New imac w/ Leopard coming

OK! i have a serious question
i am receiving a new 24" Friday
when i go to sync my iphone it will say "
"it has been synced with another library
do i want to erase and sync with this computer's library?"....
the new puter is empty
can i transfer the data from the phone to the puter or do i have to install what i have backed up from my external to the phone?
i like the iphone just the way it is....the other Mac it is synced with is in another state now

You don't need to lose everything. Just copy your entire library of tunes from the old to the new computer. Then sync to the new computer. You might have to authorize the new computer on your itunes account in order for any purchased music to transfer, but that's trivial.
The only thing you can't do is use the phone itself to copy the tunes over to your new computer.

Similar Messages

  • Function keys don't work on New IMac with Leopard.. very sad

    We just got a New IMac with Leopard at work and my F Keys don't work at all. I have tried everything, even checking the "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys", but it doesn't work at all. I use these keys all the time. How can I fix this?

    WebWolf wrote:
    My Bad, I am sure I am not the only one that has done this. I had not assigned the F Keys to their function under Exposé, I thought they didn't work after I turned on the F Keys under the Keyboard & Mouse window. So, I thought I would post this to help anyone else that did this.
    They now work, yea!!!!
    Sometimes we solve our own problems quite well
    I believe that Leopard does reset to the default F keys.

  • Leopard iMac now,iPad2 now,new iMac with Lion coming in May,how do I handle moving to iCloud?

    especially email, which is now in MacMail.
    As titile says I have an aging pre Intel iMac running 10.5.8, an iPad 2 with the latest iOS and I am going to replace the old G5 iMac with a new iMac running Lion in May.
    So I will transition my MobileMe to the Cloud before the world as we know it ends...
    My question is whether I can get ahead of the game by using my iPad to move to the iCloud now, and catch up with the desktop transition later--will this result in chaos later?
    I did not do a search for this because I could not fathom how to phrase the search .
    I would be grateful if some iCloud gurus could unravel this for me.
    TIA
    Caroline

    You can do either, if you migrate to iCloud now you will need to use iCloud.com from your browser to access your calendars and contacts though as iCal and address book will cease to sync.

  • Transferring Email from Outlook 2007 to a new iMac running Leopard

    I previously decided to make the jump from Windows Vista Ultimate to a new iMac several months ago and was just waiting for the release of Leopard. It was my understanding that the transfer would be seamless. But I recently read an article by Walt Mossberg that appeared to indicate that you cannot transfer email files from Outlook 2007 to the iMac's email program. Does anyone know if this is true or not? I need to have all of my old email folders. I DO NOT want to have to buy and install a Microsoft operating system to make this work either. This is a deal killer for me if I cannot have my old emails available.

    Use O2M from littlemachines.com

  • New Imac 24" Leopard: migrate from G5(Tiger)  How To?

    Have a new Imac 24". Want to transfer my files from my Dual 2GHZPowerPC G5 to the intel Imac. Older mac has Photoshop 7 and Adobe Pagemaker 7. I have a new CS, Office 08 as well as Iwork 09 for the new Imac. My question is should I install the new programs on the Imac and then migrate over from the G5 ? How do I move my Itunes stuff over?? Previously I have moved from an older computer to the new using an ethernet cable and target mode. Now I'm reading on this site to use a firewire cable instead?? Will the old Apple Works stuff I have on the G5 automatically be changed over to Pages, or do I have to do something specific? Have lots of old apps on the G5, so know I don't want to do an auto migrate. Also all my photos are stored in different folders, according to subject, year, etc. as I use Photoshop and not I photo. When I move these photos, will they be put into Iphoto (which I don't want!)? Any help would be appreciated. I am about 600 miles from the closest Apple store, so can't really run down and get help from a Genius... I am it I guess. Have depended on this forum before and it is a great help! Thanks in advance, VW

    Again thanks to everyone for help. Imac is working great. Only problem is with mail actually on both my computers (G5 & Imac) using my pop account. My local internet provider apparently doesn't use a secure SSL. Their certificate is authenticated by themselves. I have had problems with the email on and off for sometime. Last week I couldn't access one of my email accounts using the correct password. I ended up calling them, and the guy I talked to said my password was what I had entered, he didn't know why it wouldn't work. Now the same account wouldn't work at all. I was able to send but not receive, then I couldn't do either. I did nothing to change anything on the account. Called today and was told someone had gone into my mailboxes and had deleted that account, though it still showed up on my list. He said I must have a "virus" or someone who knows my password must have changed this. NO one knows my password EXCEPT the techs at the pop server. He then said I must have a new virus and to invest in a heavy duty virus protection program for all my computers, even though they are MACS. Last summer these people allowed one of my employees to call them directly, and CHANGE my password and forward all my email to his, the employee's email address, without the employee giving my password or answering any security questions. Something is weird here.... May the fact that they don't have SSL security and that they make up their own "authorization" have anything to do with these problems??? Also have had my email addresses from this account used by spammers, etc. It is a business account, so shows up on advertising. Is it because they are NOT SSL secure allow this to happen? Could it make it easier for someone or a virus to affect their system? I live in an area with not many people. This is the only internet provider in the entire area. Any suggestions?? Thanks, VW

