Trouble synching to a new computer

I cannot seem to sync my ipad to my new laptop without iTunes threatening to delete all of my information. It's been synched to my old desktop many times, and I have home sharing turned on, but it doesn't seem like it's helping. (Unless I completely misunderstood what homesharing is). What should I do?!

Launch iTunes on the new laptop. From the menu bar click Store / Authorize This Computer.
Now try syncing.
It's not a Home sharing issue.
More information here > iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer

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Welcome to Apple Discussions.
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To copy an iTunes library from an old computer to a new one FIRST make sure iTunes is not running, then copy the iTunes folder (in My Music on XP) or a backup of it to the Music folder on the new computer. You need the whole iTunes folder, as the database that indexes playlists is the "iTunes Library" file in the iTunes folder.
Then you launch iTunes. It should see the library and all of your playlists if you copied the right folder and put it in the right place (I know, I just did this a week ago, and I was moving from XP to OS X). Then authorize the new computer to the SAME iTunes store account as the old computer and the iPhone.
Now you can sync and it should not erase anything. You will have to reconfirm your iTunes Store profile to verify that it is really you on the new computer.
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Hello,
Hoping that someone could help me. My computer recently caught a virus and I was not able to back up my hard drive. I lost ALL of my information including all of my songs on my library. Now that I have a new computer, I want to put all of the songs on my iPod into the new library but I get a message that reads something like this "your ipod belongs to a different library, would you like to erase your ipod to match this library" I of course said no because then I would end up with zero songs. Has anyone else had this issue before?
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Check out the instructions/suggestions here.
Music from iPod to computer.
There's also another method. I've successfully tested this across several different Windows PCs.
Open iTunes and select edit/preferences/advanced/general. Put a check mark in the box marked "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" and also "keep iTunes music folder organized", then click 'ok'.
Connect the iPod whilst holding down the shift/ctrl keys to prevent any auto sync, and if you see the dialogue window asking if you want to sync to this itunes library, click 'no'.
Then go to file/add folder, open 'my computer', select your iPod and click 'ok'.
The music files should transfer to your iTunes.
If this doesn't work (and it may not because officially it's not supposed to), there's Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music and playlists etc from iPod back to the computer. However, it does not transfer playcounts/ratings etc.
The above methods may depend on what version of iTunes you are running.
If none of these methods work, try CopyPod which also supports the transfer of videos from iPod to computer.

Had an old ipod with all my songs on some years ago now says i cannot synch with my new computer and new apple account do not want to lose all my songs how do i get them on my new comp pl

Hi had old ipod with old large library on have lost my old itunes account so opened a new one but i cannot get my library onto my new comp help!! pl

The music you purchased with the old iTunes account is tied to that account. You need to obtain the ID and password for that account. The following provides instructions.
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Once you get the accountinoformation you can transfer the the iTunes purchased stuff to the new computer by:
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Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

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I Transferred Itunes from old PC using external hard drive. Once imported to new computer, the playlists with all my songs are there but they won't play. iTunes states can't locate original file. Is there a quick solution to this?
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Did you copy your entire iTunes library? By default this will have been C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes - you need to copy everything in this folder to C:\Users\username\Music\iTunes on your new PC. The contents of this folder should be:
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iTunes Library Extras.itdb
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