Reverse Sync on Apple TV?

My harddrive recently crashed on my 17in PowerBook. I fortunately had been backing up my iphoto library fairly regularly. I was able to restore all but about 200 photos from my backup file. when I went to sync Apple Tv on my new MacBook Pro I noticed the 200 photos I had lost were synced on my Apple Tv. Is there any way to retrieve these photos from Apple Tv before I resync my new computer?

Winston, this may answer another question I've had as I try to decide whether Apple TV will serve the function I'm looking for.
I'm looking for someplace to store all of my music from my old CD collection (my cd jukebox just bit the dust). I don't have enough storage space on my computer for all of it and was thinking about using the Apple TV essentially as a hard drive to store it all, which would allow me to play it through my home theater system.
But from this discussion it looks like I can't load stuff from iTunes onto the Apple TV, then delete it from iTunes, correct? I.e. when it syncs to that computer it will erase anything I've deleted from iTunes? So in essence, if I were to buy a 160Gb Apple TV, I have to have a computer with 160GB of storage space to sync with?
Alas, if this is true it dashes my hopes that this nifty little box would solve my cd problem!

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no matter on which I purchase on. Even when I right-click the Apple TV icon in
iTubes and select 'Trasnfer Purchases' it syncs for 2 seconds... then nothing.
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But on Snow Leopard and iTunes 9, Apple TV 3.0.1 it's annoying as ****.

This isn't good enough from Apple. This is not some small glitch, it's a FUNDAMENTAL flaw. and needs to be sorted ASAP.
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No easy way to get content off AppleTV I'm afraid.
Your only options are to:
- dismantle and remove internal drive, and try and read the drive inserted in a caddy (but you'd need a Mac for that due to the file system)
- hack AppleTV to gain command line access (you might need some utilities to do this on Windows)
Neither are ideal options.
Depending on how valuable the photos are your best option may be a professional data recovery solution but there would be no guarantees.
Best case would be if it's not the passport drive but the control electronics/interface that's gone. Might also be worth checking that your USB cable and port on PC are ok.
If you do gain access to the drive and you think it's partially corrupted do not delete/write to it.
Might also be worth checking if WD have any diagnostic apps online for you to try and determine what's wrong.
You haven't added any new drives/optical drives recently, which in some configurastions could take that externald drive letter and hide it ?

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Is there any way to somehow save the bookmarks from the Touch, or one-way sync them to the MBP?
I have searched the web quite exhaustively, and it seems anyone interested in reverse-syncing iPods just wants to rip the music.
Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the discussions,
First of all, disable autosync and backup your ipod manually by right clicking on it in the device list and choosing backup. After that at least your bookmarks can be restored on your ipod again, just in case.
See this article about syncing: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296
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What is the recommended software to do reverse sync? I need to move music from an iPod to my iTunes w/o erasing the iPod.

See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
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I made a HUGE mistake!! About 2-3 weeks ago I d/l'd the 7.0.1.8 version of iTunes (CD Driver 2.0.6.0 and CD Driver DLL 2.0.6.0).
It worked fine to watch an episode of Heroes.
Then this week I opened up iTunes and there was a series of pop-up prompts that I (mea culpa!) ignored and I just kept clicking on "Next" until it got to the last one which I think asked something about my library and if I wanted iTunes to do it or if I wanted to manually do it. I answered yes. I am completely at fault, I just kept clicking through without really reading the prompts.
My whole library was scanned for about 20 minutes or more, something about gapless backups. Then when it was all done, I realized I had duplicates and triplicates of songs in my iTunes.
I went to "Show All Duplicates" and clicked on Select All and Delete. That deleted the whole library. Fortunately I had it backed up recently to an external USB hard drive. I repopulated iTunes via the backups. It still created duplicates which I am painstakingly and manually deleting.
HOWEVER, while the restore did restore my playlists, they are not all populated. The SmartPlaylists were re-created and repopulated. My personal playlists were re-created but were not populated.
I have not synced my iPod since before all this occured. Is there a way to reverse sync iTunes from the iPod to restore my settings and populated lists that are still on my iPod?
Thanks for any advice, insight, or suggestions offered!
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take a look at this
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
or
you can download third party software that will allow you to take the information on your ipod and trasfer it back on to your computer.. you can find these programs at www.versiontracker.com
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Settings > iCloud.
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HT2731 how can i sync my Apple ID to my iTunes sign-in? I have an old ID showing up in my iTunes sign-in window and cannot get rid of it to show my current Apple ID. I don't have the old password to the old ID in order to "manage" my account.

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Did you create a new account or did you update your existing account with a new email address ? You can tap on the id in Settings > iTunes & App Stpre and sign out of it and you can then sign with the new/updated account.
If you did create a new account then your existing content will remain tied to your old account, so only that old account will be able to redownload that content and/or download updates to its apps. If you can't remember the password for it then you can try getting it reset via this page : http://iforgot.apple.com

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itsamacthing,
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Hello everyone, I have a problem when I sync my apple device. I plug it in and a message comes up saying, this device could not be synced because this computer is not authorized for the purchased items on this phone. I already tried to authorize again.

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Hi applerinneedforhelp,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If iTunes is asking you to authorize the computer, and you've already done so, the troubleshooting steps in this article can help:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1389
Regards,
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I can no longer sync my apple tv with my ITunes account. I have a 1st generation Apple TV and upgraded my ITunes to the latest softward. Now I can't sync my ITunes library. My apple tv never show up as a device on my computer.

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