  • HP Photosmart Studio running SLOW on my new iMac w/Leopard

    We just became Mac users with our new iMac less than a month ago. We got the HP 4400 all in one with the computer as well. I unloaded pics from my camera's card today and used the editing software for the first time....it was incredibly slow. Is there a reason for that? Is it like a PC....could I be running other programs that I'm not aware of that could have been slowing it down? It actually "locked up" at one point which was extremely frustrating to me with a new computer. I used the unloading and editing software with my old PC and old HP printer with no problems, so I was very surprised when the "new stuff" was sub par today.
    Anyone out there that can suggest something or help me out?

    I also am a new Mac user and have purchased a C7280 printer with all the accompanying software. I have experienced exactly the same problem and looking at the Activity Monitor the PhotosmartStudio application is making a large number of Unix calls. I have already uninstalled and re-installed the Software and this has made no difference. The silly part of this whole saga is that I would much prefer to download direct into iPhoto, but I am not sure how to separate the applications and discontinue using Photosmart. I think it might be simpler to purchase another printer!

  • Cannot SCAN with Samsung SCX-4500 Printer, New iMac w/Leopard

    I just purchased at an Apple retail store, a brand new 24" iMac along with a Samsung SCX-4500 laser printer, copier and scanner. Bad news is I can't get the scanner function to work. It prints and copies but doesn't scan. I went to Samsung and downloaded the lasted and greatest drivers but no scanning capability yet. Has anyone else purchased this printer? Is it compatible with OX 10.5 or is the Apple store just trying to get rid of printers that don't seem to work with Leopard. This bugs me. Any help would be great.

    This is from another forum as I was looking for the answer to the same issue:
    First off, when Samsung labels a button "Scan to PC", they mean it. That button only works with Windows PCs not Macs.
    To get it to the Samsung SCX 4500 to scan on your Mac you need to acquire the image using some other software. I used Preview.
    Put the picture or document that you want scanned on the bed. Open Preview. From the File menu, select the Import Image... option.
    The scanner activates and you will see, you guessed it, a preview of what is to be scanned. Notice that the scan button is grayed out.
    You now have to click and drag a box around what you want scanned. Once you draw your box identifying the exact image to be scanned, the Scan button is enabled. Now adjust any options, and hit Scan. Enjoy.
    Thanks to the Apple Genius in Century City who helped me out, also this post was helpful:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread....sageID=5800155

  • Is the Macbook Pro Retina display better than the LED display on the new iMac that is coming out?

    I am thinking of either buying the Macbook Pro retina display (15") or waiting for the iMac 27" display. I am mainly focusing on the display, so what is better?

    vinay.sujan wrote:
    Is the MacBook Pro Retina display resolution of 2880-by-1800 a strain on the eyes as I understand the higher the resolution the more strainful the screen can be to the eyes?
    Well there are two or three causes of eyestrain with displays different people seem to have.
    1: Small type/UI elements
    2: Glossy screens
    3: Flicker rate
    1:
    The higher pixel rate combined with the display set at the higher resolution is going to cause UI and type to be smaller and harder to see. In fact it's advised to set OS X to a lower resolouton so it upscales better to match the pixel of the higher display.
    Reports coming in say watching HD 1920 x 1080 trailers on the anti-glare 17" is best as the pixel content matches the display almost fullscreen, where on the MBP-R it's upscaled and thus looks blurry.
    HD content makers are NOT going to change all their video cameras to support 2880 x 1800 full screen, so in order to get a clearer image playing HD 1080 content, one will have to do so in a smaller window.
    2:
    The new MBP-R dispalys are 75% less glossy, but not 100% less glossy like the anti-glare models so this can still cause some people problems. This can be lowered to under 1%, however I'm suspecting to do so would be considered giving up a military advantage to China where Apple gets it products made.
    3:
    I don't know about the flicker rate if it's better or not on the MBP-R's than the previous screens.

  • Can I start up my new imac (Snow Leopard) from a Tiger installation disc?

