My computer crashed. Trying to sync apple tv to my new computer.
My computer crashed and Im trying to figure out how to sync my apple tv to my new computer. I see the apple tv in my Devices tab on my itunes. But can't get into it. How do you get your apple tv to start synching with a new computer? Thanks for your help!
No easy way - it is not designed as a primary storage device or backup solution.
Nevertheless, it seems crazy to me that Apple deny people access to their own personal or paid for media, when a drag and drop or USB connection should be easily implementable. Just doesn't make sense any gives anyone it happens to a 'bad Apple experience'
Only options:
1 - dismantle AppleTV, remove drive and connect to a Mac via a caddy and hope you'll find teh files
2 - Modify the software/hack it to enable you to access the files
3 - See if your Apple store has a friendly geeky assistant who could do 1 or 2 for you, or has some other undocumented Apple solution to help you.
For the future remember to backup important media properly, but we can all get caught out from time to time even when we do so fairly regularly.
AC
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Dear all
I am sure that this has been asked and that there is a simple solution but I can't find it.
My problem is simple. I've an Apple TV that is paired to my 'family knock about' MacBook. This MacBook has recently been dropped and is broken. The iTunes purchased content on my Apple TV is now in a state of limbo. I want to transfer all of the purchased content (movies, TV shows) from my Apple TV to my new iMac and use that as my main household machine but I can not find out how to without re-setting my ATV and losing all of the purchased content.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you.JIMWILX wrote:
Dear all
I am sure that this has been asked and that there is a simple solution but I can't find it.
IMPORTANT
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My problem is simple. I've an Apple TV that is paired to my 'family knock about' MacBook. This MacBook has recently been dropped and is broken.
Do you know if the hard drive is broken?
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Unfortunately there's no official way to do this which is why you;ve not found an answer.
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2 - If Macbook won't start or no Firewire, try and get the hard drive out to see if it works and stick in in a USB caddy to read via the iMac.
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4 - Unofficial unsupported route of applying a software hack/mod to allow network access to AppleTV from the new computer, or cracking AppleTV open and using the hard drive (note it's 2.5" PATA) as in 2, but make sure you only copy media and don't alter things.
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