Synch ipad to (new) iMac

My iMac harddrive crashed completely and had to be replaced. It was not backed up.
I am rebuilding my content on the new drive but i can't seem to fully synch my iPad and iPhone music, apps and photo albums in iTunes. When I try, a message comes up and tells me they are synched to my prior library still and all that stuff will be erased from my iPad / iPhone prior to re -synching with a new one. I can't synch to the old library because it is dead. How do i get these devices to to be friendly with my "new" iMac?

What do you mean by 'registered it on iTunes' ? You've authorised your account on your Mac's iTunes via the Store > Authorise This Computer menu option ? And you've copied your library onto the Mac ?
Copying content between computers : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
You may also find this page for syncing to a new computer useful : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

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i can't seem to get my iPad to synch with my new iMac. The iTunes prompt says that this computer isn't authorised although i have registered it on iTunes. Any other ideas for how to overcome this block?

What do you mean by 'registered it on iTunes' ? You've authorised your account on your Mac's iTunes via the Store > Authorise This Computer menu option ? And you've copied your library onto the Mac ?
Copying content between computers : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
You may also find this page for syncing to a new computer useful : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

My ipad is synched to an old windows computer how to I set it up to synch with my new iMac?

My ipad is synched to an old windows computer how to I set it up to synch with my new iMac?

From your OLD computer...
Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive... and then from the External Drive to your New Computer..
Full Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
An Added Bonus is that you will have a Backup of iTunes
If you do not have access to the iTunes Library on your Old computer... or its Backup...
See these 2 Links...
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991
Syncing to a New Computer...
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

Synching iPhone and iPad with new iMac - former pc user

I'm trying to determine to most efficient way to set up iTunes and synching of my iPhone 4 and iPad on my new iMac. I am finally moving away from using a pc and am facing the issue of trying to preserve all the content on my devices as I set up the iMac. I'm ditching the old oc iTunes library. The iMac will br the primary (and only) iTunes library going forward.
I realize I'll need to manually transfer mp3 files from the pc to the iMac (those ripped from CDs and not purchased on iTunes) and re-establish the library. But how do I avoid losing all the aps and music I purchased on my old pc as I set up the iMac iTunes?
I'm also interested in saving the contacts I've built on my iPhone - using that as the basis for my iMac contacts.
I have no intention of using the pc again -- fully realize you cannot synch to two iTunes libraries.
Any suggestions on how to begin to minimize hassle and minimize any file loss is much appreciated!

Should try by copying the itunes folder from your pc to your iMac. That should work.

Sync my existing iPad to new iMac

Hi, I have just bought a new iMac computer which i have just tried to sync with my existing iPad. I used to sync this iPad with my old laptop and when I now try to sync with the new iMac it says it will wipe all the date and replace with (not a lot) on my iMac! I don't want to wipe whats on the iPad (photos).
Also on my iTunes on my old laptop I have lots of music from old CD's that I downloaded. How do I get these onto my iMac????? The only ones on my iMac are the ones I paid for on iTunes! They are however on my iPad so can i somehow transfer them from that onto my iMac?

Mike has answered half your question and the rest is implied. As he said, Migration Assistant will transfer your data (and applications if you wish) to the new computer. Note: Migration Assistant migrates the entire account, not just data so assuming you've started up your new computer and begun using it, after you've run MA you'll have two accounts - the old one from your previous computer and the one you've been using on your new computer. For this reason it is sometimes more convenient to grab any new files you've created on the new computer and put them on a flash drive and then erase the new computer and reinstall the OS so you can use Setup Assistant to recreate your old account on the new computer. (You'll have to restart in Recovery Mode to do this. See Mike's link above.
Having moved your data from the old computer to the new one you can sync your iPad and everything that was on it will still be on it.

Connecting iPad to new iMac

I purchased a new IMac 27" a few weeks ago, I transferred everything to the new computer with no issues, but now my phones and iPad will not sync with the new computer, is there a way to force sync it?
Thank you

Provide more Info
Will not sync Can range from not being detected by the computer at all
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Old Mac Pro with 7.0 iPhoto transferred selected photo albums to my iPad. New iMac with iPhoto 11.0 will not transfer photo albums to my iPad. Why not?

I just purchased the new iMac with the latest iPhoto. Transferred my iPhoto library from my old Mac Pro. Upgraded iPhoto app and then tried to transfer photo albums to my iPad. New iPhoto will not allow transfer of selected albums, while old iPhoto did allow me to sync my selected albums to my iPad. Am I doing something wrong?

