Syncing apps question.

I have just recently started to sync my IPod Touch to another computer, which I have authorised. I can download purchased songs off this, but a notification comes up when i want to sync apps purchased, saying that it has to delete my other apps before it can sync the new ones.
I was wondering if there was any way to keep my old apps and still sync on the new one?
Thanks

Copy iTunes folder from Music of old computer and replace it with New Computer in your Music folder.
NOTE: By this you will loose all your new downloads, backup's and settings but after replacing iTunes wont't give that notification anymore and you can add new music, apps or wat's so ever.
Hope this helps!

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Hello, so I had a small question to ask about transferring apps from both the iphone to itunes.
Basically, I downloaded an app from the app store ON my iphone.
I've made a lot of progress and have a lot of data in this app.
The(Sync app) box was never checked on my itunes, so I transferred my purchases from my iphone to my itunes, and now i've downloaded a few more apps (over 20mb) ON itunes that I want to put on my iphone.
Thing is, when I click "sync apps" it gives me a warning saying something along the lines of "Apps in itunes will replace all in iphone, including data"
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There is no data in the apps themselves. Your app data is stored in the backup file iTunes creates. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
From Page 179 of http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iphone_userguide.pdf, "You can reinstall an app and restore its data as long as you backed up iPhone with iTunes on your computer. (If you try to delete an app that hasn’t been backed up to your computer, an alert appears.) To retrieve the app data, you must restore iPhone from a backup containing the data."
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My friend has an iPod Touch 4th generation. A while back he asked me to help him get apps onto the iPod, and I discovered that the App Store on the iPod itself was nowhere to be found, nor can he remember ever having one. In addition to this, he can't sync apps onto the iPod from within iTunes - the option to sync in the apps tab is greyed out. The music/movies/etc. sync just fine, however. At the time, his iPod had iOS 4.1.
After checking for parental restrictions in his iTunes and the iPod, I found that his iPod has a restrictions password set, which he doesn't know. His parents have no memory of setting restrictions and don't know the password, either.
I read online that the only way to remove the restrictions password is to restore the iPod, and since this seemed to be a good idea anyway due to the odd issue with iTunes refusing to sync apps, we restored the iPod and updated to iOS 5.1 today. Unfortunately, the App Store is still nowhere to be found, and we still can't sync apps in iTunes. The iPod still claims a restrictions password has been set as well.
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Before I posted this, I did a little more looking online about the restrictions password, which is apparently restored along with a backup. Neither of us were present during the restore (we had to leave for a couple of hours after the restore had been started), so I'm only asking this because I don't have his iPod or computer with me at the moment to test it myself - is there a way to manually cancel restoring from a backup during the process? If so, I need to restore the iPod a second time.
In the meantime, any ideas about my other three questions?
Thanks in advance for the help.
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It seems that it only works the other way - i.e. creating the structure in iTunes and having that copied to the iPhone when syncing apps.
I know this has been posted in various ways before, but there seems to be no answer, and Apple appear either not to understand the question, or its importance to so many users.
Anyone found a way of doing this yet - or Apple - please can we have this fixed?

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http://www.apple.com/feedback

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- so I was transferring pictures from my Mom's iPhone to the computer and syncing other pictures back onto the phone. all well and good. then I do a general sync and iTunes said something about the computer not being authorized to sync apps or something. so i authorized it. **** (here's the tricky part: my mom doesn't use the iPhone for music or anything like that... just calls, texts, apps, etc. so when she first got the iPhone my brother just set up the phone using his iTunes account. I have no idea if this caused any sort of malfunction or not, but it hadn't in the past)*** After I authorized the computer, the phone just kept syncing and syncing and syncing, but nothing was happening so I just canceled it, unhooked it from the computer, and I thought that was that.
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I know this question has been asked before, but not for a while. Apparently I can go down my list of apps and select "Remove" or "Will Remove" etc but there used to be a check box for "sync apps". Why did Apple feel it was a good idea to remove this? I am sick to death of adding a new book to my phone then having to go and delete unwanted apps from the device - again - and rearrange the order back to how I want it. I should not have to do all this in iTunes before syncing. One button "do no sync apps" is all I want.
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Any ideas regaurding syncing apps without losing folders and organization.

I recently had a hard drive failure. So I saved what little I could while it was going down in flames. As such I managed to grab all my music but not my backup folder in itunes for my iphone. Once I got up and running fresh. I authorized the account, downloaded available files, and transferred my purchases. Being weary of losing anything. I checked and synced every thing successfully but the apps. ( I synced apps once and then restored a previous back up. Which just gave me my unsynced profile back) I have three questions. I've searched exhaustively for answers to no avail.
1. I noticed that when I check sync apps it throws my apps all over the place, so i uncheck it. Given I have transferred purchases first. Will I lose just my folders and organization if I sync ( I have 200 apps mostly in folders) or will I lose my App data as well?
2. Does anyone know a way that does not require accessing the old itunes that would allow me to keep my folders and data?
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Thanks for any help you'd have!

I recently had a hard drive failure. So I saved what little I could while it was going down in flames. As such I managed to grab all my music but not my backup folder in itunes for my iphone. Once I got up and running fresh. I authorized the account, downloaded available files, and transferred my purchases. Being weary of losing anything. I checked and synced every thing successfully but the apps. ( I synced apps once and then restored a previous back up. Which just gave me my unsynced profile back) I have three questions. I've searched exhaustively for answers to no avail.
1. I noticed that when I check sync apps it throws my apps all over the place, so i uncheck it. Given I have transferred purchases first. Will I lose just my folders and organization if I sync ( I have 200 apps mostly in folders) or will I lose my App data as well?
2. Does anyone know a way that does not require accessing the old itunes that would allow me to keep my folders and data?
(I read about the hex edit solution which requires the persistent id of the old itunes that unfortunately for me is no more)
3. Assuming syncing still keeps my app data but deletes the folders and layout. Could I be lazy, not sync apps and just keep transferring purchases when I sync everything else until that fatefull day when my iphone bites it and I need a restore? For that matter given that I was able to get every thing back with my backup when I did sync the apps that one time, do i even need to ever sync them?
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I'm trying to delete some unused/unwanted apps from within the iTunes structure. Here's what I've done already:
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How on earth do I get iTunes to delete those apps that I absolutely and positively don't want hanging around? I don't want them to suddenly appear on my iPad through some vagaries of the sync process and I don't want them showing up within iTunes.
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I feel like such a dipstick sometimes. I'll fret over a problem for hours, then post a question somewhere, then minutes later it seems that a lightbulb goes of over my head.
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Hello people+
When I uncheck "Sync Apps" in my iPod Settings, I get this error message -
+Are you sure you do not want to sync applications? All existing applications and their data on the iPod "Touch" will be removed.+
Am I understanding it correctly when I think the apps will be deleted from the Touch? In other words, I want to be able to manage my apps only on my Touch, and I don't want a copy of the apps on my desktop, and I don't want to sync through iTunes.
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You can do it all on your touch but what if is the big question. Sync you apps and your music and the first time you need to restore your iPod, you will see the genius of the system.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

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