iTunes and new laptop help please

WilliamO

On the iTunes STORE menu select the SIGN IN menu-item and log (sign) in with your AppleID username and password.....you should then see cloud symbols next to downloadable music, books, etc that you have purchased before. You may need to AUTHORISE THIS COMPUTER first though.

albionrovers

almillar wrote: »

Syncing to your iPod or iPhone is ONE WAY - TO the iDevice. It does not go from iDevice to computer.
Suzysnowball and albionrovers - you both need to copy your iTunes libaries from your old computers (it's not clear albionrovers what computer those 12 albums came from) onto your new one. You'll find a folder called 'iTunes' inside 'My Music' or 'Music' - copy the iTunes folder from this location on the old computer to the same location on the new one.

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Thanks for this but it was from the same laptop as now, just a similar problem to the OP's. I have since however created a new user but the songs do not exist under my old user - the old user's physical folders are still there but they are empty. They were also empty before i decided to create the new user. Hence the Google/Apple bug bit of my post. Grrrrr Apple! In simplest terms, why won't hitting the backup button take a simple backup to my laptop from my device to the directory that I have specified? Itunes certainly used to.

macman

iTunes only ever synched PC to device, not the other way, for obvious reasons. There are third party applications to enable device to PC synching.

albionrovers

I know. But why won't taking a backup, err, take a backup?

almillar

albionrovers - to back up your iTunes content is very simple - just copy the iTunes folder from 'My Music' or 'Music' depending on your Windows version, to an external drive.
If you do need to move stuff FROM iPod TO computer, yamipod is good for doing it.
'taking a backup' - there are umpteen ways to backup - what programme and method are you using, and how are you restoring?

macman

albionrovers wrote: »

I know. But why won't taking a backup, err, take a backup?

Backing up is not the same as synching.

albionrovers

macman wrote: »

Backing up is not the same as synching.

Eh? Is this just a random comment?