For example, erase iPod touch before you sell it or give it away. If you want to save your content and settings, back up iPod touch before erasing it. You can erase iPod touch from Settings.
When iPod touch restarts with all content and settings erased, you have the option to set up iPod touch as new or restore it from a backup. Get more of our great Apple tips, tricks, and important news delivered to your inbox with the OSXDaily newsletter. It must have something to do with their greed! If I was to back my iPhone up first then did this synch would I then be able to just restore my old back up after I set it so I can manually put music on my phone.
It is still annoying as hell. I accidentally deleted the itunes library file, and now I cannot manage my iphone music manually, unless I delete all songs and start from scratch.
Go to hell, iTunes. This is so annoying… Even after updating anyway to I also had some iCloud music that could not get erased. So iPhone mp3s are uptodate now, just iTunes shows greyed out iPhone content.
I did exactly as above but instead it took what was on my iPhone and replaced that with my library on my iTunes pc. I lost over songs. How do I get this back? I uploaded all my old CDs to my iTunes library. Please help! Just wanted to leave a comment and say thank you!
I even called customer service before reading this. I would like to add that, as you said, when you sync, only the music library is removed. I need to turn in my iPhone because the glass is cracked, and I really wanted to save those PDF documents. Greatly relieved that this worked. Got a new ipad a few months ago. Set it up via itunes but every time I connect to my laptop to add a new movie or anything, I get this message.
Completely erases everything from itunes and I have to start from scratch. Hate itunes. Apple does many things well so when that trip up like this it is always a bit of a shock.
Thank you SO much! My original back up was on my old laptop and my new back up on my new laptop. As stated the only thing it erased was my music on my phone, which there was none and started to sync my new iTunes music.
It still gets rid of it, and then will even revert to not allow you to manually control it. Repeat this process for all the folders on the desktop. Melissa King began writing in She spent three years writing for her local newspaper, "The Colt," writing editorials, news stories, product reviews and entertainment pieces. She is also the owner and operator of Howbert Freelance Writing.
By Melissa King. Note: To preserve the audio files on your device, make sure this box is checked before you plug in an iPod, iPhone, or iPad. Note: To preserve the audio files on your device, make sure this box is checked before you plug in an iPod or iPhone. To back up the audio files stored on your iPod or iPhone and restore them to a new or recently reformatted computer or hard drive, see Apple Support's How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer.
Note: To back up audio files in the iTunes music library and the library itself, the Apple article instructs you to save the entire iTunes folder to the iPod.
However, this will not work if the iPod is more than half full. Two files in the iTunes folder store various attributes about the music files not stored in ID3 tags:.
0コメント