Itunes question
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aquaknight
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You should be able to just manually re-download each App using the same login, and you shouldn't be charged. If you want to do a 'all-in-one' shot, there's no way I know of...
stdreb27
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Originally Posted by bionicarm
http:///forum/post/3295659
When you sync up your phone to the new version of ITunes, it should put all the apps on your phone back onto your new drive. The sync goes both ways if I recall.
I thought apple just does a push from the computer to the phone?
http:///forum/post/3295659
When you sync up your phone to the new version of ITunes, it should put all the apps on your phone back onto your new drive. The sync goes both ways if I recall.
I thought apple just does a push from the computer to the phone?
blackjacktang
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what ive heard you have to have you iphone packed up on it, if not you have to re-download everything again like what aquaknight said
scsinet
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Once you've gotten iTunes reinstalled after fixing the computer, click Store>Authorize This Computer. Enter your itunes userid/pwd and click OK. It'll give you a message saying you've authorized 2 out of 5 PCs, which for most people is no problem.
Connect your phone and do a sync, everything will straighten itself out (app-wise that is).
Connect your phone and do a sync, everything will straighten itself out (app-wise that is).
stdreb27
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Originally Posted by SCSInet
http:///forum/post/3295860
Once you've gotten iTunes reinstalled after fixing the computer, click Store>Authorize This Computer. Enter your itunes userid/pwd and click OK. It'll give you a message saying you've authorized 2 out of 5 PCs, which for most people is no problem.
Connect your phone and do a sync, everything will straighten itself out (app-wise that is).
See that is the thing, I've done that, but when I click sync apps it throws a warning saying it is going to push all the apps from the computer to the phone. And will overwrite the phone's apps. And there are no apps in the computer's iTunes.
scsinet
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It shouldn't do that... weird.
The thing about iTunes that I absolutely hate is that it's a one-way kind of app... stuff goes from iTunes to the phone, but going the other way is usually very painful. If you lose your itunes installation, usually the easiest thing to do is to wipe the device and start over. It's a pathetic piece of software... typical Apple BS... "It does what it does, we control everything, if you don't like the way the software works, you must be doing it wrong" kind of attitude.
Anyhoo, I don't know how many apps you have, but provided you didn't jailbreak your phone, it should work out. If not, you may need to just use the store to re-install the apps.
The thing about iTunes that I absolutely hate is that it's a one-way kind of app... stuff goes from iTunes to the phone, but going the other way is usually very painful. If you lose your itunes installation, usually the easiest thing to do is to wipe the device and start over. It's a pathetic piece of software... typical Apple BS... "It does what it does, we control everything, if you don't like the way the software works, you must be doing it wrong" kind of attitude.
Anyhoo, I don't know how many apps you have, but provided you didn't jailbreak your phone, it should work out. If not, you may need to just use the store to re-install the apps.
mrdc
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Originally Posted by SCSInet
http:///forum/post/3295956
but going the other way is usually very painful. If you lose your itunes installation, usually the easiest thing to do is to wipe the device and start over. It's a pathetic piece of software... typical Apple BS....
Thumbs up to that!!! I love my ipods when everything is working properly but DAMN them when something messes up. I have started over many times. I keep a backup on an external 2tb hard drive that I keep for a lot of things. Plus I did a jailbreak on one of them and it has caused a problem or 100.
http:///forum/post/3295956
but going the other way is usually very painful. If you lose your itunes installation, usually the easiest thing to do is to wipe the device and start over. It's a pathetic piece of software... typical Apple BS....
Thumbs up to that!!! I love my ipods when everything is working properly but DAMN them when something messes up. I have started over many times. I keep a backup on an external 2tb hard drive that I keep for a lot of things. Plus I did a jailbreak on one of them and it has caused a problem or 100.
scsinet
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Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3296000
well I agree, but that touch screen is just sooo dang cool. Maybe I can figure out what file the app database is in, and swap out the file. And fool it. I think I have a backup of that folder somewhere.
It sounds like the HDD that "crashed" is still intact, so this can be done if that is the case. If you formatted the hard drive and reinstalled your OS, you are SOL as far as this procedure is concerned, unless you have a backup like you said. This is why when I suffer an OS crash, I usually replace the HDD regardless, so that I have options to recover data off the old drive.
I'm working from memory here... so you may need to read between the lines and figure out anything I missed.
You need to access the old drive on the new system somehow, I know you know how to work this part out.
On your present system, I assume you have run itunes already. So you need to clear it out, or rather, back it up. Close iTunes if it's open. Open up your user folder and browse into [my music] and rename the itunes folder to something else like itunes.old, so your itunes config is backed up but not gone... useful in case something happens.
