Syncing iPod to newly installed iTunes
will i lose all my songs if i try to sync my iPod to a newly installed version of iTunes? i uninstalled iTunes awhile ago and want to reinstall and sync my iPod but heard i may lose the songs. does anybody know if this is true? thanks in advance!
No uninstalling and re-installing iTunes should have no affect on the content that was stored in it. So after re-installing iTunes, your content is still appearing there, you can safely sync your iPod.
If not, you'll need to re-import all that content back into your library from your computer again.
B-rock
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My computer was reimaged and iTunes was deleted, now when I try to sync my ipad it says it is synced with another library? How do I sync with the newly installed iTunes without losing all of my data on my ipad?
Copy all the content on your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes. Then go ahead and sync the iPod with your new library.
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.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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Moving songs from Ipod to newly installed Itunes library
The hard drive on my old computer died, so after I got a new laptop, I reinstalled Itunes from the CD I got with my nano, and then upgraded it to the latest version.
However it will not let me move music stored on my ipod into my library (which aside from a couple of recovered albums is empty as I lost all the music stored there) so I have the music stored on my Ipod and none of it in my Library.
I have tried copy and pasting and drag and dropping the songs, but the paste is greyed out and I get a not allowed circle when trying to drop into lib. Am I missing something really obvious?
Any help would be great!If you have any iTunes Music Store purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. A paragraph on it has been added to this article: Transfer iTunes Store purchases using iPod
The transfer of content from other sources such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, this is just a small selection of what's available, they are generally quite straightforward. You can also read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
TuneJack Windows Only
iPod2PC Windows Only
iGadget Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
iRepo Windows Only
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac and Windows Versions
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
There is also a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows or a Mac. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod
I would also advise that you get yourself an external hard drive and back your stuff up, relying on an iPod as your sole backup is not a good idea and external drives are comparatively inexpensive these days, you can get loads of storage for a reasonable outlay. -
HT5100 Sync iPod (Shuffle) with newly installed iTunes; songs deleted? :(
My music from my ipod (shuffle) is not on my ipod anymore after my newly installed itunes on my PC asked me to sync my ipod music, where did it go? My itunes library did not have any songs which is why I thought the songs wouldn't be replaced. I need help ...
- Transfer iTunes purchases to the new computer by:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
- Transfer other music by using a third-party progtam like one of those discussed here
Copy music
- WHen everything is on your computr connect the iPod to the computer and make a backup. Do that by right clicking on the iPod under Devices in iTunes and select Back Up
- Restore the iPod from that backup
Note that the backup that iTunes makes does not contain synced media like apps and music. -
I have a new computer and have installed iTunes on it.
Now I want to sync my iphone but the new itunes on the new computer wants to remove everything on my niphone and replace it with what's on the newly installed itunes data but it does not have my data.
How can I sync the new itunes with my iphone and not have my phone data wiped out?
Thanks,
hscllchscllc wrote:
How can I sync the new itunes with my iphone and not have my phone data wiped out?
There is no way to stop iTunes from doing exactly what it is designed to do.
The iPhone is designed to sync with one and only one computer.
If you have moved/copied your iTunes library from your old computer to your new one, then iTunes wiping your device is no problem. You would simply sync and iTunes will put all the content back. -
but now all my music and apps are not showing on the newly installed iTunes or on my iPhone. How can I get all my content that is on original iTunes to show on the newly installed iTunes and iPhone? Can anyone please help me?
I have this same issu over the pass few weeks and it's getting on my nerve very badly. I've been trying to fixing and finding solutions over for weeks. This is terribly disappointing!
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have had to reformat my hard drive. I have installed windows 7 and want to know how to transfer the songs on my iPad back to the newly installed iTunes on my compute?
Copy all the content on your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes. Then go ahead and sync the iPod with your new library.
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.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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Synching iPhone with newly-installed iTunes
I plugged in my iPhone to newly-installed iTunes on a new laptop (to synch it) and a message popped up telling me iTunes would take my iPhone back to its factory settings and that I would lose my media etc. Will I get it back? And how?
ThanksHowdy Paddy275,
I would recommend copying your library from the other computer to this one. This article will help with that:
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
The content WILL be wiped when you sync the phone. But if you have the library that has all your media in it copied over and you can see it all in iTunes, then you will need to select what to sync back over. Use this to assist with that if needed.
iOS: Syncing with iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1386
If you cannot copy the original library to your new computer, then you can always redownload your past purchases free of charge from the iTunes store.
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
All the very best,
Sterling -
I continue to try to install iTunes; when I attempt to open the newly installed iTunes, I receive errors that it was not correctly installed. I have followed the direction on this website, but I face the same error. Please help.
latest message indicates I need Apple Application Update
With the Error 2, let's try a standalone Apple Application Support install. It still might not install, but fingers crossed any error messages will give us a better idea of the underlying cause of the issue.
Download and save a copy of the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64setup.exe) installer file to your hard drive:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Download and install the free trial version of WinRAR:
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
Right-click the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64Setup.exe), and select "Extract to iTunesSetup" (or "Extract to iTunes64Setup"). WinRAR will expand the contents of the file into a folder called "iTunesSetup" (or "iTunes64Setup").
Go into the folder and doubleclick the AppleApplicationSupport.msi to do a standalone AAS install.
Does it install properly for you?
