Help needed moving iPhone content to NEW laptop

Ladygrim

Hi all, I hope someone can help me.

My old laptop crashed, so I now have a new one. I have had to install iTunes to this new laptop, now I want to move all my content FROM my iphone onto the new laptop -

Problem is, iTunes keeps wanting to move it the other way round. This would remove items off my iPhone and I would lose them!! :eek::eek::eek:

I have looked on the support pages for Apple iTunes and it only tells me how to move the content from the laptop library to the iphone, not other way round.

It also advises that ONLY items PURCHASED FROM iTunes will be moved from iphone to laptop, and doesnt offer anyhelp about moving the other stuff over - THIS IS NOT VERY HELPFUL.

Does anyone out there in techie-land know how I can safely move all my music/tv/movies/apps/photos FROM my iphone into the itunes library on my new laptop?

Please provide help in simple language - Im not very techie myself.

Thank you

LG

Handsome90

I'm afraid iPhone only lets you sync contents from one PC using iTunes. Is there anyway you could copy the iTunes folder from your old PC and paste it to your new one?

Does the hard disk in your old laptop still work?

andrewjf

Well your iPhone should be synced to the iTunes library on your current laptop, so all you need to do is copy the existing library on to your new laptop.

If you google 'copy itunes library from pc to pc' you'll get a bunch of links with information on how to do it, such as

this

Mikebellows

Have a read...

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/ontherun/how-to-copy-music-from-your-ipod-to-your-itunes-library-5615

battleborn

its called backup

Mikebellows

battleborn wrote: »

its called backup

Big help that - Hope you need some one day. :silenced:

matttye

Do you still have the CDs, DVDs etc. that you got all of your content from? If so, you could re-rip it on your new laptop. I know it's a bit of a bind but still...

Mikebellows wrote: »

Big help that - Hope you need some one day. :silenced:

He could have put it across in a slightly more sympathetic way, but his point is sound; you should always back up your data.

securityguy

This software is well spoken of: http://www.digidna.net/diskaid

battleborn

Mikebellows wrote: »

Big help that - Hope you need some one day. :silenced:

its easy as 1-2-3 or a-b-c.

googler

What 'content' is included?

If it's all music, and you got that music into iTunes from your CDs in the first place, you can re-rip the CDs again - but this time, rip them as mp3s, and import the mp3s into iTunes so that if you need to populate iTunes again, you can do so from the mp3s easily.

Are we talking some other type of content? If so, what?

As someone suggested above - if the hard drive from the old laptop is usable in a hard drive caddy, you can install iTunes on the new one, then copy the old library across.

Lifeforms

Stop making it so hard, just copy the itunes library, as posted by others!

THEN before you uninstall itunes on the old, or wipe the old laptop make sure to deactivate it, as you can only have max of 5 devices activated at one time (not apple products, aside macs, computers linked with your goodies, iphone etc)

And saying back up is useless as they already have a back up, on a different computer to the future one they want to use. Backup is backed up on that computer, not the new one. this is them wanting to get it set up on new computer to do a new backup on it, but not wipe everything.