I do not have Last 12 Months selected. I also do not have Events or Faces or any of those newer designations selected. I have literally thousands of photographs in iPhoto, which is why I keep the select, special few hundred or so I want on my iPhone in very specific albums. These are the albums I select to sync. However, not all of the photos in these albums are uploading to my iPhone. They were on my iPhone and synced perfectly fine until the switch to the new laptop this weekend. All files were migrated to the new laptop, and all files are there and viewable on iPhoto. Something is causing some of the photos not to sync. That is what I need assistance with....

Transfer music from iPad to new iMac much too slow

I want to transfer my music and videos, but not my apps, from my 128 GB iPad Air to my new iMac/Mavericks.
I tried to do this by
Connecting the iPad to a USB port on the iMac
Initiating "Transfer Purchases" from iTunes
Unfortunately, this is ridiculously slow, it would take hours I estimate. For one think I have about 40 gig of apps and that takes forever to transfer. I thought that iMac supported USB 3?
Is there some reasonably quick way to do this? I can't sit around for 8 hours with my iPad hooked up to my Mac, I need it.

There are a lot of complaints about this. The bottleneck seems to be the iPad Air.
Syncing is slower on iPad Air

Moving iTunes from iPad to new iMac

help !!
how do I move my iTunes library from my iPad to my new iMac?
can't seem to get it to work.
thank you !!

check out this post by Zevoneer.
also, there are PhoneView and [iRip|http://thelittleappfactory.com/irip/?gclid=CMnaiefNwKQCFUODDgodgh4oMg].
additionally, check out the 1st post by *Chris CA* in [this|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12257908#12257908] discussion.

Sync iPad with new iMac

i just bought a brand new imac and i connected my ipad thinking i could easily sync my whole itunes library over. My actual itunes library is stored on my PC at work. When i connected it, it said it would erase everything on th ipad and sync from itunes library on the mac (of which there isn't one yet). I'm confused. Honestly I thought this would be a snap for such highly intelligent products.
Adam

Your iTunes library is stored locally on your computer. It is not stored by Apple/iTunes on a server somewhere so that your iTunes on a new computer recognizes that library and sync with it. You said it yourself that your iTunes library is on a PC at work.
You will have to copy that library to the new iMac and then iTunes on the Mac will recognize the iPad and sync accordingly. This kb article from Apple explains a number of ways that you can do this. Included in this article is the transfer purchases feature which you can do from the iPad to the new Mac, but it will only copy purchased content into the new iTunes library. The link is actually at the bottom of this post. The Atomic browser is giving me fits today.
Read this discussion as well.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3445538?start=0&tstart=0
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527

My apple id/password work on my iPhone, iPad and new iMac, except when I try to access the cloud, then it says the id/password are incorrect. same id and password works on everything else. Help

my apple id/password work on my iPhone, iPad, and on my new iMac, except for the Cloud that says the id/password are incorrect. works on all the other iMac apps, just not the cloud. Help

Go to settings>store and make sure the new apple ID is logged in at the bottom of the page.
If not, log out of the old one and sign in with the new one.

Want to sync my iPad to new iMac

currently synced to older iMac, and know want to sync to new iMac without losing data.

Copy everything from your old computer to your new one

Saving old notes from iPad to new iMac?

My old ipad is about to die (screen getting blurry) and I would like to save all its notes to my imac.
How should I do that??

Go to iPad >> Settings >> iCloud and make sure you are signed in. Then switch the Notes setting to ON. This will sync your Notes up to iCloud.
Then go to your iMac >> System Prefs >> iCloud, make sure you are signed in and tick the box for Notes. This will sync the Notes from iCloud to your desktop Notes application.
You must be running at least OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion, as Notes is part of that.

Why are some photo events missing when I synch my iPad with the new iMac?

Very confused user here.
I've just bought the new IMac, When I connected my iPad2 to the iMac and opened iPhoto on the iMac it asked to import photos. This proceeded, but when I checked it became clear that not all the events had been imported, even though iPhoto was saying that all the photos had been imported. There doesn't appear to be any reason why certain events have been missed - no difference in title, or date. How can I make sure all the photos are imported?

If the iPad works like the iPhone you can move photos into the Camera Roll as shown here:
Then from there it should sync to your Mac. That's how I got the screenshot above to my iMac and into this post.
If you have an iCloud account and Photo Stream enabled on both your iMac and iPad new photos to the Camera Roll will automatically be synced with your iMac and imported into iPhoto as long as you have the iPhoto/Photo Stream preferences set this way:
Of course this is assuming the iPad functions similarly to the iPhone in this regard and I should think it would.
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Synch ipad to (new) iMac

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