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Ipod Touch Syncing help
I have had my Ipod Touch since June and I absolutely love it. I hate Itunes. It's a slow, bloated, and clunky piece of software. I use it for the bare minimum such as updates and backing up my Ipod. I Have nothing in my Itunes library and I download all apps and podcasts directly on the Ipod.
The new Itunes 9 allows app management via the PC and that would be handy. However, when I click sync it warns me that this will erase all data from my Ipod and replace it with the data in my Itunes library. I have NOTHING in my Itunes library! If I go through with this then I will lose everything on my Ipod. Right? What the hell is up with this? I just want to manage apps from the PC. It's difficult to manage 9 pages of apps on the device.
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09-19-2009, 08:45 PM
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When I sync my iPod Touch with iTunes, it will add the apps I've downloaded on the iPod into iTunes if they weren't there already. I don't think you'll lose everything, it will just synchronize iTunes so that it has everything your iPod has.
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09-19-2009, 08:57 PM
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The warning is as follows:
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09-19-2009, 09:25 PM
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I just synced my Ipod with ITunes 9, knowing I had an app that I downloaded on the iPod itself yesterday that had not been synced to iTunes yet. It moved my app onto iTunes. So I don't think you're going to lose anything, iTunes will just update itself to match your iPod.
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09-19-2009, 09:46 PM
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I'm not so sure. When I first got my Ipod I installed iTunes on my laptop and did the initial setup. My iPod knew that library as THE library it was synced with. After iTunes began to freeze every time I connected my iPod I tried reinstalling iTunes and deleting and rebuilding the (empty) library. The problem had to do with podcasts and I figured out how to resolve it but now my iPod thinks it is syncing with a new library and therefore it says everything will be erased and made to mirror the iTunes library on the PC. The original "library" that I initially synced with no longer exists so any library will be "new" to my iPod and it doesn't like that.
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09-19-2009, 11:14 PM
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I think this is what you want to do: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
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09-20-2009, 01:56 AM
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Whatever you do, backup your entire music library outside of iTunes. I don't trust Apple enough not to screw everything up in the name of DRM.
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