Syncing Ipad & iPhone in Seperate Folders

Need some advice. I currently have an iPad and will be getting the iPhone 4s soon. I want to keep the apps, music, photo's and video's in seperate folders, so when I sync or backup a device it would save it in designated folder. Would you suggest making 2 seperate folder's 1 for the iPad & 1 for iPhone, I don't want the same apps, etc., on each device or visa versa. In iTunes "Edit" "Perferences" "Advance" settings I have created a folder for my iPad, should I do the same with the iPhone? and change folders through the Advance when I sync up each device ? or would this confuse iTunes ?

How are you syncing your ipad right now? Are you just syncing everything? You don't have to - you check off which items you want for the ipad. then when you get the iphone you check off different apps for that. This apple article has a screenshot of that in step #5
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1977
If you're determined to have separate folders between your ipad & iphone, you might be better off having completely separate library database files. You can do a shift-start to choose between your iPad and iPhone library database and have them use different folders.
Switching the folder location in one library database is guaranteed to be a mess, no matter how you think you'll always remember. If you have podcasts that auto download they might start downloading when you're in the wrong library, for example.
itunes is designed to support multiple devices...maybe you're overthinking this?
The backups will still be separate though and always go to that location in the article I posted above.

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Ok, in the iMac you're gonna set up a CalDAV account with your google login/password. It will work flawlessly and you won't have any problems, it will always update the google calendar and be updated by it. Just remember to use CMD+R to refresh it whenever you want, so you don't have to wait the 15 minutes or whatever you set in preferences.
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Google's setup instructions for CalDAV (both iPhone and iPad) is here: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=151674
The instructions for both iPhone and iPad for Exchange is here:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740
(just be sure to select calendar only, cause I'm assuming you're using IMAP or other protocol for mail and contacts).
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Well, my experiences revealed that the iPhone and the iPad will sync flawlessly with Google Calendar and the iMac, without any problems, BUT as long as you use Exchange AND Push to update the calendars (CalDAV doesn't support Push, and you need Push so the iPad sync works).
Let me repeat that: IF and ONLY IF you have BOTH Exchange protocol configured and PUSH enabled iPad and iPhone will sync flawlessly. But many people (me included) dont want to use push because a) it has a battery hit b) they don't need instant updates c) it consumes cellular data when you're not on Wifi, and if you don't have an unlimited plan that's not good.
So, if you TURN OFF PUSH with Exchange sync, the iPad will stop syncing properly. Curiously, the iPhone will continue syncing properly.
What I discovered is that, on the iPad, doesn't matter if you use CalDAV or Exchange, the moment you turn OFF push notifications it won't sync manually anymore. And by that I mean that with push off the iPad will not refresh calendar data when you open the calendar app (as it should since push is off and manual fetch is selected).
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- The iphone will be updated by both google calendar and the iMac and events created in the iPad;
- The iPad will NOT be updated when you open the calendar app, so it won't see any changes made either on the iPhone, iPad or Google Calendar, but when you create new events in the iPad you will see the data icon spinning so it will send that event to the other 3, but it will not recieve anything.
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I've found no pattern as to what triggers the sync. It doesn't seem to matter if I go into another app or not, or whether I close out the calendar app from the task menu. It's just totally random.
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