What does syncing do?

I really think i should hate the windows itune-software...
Yesterday i wanted to look some of my podcasts i had downloaded to my iphone, and all were gone. I had downloaded them via wifi directly to my iphone. I had synced the iphone with my pc a day before, and all podcasts are on my home-pc, but were deleted on the iphone. A software should not do this without asking me.
Also yesterday, i created a new playlist in Itunes, synced, and this playlist did not reach my iphone. I will try to read the documentation to find out how to sync correctly. Perhaps the german translation of itunes is a problem here...
Another thing is the absolutely un-windowslike interface. Windows-PCs have mices with tow, three or more buttons and the right button should be used to let windows-users feel at home.

The solution was a boring ad telling that i should create a mobileme-account... And i didn't want to create one and did seed no reason to tell the software that i dont want to do so... After telling i can see al podcast and make hooks to synchronize or not...
But there was no message in the ad telling me what i will see after that ad. Totaly unergonomic...

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My first attempt to ask a question went to cyber space which is a good indication of how little I know about my new toy, iPod touch. I keep reading about Sync & I have no idea what that means, what it does or how it works? Ta in advance

I'm a new user, what does sync mean

What does sync mean?

Anytime I plug my iphone on my MacBook Pro, it prompts me to few things I would like to understand for full usage of my iphone. Can anyone help me with please?
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How you delete content from your iPod depends how you have it set to update:
If you are updating automatically then delete the files from the iTunes library and next time you connect they will automatically be deleted from your iPod. Highlight the file and press the delete key on your keyboard, or right click and choose either Clear or Delete, depending on which version of iTunes you are using.
If you are updating manually, connect your iPod and click on the icon when it shows in the iTunes 7 source list click on the chevron > to the left of the iPod icon This will display the various icons for the iPod itself, Music, Movies, TV Shows and Playlists. Click on Music and you'll see the traditional song view. Find the files on your iPod that you want to remove, highlight them and delete directly.
To select multiple items such as all the songs in an album, click on the first track in the list hold down the shift key and click on the last track to highlight the selection. Then press the delete key.
To summarise, you start by highlighting the song/video/selection in either the iTunes library or on the iPod song list as displayed in iTunes then press the delete key on your keyboard: Deleting songs or playlists from your iPod

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My wife is afraid to attach her iPhone to the computer do to it wanting to sync with the phone. She is afraid of losing music and pictures on the phone.
Please let me know what is actually done when it syncs, so I can make her feel safe.
Thanks
Keith

Good question? How did the music and other similar type soft products get out to the iPhone.
But...
When you Sync the iPhone it takes information that you may have updated through outlook, calendar, music, etc. that you may have updated on your computer and compares and coordinates that information with that on the iPhone.
If the information is not on the iPhone but on the computer, it will move the computer information to the iPhone as an addition to the what is already on the iPhone. In the case of music, I believes that it re-writes all of the music you have designated under the music tab to the the iPhone.
It looks under the tabs indicated by:
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Music
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Podcasts
Video
and moves that information, file by file to the iPhone.
In the case of the contacts on the iPhone, it will compare the contacts on the iPhone and determine which contacts are new o and modified and moves them to the computer since you may have made entries directly into your iPhone.
It also does the same thing with the calendar. If you made entries directly into the iPhone and not on the computer it will sync the calendar from the iPhone to the computer.
The precedent of whether the change on the computer has precedent over the ones on the iPhone, if in conflict are resolved during the sync operation and the user syncing the the devices gets a choice of which data to use.
I have never lost data during the sync operation.
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You haven't started using iSync with .Mac, you're using *.Mac Sync* for which a specific Discussion forum is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=957
Your question would be better posted there.

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I am reluctant to install new options when it's not clear what they are supposed to do and what effects they may have.
I have four computers all using Thunderbird and Firefox if I install sinc what will happen to what ever is sinced when there are differences between lists etc?

Thanks.
Exactly what I was looking for.
I must have missed the explanation when I did my upgrades.
-AWL-

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Cheers,
GJ

Use an IMAP account instead which is designed for this very thing - accessing the same account with an email client on different computers or devices keeping all server stored mailboxes synchronized automatically.
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Oh My GOD!!!! Thank you soooooo much. I did what you said and Tetris, which I had been having a hard time copying to my iPod, instantly downloaded. I don't have to do this with the music do I because my kids like different music than I do and we have all our music on one library folder? Thank you again for your help. It is truly appreciated.
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hello all,
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