Orphaned iPhone
Greetings. I did a clean install on the Mac my iPhone was linked with. Now whenever I try to sync it tells me it's going to replace everything on my iPhone. I haven't synced in like 6 months because of this but can't deal with it any longer (I can't get any of the music purchased on my phone onto my computer). How do I reconnect my Mac and my iPhone?
I backed up my music (the itunes music folder) to an external hard drive, but I didn't create (nor do I need) a system backup.
I'm not suggesting I should be able to sync my phone with multiple libraries, but I also don't think I should have to jump through silly hoops to keep the music I've purchased. What if I was switching to Windows? I own the music on my iPhone, I should be able to sync it to any computer I want. If that disables syncing with past computers, so be it, but I don't consider the computer the center of my universe, I consider my phone the center of my universe, and it will always have my most up to date information--so I'll always trust it over a sync with a computer, especially one that threatens to delete my contacts, music, applications, etc.
Thanks for the help, hopefully this solves the problem, but it sounds to me like it's not very well thought out.
Shouldn't the new Home Share feature include the iPhone? Sounds like the pieces to Apple's iTunes puzzle are out of sync with the licensing deals they have. I'd like a reply from someone from Apple if possible, I'm not really interested in replies from the peanut gallery.
Cheers.
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