Itunes and new laptop

[JohnSW20]

Hi

Can anyone help?

The hard drive in my laptop died and now have a new one, but if I sync the Ipod it will wipe everything. I had loads of CD's I put on so they where not from itunes.

The question is how do I keep all of the stuff on my Ipod and be able to sync new stuff.

Cheers

John

[Meeja]

JohnSW20 said:

Hi

Can anyone help?

The hard drive in my laptop died and now have a new one, but if I sync the Ipod it will wipe everything. I had loads of CD's I put on so they where not from itunes.

The question is how do I keep all of the stuff on my Ipod and be able to sync new stuff.

Cheers

John

Not an iPod expert, but I believe you can connect your iPod, and don't use iTunes - treat your iPod as a normal external flash drive - and copy the contents onto your new machine.

Then you could re-import the tracks back onto your new laptop/iTunes setup.

Someone with greater knowledge than me will be along shortly......

[[AJ]]

I have used Senuti in the past and it works well. I think there are both Mac and Windows versions/equivalents.

[GTIR]

I did this the other day, go into Preferences and disable auto syncing then you can transfer your stuff manually.

I actually did lose all my music but luckily my daughter as the same music on her ipod so I was saved!

[Blue Meanie]

back up your data, people... Please, it will stop all the nonsense people have regarding lost data, and failed drives!

I believe sharepod will sort you out.

[JohnSW20]

Thanks for the advise I'll try them all

John

[Meeja]

Blue Meanie said:

back up your data, people...

^^^ This.

I am usually one of the first to ask people why they hadn't got backups of their music/photos/videos etc when they talk about hard drives failing.

Yet just before Christmas, a 250gB USB drive of mine that had music/photos/videos on failed without warning - a couple of desperate attempts to recover it, but to no avail.

Thought I had lost the lot, but then discovered that for some reason I had backed the data up onto my work PC about three months previously... so the amount of actual lost data was minimal.... but it served as a warning to me.

[chris.mapey]

If you arre using Windows it's very easy (assuming you enabled disk usage on the ipod previously).

Create a folder on your desktop to contain all the contents of the iPod.

Go into files & folders settings and enable "view hidden files"

Connect iPod & IGNORE itunes.

Go to my computer and browse the iPod.

There will be a series of hidden files that contain the music - copy these to the folder you created on the desktop, and when transfer completed, disconnect the ipod.

Open itunes and use the "Add folder to library" option, and choose the folder that's on your desktop.

Job done and you can resync your ipod as normal once the contents have been reinstated back to itunes.

HTH

Chris

[JohnSW20]

Thanks to all for your help I have now sorted it thanks to podshare

John