If instead you get an error message during the install, let us know what it says. (Precise text, please.) -
I recently had to wipe my computer (PC), because of virus, etc destruction, so I'm reloading programs, etc. and now my newly reinstalled ITunes account is only reading I guess the initial library that I had when first using it, so many years ago...not reading purchases or updated playlists, etc...which ARE ON MY IPOD, (classic, 30G), and very importatn for me for work because I teach dance and need my music and playlists, etc. How can I sync my IPOD to my ITUNEs library without deleting or currupting all the music on my IPOD???! HELP! Never understood why Itunes is so tricky, and don't want to destroy my IPOD music...but need to transfer the music from my IPOD to my ITUNes library!..HELP?
See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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After my PC crashed (MicroSoft blue screen of death), I had to re-format my hard drive, reinstall Windows 7, and ultimately re-install iTunes. I have over 7000 songs on my iPod and want to load them into iTunes, but iTunes tells me my iPod is synced with another library and wants to overwrite my data. How do I make this new version of iTunes accept all the info on my iPod into a new library? I have authorized this computer as one of 4 of my 5 allowed (note I have authorized this same machine 3 times due to Windows upgrades and iTunes reinstall...)
- Transfer iTunes purchases to the new computer by:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
- Transfer other music by using a third-party progtam like one of those discussed here
Copy music
- WHen everything is on your computr connect the iPod to the computer and make a backup. Do that by right clicking on the iPod under Devices in iTunes and select Back Up
- Restore the iPod from that backup
Note that the backup that iTunes makes does not contain synced media like apps and music. -
Hello everyone,my names Charlotte and I was wondering if someone could help me with my iPod not syncing to my iTunes properly.
Okay well basically,a while ago my laptop caught a virus and in the end I ended up having to reboot the whole thing.
(My OS is Windows 7 Ultimate)
However,because of this,it meant I had to download iTunes again, and so I did.
(I have the latest iTunes and iPod Touch version downloaded)
Then I found a way how to sync all my music from my iPod touch (not the 4th gen) to my laptop, so I did and put all my music and more (from albums I haven't downloaded yet e.t.c) onto my newly downloaded iTunes.
But anyway,back to the original topic. Because of downloading iTunes again and rebooting my laptop, my iPod Touch wont sync to my new iTunes and I don't know what I can do to fix this?
Another thing I did notice was on the 'Devices' option on the sidebar, it now says 'iPod Touch', instead of 'Charlotte's iPod'.
I'm really stuck on what to do because when my iPod does sync to my iTunes it says 'Syncing iPod Touch (Step 1 of 1)', when usually it should be of 4 steps, like backing up data and transferring purchases e.t.c.
Then it just finishes sync..
One thing I did do was de-authorize it and re-authorize it again as I found online that it worked for some people,.... for me it didn't. To be honest I didn't expect it to work as I thought it was just for anyone trying to hack/take away your music...but it was worth a shot anyway.
But please help!
I really want to put more songs onto my iPod
Many Thanks for reading this,
~CharlotteUpdate: I deleted all my songs in itunes and then put them back on, and then proceded to sync my ipod again which worked! the songs are being put on
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Sync Newly Installed iTunes 10.4 With Eisting Library
Hi All,
I have my library on my F Drive but my D drive died.
I have installed a new C drive and installed iTunes 10.4 onto it.
I have told iTunes in my preferences to look in the F:iTunes folder.
My iTunes 10.4 has no songs or playlists in it. How do I get it all to sync from the library into my iTunes 10.4.
All help appreciated!Hi Casper...
10.6 ?
Exactly which version of Mac OS X do you have installed?
Click your Apple icon top left in your screen then click About This Mac.
If it's anything prior to v10.6.8, click your Apple menu icon again then click Software Update...
Updating your system software may help.
/Users/casparstracke/Library/QuickTime/DesktopVideoOut.component/Contents/MacOS /DesktopVideoOut
Go to ~/Library/QuickTime. Move the files in bold print to the Desktop.
Restart your Mac, try iTunes. -
Can't sync iPod after upgrading to iTunes 11
I had a Windows XP computer with an older version of iTunes which I synced (by cable) with my iPod Classic (version 2.0). The XP computer recently crashed and I bought a Windows 8.1 computer on which I installed iTunes 11, and authorized the new computer. I managed to restore my music to the new computer from backup, but now when I sync, newly purchased tracks are not transferred to the iPod. Also I can't seem to rip from CDs anymore, the "Import" window doesn't open when I put a music CD in the drive. The tracks in my playlist purchased from iTunes have a "cloud" icon next to them, which I believe means they haven't been redownloaded to my computer but are on the iCloud servers. I don't understand iTunes 11. Does iCloud stop devices from syncing by wire? I don't want iCloud or any new features, I just want my old functions to work! Help!
Okay! Thanks! Followed the link to that threat and figured out the problem. I had moved iTunes to a sub-folder in Applications (for grouping together as a stack in the dock, something stacks should have been able to do anyway) and when it installed the new version it didn't check where the old one was, it just dropped the new one in Applications.
Everyone else who has this problem double check and make sure you don't have two different versions of iTunes: one in the applications folder and another that your dock shortcut directs to. -
As an pod newbie I'm falling at the first hurdle. I've installed itunes directly from the Apple website, but it takes over my system resources completely. I can get it to see my Ipod, but the sync option is greyed out in the menu.
Surely Itunes and Applemobiledevice cannot be that system hungry. My PC is unusable with itunes running.
I've made sure windows is up to date and I've uninstalled & re-installed itunes - all to no effect.
Help please!Try restarting the AMDS > iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: How to restart the Apple Mobile Device Service (AMDS) on Windows
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