On the old hard drive, open [c:users] (if Vista or later) or [c:documents and settings] (if XP). Browse into the YOUR_USER_NAMEmy music, and copy the itunes folder to the location where you renamed the itunes folder earlier. This folder contains the main databases, the *.itdb files, as well as your music downloads provided you haven't messed with the default folder locations in itunes on the old computer.
Restart itunes, and re-authorize your computer (may be unnecessary). It should have everything there, and it should know about your phone, apps, and previous sync settings.
http:///forum/post/3296000
well I agree, but that touch screen is just sooo dang cool. Maybe I can figure out what file the app database is in, and swap out the file. And fool it. I think I have a backup of that folder somewhere.
It sounds like the HDD that "crashed" is still intact, so this can be done if that is the case. If you formatted the hard drive and reinstalled your OS, you are SOL as far as this procedure is concerned, unless you have a backup like you said. This is why when I suffer an OS crash, I usually replace the HDD regardless, so that I have options to recover data off the old drive.
I'm working from memory here... so you may need to read between the lines and figure out anything I missed.
You need to access the old drive on the new system somehow, I know you know how to work this part out.
On your present system, I assume you have run itunes already. So you need to clear it out, or rather, back it up. Close iTunes if it's open. Open up your user folder and browse into [my music] and rename the itunes folder to something else like itunes.old, so your itunes config is backed up but not gone... useful in case something happens.
On the old hard drive, open [c:users] (if Vista or later) or [c:documents and settings] (if XP). Browse into the YOUR_USER_NAMEmy music, and copy the itunes folder to the location where you renamed the itunes folder earlier. This folder contains the main databases, the *.itdb files, as well as your music downloads provided you haven't messed with the default folder locations in itunes on the old computer.
Restart itunes, and re-authorize your computer (may be unnecessary). It should have everything there, and it should know about your phone, apps, and previous sync settings.
stdreb27
Active Member
Originally Posted by SCSInet
http:///forum/post/3296051
It sounds like the HDD that "crashed" is still intact, so this can be done if that is the case. If you formatted the hard drive and reinstalled your OS, you are SOL as far as this procedure is concerned, unless you have a backup like you said. This is why when I suffer an OS crash, I usually replace the HDD regardless, so that I have options to recover data off the old drive.
I'm working from memory here... so you may need to read between the lines and figure out anything I missed.
You need to access the old drive on the new system somehow, I know you know how to work this part out.
On your present system, I assume you have run itunes already. So you need to clear it out, or rather, back it up. Close iTunes if it's open. Open up your user folder and browse into [my music] and rename the itunes folder to something else like itunes.old, so your itunes config is backed up but not gone... useful in case something happens.
On the old hard drive, open [c:users] (if Vista or later) or [c:documents and settings] (if XP). Browse into the YOUR_USER_NAMEmy music, and copy the itunes folder to the location where you renamed the itunes folder earlier. This folder contains the main databases, the *.itdb files, as well as your music downloads provided you haven't messed with the default folder locations in itunes on the old computer.
Restart itunes, and re-authorize your computer (may be unnecessary). It should have everything there, and it should know about your phone, apps, and previous sync settings.
I cloned the drive onto a spare I had laying around. Then accessed and recovered the data from that. Fortunately I got almost all my data back, except one PST file, but I had that backed up offsite.
http:///forum/post/3296051
It sounds like the HDD that "crashed" is still intact, so this can be done if that is the case. If you formatted the hard drive and reinstalled your OS, you are SOL as far as this procedure is concerned, unless you have a backup like you said. This is why when I suffer an OS crash, I usually replace the HDD regardless, so that I have options to recover data off the old drive.
I'm working from memory here... so you may need to read between the lines and figure out anything I missed.
You need to access the old drive on the new system somehow, I know you know how to work this part out.
On your present system, I assume you have run itunes already. So you need to clear it out, or rather, back it up. Close iTunes if it's open. Open up your user folder and browse into [my music] and rename the itunes folder to something else like itunes.old, so your itunes config is backed up but not gone... useful in case something happens.
On the old hard drive, open [c:users] (if Vista or later) or [c:documents and settings] (if XP). Browse into the YOUR_USER_NAMEmy music, and copy the itunes folder to the location where you renamed the itunes folder earlier. This folder contains the main databases, the *.itdb files, as well as your music downloads provided you haven't messed with the default folder locations in itunes on the old computer.
Restart itunes, and re-authorize your computer (may be unnecessary). It should have everything there, and it should know about your phone, apps, and previous sync settings.
I cloned the drive onto a spare I had laying around. Then accessed and recovered the data from that. Fortunately I got almost all my data back, except one PST file, but I had that backed up offsite.