I recently got my computer back from Geek Squad and about three fourths of my iTunes library is gone. All of the music I imported directly to this computer, and all of the music I purchased is here, but most of my library is originally from a family computer. I transferred it to this computer, but since i got it back, iTunes says it can't locate it. We don't have the family computer anymore either.
I do have all the music on my iPad though. Is there any way to transfer it back to my computer?Katy288 wrote:
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This makes no sense. It doens't matter where they originated from.
If they were in iTunes on this computer and this backup is of this computer, they are from this computer.
Look in /My Music/iTunes/iTunes media/Music/ folder and see what is there? -
I recently lost all of my files do to a hard drive crash. The backup service (which I will never use again) didn't back all of my photos up, but I had them on my phone. I hooked the phone up and it automatically went into some sort of synch mode, but instead of putting the photos onto iTunes, it deleted all of the photos from my phone! Now they are synched with the smaller set, and I've lost precious photos! I'm so upset!! Is there anything I can do or is it lost.
I have some on my iTunes but I'm afraid to synch and loose those as well. can someone help me?
I'm on iPhone 4
iTunes 10.7
thank youQuit the photos app
Double tap home button, hold icon til it wiggles the tap the red dot -
Iphone 3gs is there any way that i can save contact on itunes
iphone 3gs is there any way that i can save contact on itunes
Contacts are not saved in itunes.
Contacts can be saved a number of ways though. With a 3GS you can update to iOS5 and use iCloud to sync contacts to computers or other iOS devices or just to the iCloud server. You can back up your phone to iCloud which does save your contacts.
You can use iTunes to sync your contacts with address book on a mac, or windows contacts on a PC, or with outlook contacts. You can make a backup in iTunes which will include your contacts. They will not be accessible but you can restore to a device if something happens to your device and recover them.
You can also sync your contacts through a mail client such as yahoo, google, hotmail, or any exchange service.
Lastly, there's many apps that can store contacts. -
Hi all can anyone help a man who knows very little about computers but is desperate for some help, i down loaded the new ios6 and lost all my data incuding my music, i just need to sync from my pc but it will not sync at all can anyone tell me what to do.
I have the same problem, since the update two days ago, appears when you always unlock the Apple logo and a loading bar (see file below). Have been three times all over itunes set to the factory settings and reload. Still the same. Now also in use, always on the screen with the Apple logo. Please help me, what's up?
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Lost my music, is there any way to get it back through "previous itunes library" file?
About a 2 months ago I had to update my iTunes library, leading to this mess. The update told me that it didn't finish and that there was an error, so I had to reinstall all of my itunes. This led to all my songs having an exclamation point next to them. I didn't know how to get the music to each file so I got frustrated and deleted them. Then I found all of my songs and dragged them into itunes. Now, all my play counts, date of purchases, playlists, ratings, etc. are gone!! I noticed that there are "previous itunes libraries", one of which is from a couple days before all this happened. Is there ANY way at all that I can revert back to that file and it will have my playlists, play counts, etc.? ANY help will be greatly appreciated!!!
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer files/docs/pics/music/etc.
Use your backup copy to put everything back.
If for some reason you have failed to maintain a backup copy (not good), then you can transfer from an ipod: File>Transfer Purcahses
You buy one and only one download. it is your responsibility to move copy/backup your purchases. -
Any help you can give will be appericated. I don't want to reload 4 gig worth of music off CDs.
Some of the information below has subsequently appeared in a document by turingtest2: Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991
Your i-device was not designed for unique storage of your media. It is not a backup device and media transfer was planned with you maintaining a master copy of your media on a computer which is itself properly backed up against loss. Syncing is one way, computer to device, updating the device content to the content on the computer, not updating or restoring content on a computer. The exception is iTunes Store purchased content.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 - only purchases from iTunes Store
For transferring other items from an i-device to a computer you will have to use third party commercial software. Examples (check the web for others; this is not an exhaustive listing, nor do I have any idea if they are any good):
- Senuti - http://www.fadingred.com/senuti/
- Phoneview - http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/
- MusicRescue - http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/products/musicrescue/
- Sharepod (free) - http://download.cnet.com/SharePod/3000-2141_4-10794489.html?tag=mncol;2 - Windows
- Snowfox/iMedia - http://www.mac-videoconverter.com/imedia-transfer-mac.html - Mac & PC
- iexplorer (free) - http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/ - Mac&PC
- Yamipod (free) - http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/downloads/ - PC, Linux, Mac [Still updated for use on newer devices? No edits to site since 2010.]
- 2010 Post by Zevoneer: iPod media recovery options - https://discussions.apple.com/message/11624224 - this is an older post and many of the links are also for old posts, so bear this in mind when reading them.
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141 - dates from 2008 and some outdated information now.
Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide - http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/ - Information about use in disk mode pertains only to older model iPods.
Get Your Music Off of Your iPod - http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Get_Your_Music_Off_of_Your_iPod - I am not sure but this may only work with some models and not newer Touch, iPhone, or iPad.
Additional information here https://discussions.apple.com/message/18324797 -
I have roughly 22,000 photos on my external hard drive, and when I deleted all the photos from my computer after copying them to my hard drive, they deleted from the external hard drive as well. When I look in my trash, I have 22,000 ish photos in there, but when I plug in my external hard drive, I have 44,000 ish. Is there any way I can restore my photos from the trash on my hard drive to the folders they were taken from?
You can drag them out of the trash folder to wherever you wish. There is no automatic way to restore them.
If you have a recent backup of your computer (at the risk of preaching, everyone should have one), restore them from there.
Barry
P.S. I have no clue what you did or why you have 44,000 on the external drive -
Help!!!!!
You can redownload iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
You can't undelete items from the iPod. -
I've changed my apple id email and password on the laptop and now when i go to my son's iphone which uses the same account for itunes it's still showing the old email address and won't accept either the new or the old password - help! he wanted to buy a film for a long car journey tomorrow and we're stuck! Any advice gratefully received - how do i get that iphone to recognise the new apple id? Thanks
Its very simpul bro, all u have to do is to Go in Settings of iphone, go to store. U will find ur apple id their. Make it forget, re enter ur id and new Password. And u are all done, enjoy using App store
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