    Last week I upgraded to an entirely new machine. My old imac was running on Tiger and the logic board failed. Though I had an external, I had my local Apple store transfer my hard drive data to my new mac. Since then, I've run Disc Utility a few times, each time with no problem until today.
    Disc Utility is giving me the following error:
    The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
    Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
    Since I don't have a Snow Leopard disc, I've tried starting up with my old Tiger installation disc, but to no avail... At the risk of sounding a little stupid, should Apple have given me a Leopard disc with my purchase?

    bgaribay wrote:
    Last week I upgraded to an entirely new machine. My old imac was running on Tiger and the logic board failed. Though I had an external, I had my local Apple store transfer my hard drive data to my new mac. Since then, I've run Disc Utility a few times, each time with no problem until today.
    Disc Utility is giving me the following error:
    The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
    Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
    Since I don't have a Snow Leopard disc,
    I've tried starting up with my old Tiger installation disc, but to no avail...
    you can not use the tiger disk. you need to use your snow leopard disk. what happened to yours? every new computer comes with one. it's called install disk one and is packaged with every new computer.

  • New imac snow leopard downgrade?

    is there anyway i can downgrade back to leopard? the new machines come with snow leopard pre installed but i cant use pro tools 8 with snow leopard. there must be some way to do this?

    dharmasarc wrote:
    is there anyway i can downgrade back to leopard? the new machines come with snow leopard pre installed but i cant use pro tools 8 with snow leopard. there must be some way to do this?
    generally, this is impossible. your imac is almost certain to require hardware drivers not present on any leopard install. you can try installing leopard on it using the latest leopard DVD but the chances of it working are very slim.

  • 3rg gen ipod dock connector not working with new imac on leopard 10.5.1

    Recently found that my 3rd gen ipod is not working properly when i connect it using its dock. itunes just freezes and comes out with some "disk insertion error". however, when i don't use the dock and connect the ipod to the imac directly using its own firewire cable, everything is ok and working properly.
    it seems to be the ipod dock that is the problem. but am wondering why wouldn't it work? any ideas? I'd still like to be able to use the ipod dock...
    thanks.

    ipodaid.page.tl go there, he got my iPod fixed.

  • I have a new iMac running leopard.

    I want to upload the info from my iphone4 to the new mac.  How do I do this?  I don't want to lose any info from my iphone.

    hatcherca wrote:
    I want to upload the info from my iphone4 to the new mac.  How do I do this?  I don't want to lose any info from my iphone.
    The iPhone is not a backup device, so you shouldn't expect to be able to get everything that is on it onto your new computer. The far better way is to restore the backup of your old computer onto the new computer. Here is what you CAN save from the iPhone - start by installing the latest version of iTunes on your new computer:
    Verify that your new computer has iTunes 10.5.2. If it doesn't, download and install the latest version from http://www.apple.com/itunes
    Authorize the new iTunes to the account the iPhone is associated with
    Connect the phone but DO NOT SYNC
    Choose "Transfer Purchases" from the iTunes File menu - this will copy your purchased music to iTunes on the Mac
    Click on the iPhone name in the left panel, then the "Info" tab in the right panel
    Choose apps on your computer to sync Contacts and Calendars to (probably Address Book and iCal)
    Make sure there is at least one entry in each app on your Mac
    If you have music that was not purchased from iTunes on your iPhone you will have to find a third party Mac app to copy it to your computer. Google for "iphone file browser"
    If you have photos in the Camera Roll you can transfer them to iPhoto, which should have opened when you connected the phone. If it didn't launch the Image Capture app
    If you have photos in the Photo app the iphone file browser can copy them to your computer, HOWEVER, they will be lower resolution than the originals
    After doing all of the above sync the phone.
    As I said at the beginning, it would be far easier just to restore the backup of your previous computer.

  • Fewer problems with Leopard if bought on new iMac rather than upgrade?

    I bought a new iMac (my 1st Mac ever) just before Leopard came out, so I have Tiger 10.4.11 now and love it. I've had no problems whatsoever and really don't plan on upgrading to Leopard because of all the problems I keep reading about. My brother is thinking about buying an iMac but hesitates because he's heard so many problems about Leopard. Question for you guys - do the Leopard problems seem more common if you've done an upgrade from Tiger, or are the problems just as common if you buy a new iMac with Leopard installed? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

