Apple was betting that people would pay for music if it was legal, cheap and easy. Your phone should look just like it did when you started, with no data loss.At the time, iTunes represented an ambitious attempt to wrest control of digital music back from Napster and other bootleg file-sharing services, which were causing havoc in the music industry. This MUST be followed by a sync to restore your iTunes content, which you select from the various tabs, You'll get a popup regarding your contacts & calendars asking to merge or replace, select 'Merge'. When prompted to create another backup, decline.ĩ. Right click again & select 'Restore from Backup', select the backup you just made. Right click your phone in the left device pane & select 'Reset warnings'.ħ. File>Transfer Purchases(To make sure all purchased content on your phone will be in your iTunes library).Ħ. Connect your phone, iTunes running, do not sync at this point.ĥ. These entries can be fake, doesn't matter, the important point is that these programs not be empty.ģ. Make sure you have one contact & one event in the supported applications on your computer(iCal & Address Book on a Mac, Windows Address Book or Outlook if using Windows). Disable auto sync when an iPod/iPhone is connected under iTunes>Preferences>Devices(under Edit menu if using Windows).Ģ. Once you've done that, do the following in the order specified:ġ. Past iTunes, App store, & iBookstore content can be re-downloaded. If you have photos that were synced to your phone or music ripped on your own that were not backed up, you will first have to extract them from your phone using third party software, before you do anything else, as Apple makes no provision to do so: The iTunes content sync is one way: computer to phone. Because you replaced your computer, or hard drive, your phone will see this as a 'new' computer. This is a design feature and cannot be overridden. Any attempt to sync such content with a second computer will result in ALL iTunes content being first erased from your phone & then replaced with the content from the second computer.

Again, no backup.īy design, the iPhone will sync iTunes content with one computer at a time. This is for those of you who have no backup of your current iTunes library, and are replacing the computer your phone normally syncs with or are just replacing the hard drive.

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