Transfering purchases and syncing to muliple devices

Good day all, recently i have transfered my CEOs library all to an external drive. Everything is fine until the syncing, my question is he usually purchases a lot of stuff from the app store. Now that he has an ipad and iphone, when he connects any of these devices to sync, it is givng him that message saying that in order to sync it must erase all content. What is the solution for this problem. Anything would help..thank guys

Did you have to "rebuild" the library after the transfer? I've a feeling you are using a "new" library database in the usual location, ..\<User's Music>\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl instead of the database in the folder you moved to the external. To connect to a different library click the icon to launch iTunes and immediately press and hold down the shift key, keep holding untils asked to Choose or Create a library, click choose and browse to the new location. If I'm right this library will happily sync with the devices without the threat that media will be removed.
I'm assuming, since you already have all the media, that rebuilding that wouldn't be the end of the world, but if apps and their data are removed you may permanently lose important information. This process should work.
Using Edit > Preferences > Devices, tick Disable automatic syncing of iPods, iPhones, and iPads.
Connect device
Right-click on device and select Back Up
Right-click on device and select Restore
However that will require patience. Restoring the previous iTunes libraray database and hooking it up to the media will be the prefered route.
If you can't find the original library from before you started the transfer you might find the process in this thread useful.
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