    I bought a new iMac (my 1st Mac ever) just before Leopard came out, so I have Tiger 10.4.11 now and love it. I've had no problems whatsoever and really don't plan on upgrading to Leopard because of all the problems I keep reading about.
    Your choice - BUT remember that Millions of people have upgraded with NO problems - you only read about the very few who do have problems. Leopard is a great OS and IF you upgrade carefully (repair your disk, fix permissions, backup and have a bootable clone in case of problems) you are very unlikely to have problems and it is EASY to go back to your clone in the unlikely case that you do have any problem.
    My brother is thinking about buying an iMac but hesitates because he's heard so many problems about Leopard. Question for you guys - do the Leopard problems seem more common if you've done an upgrade from Tiger, or are the problems just as common if you buy a new iMac with Leopard installed
    This is a "how long ago did yo stop beating your wife question" - Problems are VERY uncommon in either case. With new systems they are highly unlikely since there is no previous damage to the system and NO incompatible third party software on the system - but problems are extremely uncommon in either case
    He should move ahead with his purchase IMHO.
    LN
    Message was edited by: LarryHN

  • Error Message after installing Photoshop & Illustrator (CS2) on new iMac

    When I launch Illustrator or Photoshop (both CS2) on my new iMac 2.8 GHz, I get the error message: "Connection Failed. server may not exist or is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and your network connection and try again."
    I click OK and they open, but this behavior is getting OLD. I've uninstalled and re-installed and I continue to get the error every time I open these applications. It only happens with Illustrator and Photoshop. I'm in the process of transferring all my files and apps from my old G4 which is connected via ethernet. I've de-activated and removed the old copies on the G4. Does anyone know what is causing this error message and how I can remedy the situation? Thanks for your help.
    (24" 2.*GHz Core 2 Duo iMac / OS 10.5.6 / 2 GB memory)

    I've just done almost exactly this. Moved to a brand new imac runnning Leopard, (but I've got the newer model imac - 4Gb, 2.93 Ghz 10.5.6) and not yet bought CS4.
    I installed both Illustrator and Photoshop CS2 from the disc (migrating didn't work, suprise suprise so I just wiped everything off and started with a clean install) but both still refused to start until I'd repaired permissions. After I did that it worked fine.
    Even using Rosetta, Photoshop CS2 seems to be faster than on the G5 imac I've just replaced (especially using an external firewire 800 drive as a scratch disc). And no apparent bugs so far.

  • New iMac freezes?

    I received my new 24" 2.8GHz iMac in early November w/4GB of Crucial memory, immediately repartitioned it, upgraded to Leopard, migrated my apps/accounts/data over from my 2.7GHz G5 Tower (which has been running Leopard perfectly), and ran Software Update to bring everything current.
    This Mac has not experienced any obvious video artifacts, or freezes while processing intensive video activity, but it is heavily customized. Here's the details:
    I've attached an Apple 23" Cinema HD Display for dual displays, a G-Tech 750GB FW800 drive for Time Machine, and a Kensington USB 2.0 powered hub to attach all my USB stuff (Harmon/Kardon SoundSticks, SanDisk memory card reader, extra Mighty Mouse, USB dock for iPhone, Canon LiDE 30 scanner, USB connection to APC Back-UPS RS 1500). I retired my old USB 1.1 hub, since I knew it would be problematic with the new system, as would be my old USB Serial Adapter.
    From a software viewpoint, I have iWork '08, iLife '08, Adobe CS3 Suite, MS Office 2004 11.3.9, Indigo 2 (home automation control software), Meteorologist, and all the other usual Apple software. At login, I have Mail, Indigo 2, iTunes, iPhoto, iCal, Address Book, Meteorologist, and Activity Monitor startup, then share iTunes and iPhoto over the local network. I also share my data volume over the local network, as this new iMac is replacing our old Windows 2003 server as a home media/data repository.
    To add to the mix, I'm also running SereneSaver Quicktime movies as Desktop backgrounds cycling every 5 minutes on both displays (although it only displays the first frame of the video on the secondary display). I was also running MacKiev's 3D Atlas Globe screen saver (displaying the latest satellite cloud cover) until I found it was locking up the new iMac in about 3 hours (with SereneSaver also running). Needless to say, this all ran perfectly on the old G5 Tower, even with its ancient ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128MB) video card. And finally, in addition to the regular .Mac/iDisk updates, and the hourly Time Machine backups, and the quarter hour Meteorologist weather updates, and the every 5 minutes Mail updates, I was using Spaces to sort out all the windows that I wasn't hiding.
    I knew I probably brought over some conflicting software, since this was a migration from a PPC Mac to an Intel iMac, so when things froze, I assumed it was a compatibility issue, and proceeded to start trashing obviously unnecessary stuff from the system/root/user libraries. I also assured everything that was running was current. Over a couple of days I thought I had pretty much found everything I could think of that might crash the new iMac (including old Symantec frameworks, MS Virtual PPC stuff, old auto startup Retrospect stuff, and the like). I tested all my apps, reran the Leopard 10.5.1 combo update, Repaired Permissions, Verified Disk (with Disk Utility), booted up from a Tiger 10.4.11 volume and checked the Leopard startup with DiskWarrior 4.0, and then ran Apple's Hardware Test from their iMac startup DVD. In the end, I was able to keep the new iMac up and running continuously performing its assigned chores for over 37 hours.
    Then, yesterday afternoon in mid-post to one of these threads, my shiny new iMac froze up. No warnings of any kind. In mid-breath it simply stopped working. The blinking colon in the menu clock stopped, the Activity Monitor CPU history graph updating in the Dock stopping updating, neither mouse would move, pressing any combination of keys on the keyboard I could think of would not interrupt the iMac from its pause. So, I sucked it up and pressed the power button to restart.
    Upon restart, I checked the Console logs, and of course, nothing untowards was identified there. Whatever froze up the iMac happened immediately. A close Apple contact of mine immediately suggested it sounded like a hardware issue. I didn't think so, but I took his advice anyway and reinstalled Leopard in a virgin partition on the internal hard drive, along with iWork '08, iLife '08, and all the latest Apple updates, again. I did not install Adobe CS3, since its installer disk doesn't finish properly in Leopard, and I didn't want to install Tiger first, then all it's updates, then CS3, then all its updates, then Leopard again. I just want to confirm, or not, that I'm having an obscure hardware issue.
    Today I'm running the virgin installation (now 16 hours into the test) to see if I can crack the 37 hour barrier. If I make it to two full days, I'll be pretty confident that I must still be having software issues with my standard startup configuration. Of course, I'm not currently running any non-Apple software, and there's no legacy stuff on this startup partition, other than the music and photos I copied over from my data partition for sharing over the network at home. I'm also foregoing Indigo 2 controlling stuff around the house, and the great SereneSaver Quicktime movies playing soothing videos (beach scenes, peaceful lakes, mountain vistas, etc. with background sounds) as my Desktop background.
    So, if this basic, virgin configuration locks up in the next day or so, my next step is to pull the Crucial 4GB of memory and put the standard Apple 2GB back in, and wait another couple of days. If that locks up, then it's a call to AppleCare. If not, then it's a call to Crucial to replace their memory modules.
    My question is whether anyone else with a simpler configuration, and no obvious video issues (as confirmed by Software Update not offering the video firmware update), is experiencing any spontaneous freezes?
    At this point, it's still premature to think I have a hardware issue, but if I do it should manifest itself with this basic, virgin installation.
    More updates later...

    I have been experiencing a Restart/Shut Down reliability issue with my new iMac and Leopard 10.5.1. This evening an Apple rep I know pointed me to a work-around in Apple Discussions:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5957261&#5957261
    This thread notes the discovery by one user that iDisk automatic syncing is not working reliably, and is preventing consistent restarting/shutting down of your Mac. Although, syncing has been working reliably for me both for .Mac stuff, and the iDisk itself, if you do a Get Info on your iDisk it reports, at least for me, that its capacity is 1TB, with 466GB available. I have only the standard 10GB .Mac account, and only 5GB of that is allocated to my iDisk, so something is clearly amiss with the .Mac iDisk setup (iDisk Get Info reports correctly on my G5 Macs w/Leopard), as being reported from the .Mac server. If you check your Console logs, you may also see this recurring error message, which is reporting a syncing error, although my syncs have, as I've said, been working correctly:
    11/25/07 9:11 PM FileSyncAgent192 MKCOL /.FileSync (FAILED), httpStatusCode:405, errorType:100, transactionState:5, txnId:3846B904-9ABB-40E5-9928-B9233FAC05D2, auto-retries=0, manual-retries=0
    To summarize, if you turn off your iDisk in your System Preferences/.Mac/iDisk preference pane, you'll have no problems restarting/shutting down. You may also need to do the power management reset (turn off Mac, unplug all devices and power for 15 seconds, reconnect, and start up) and the parameter RAM reset (reboot while holding down the cmd-opt-P-R keys). You can do this in one restart cycle, if you like. After that, restarts/shutting down has worked perfectly for me.
    Of course, I actually USE my iDisk, and will be leaving it on. But, at least I know now how to work around the restart/shut down issue. (Note: this morning my iMac running my full/standard configuration locked up, after the iDisk mounted/unmounted repeatedly during the evening, so I rebooted and switched iDisk syncing to manual. More to follow...)
    I hope Apple adds this fix to their 10.5.2 update next month.
    Note: This is such an important issue, that in addition to adding it to a reply in another Shut Down thread, I thought I'd post it as a separate topic here.

Maybe you are looking for