iTunes on 2 Mac's

ace2109 · 21 Feb 2009 at 12:58

Hi Guys,
i currently have my iPhone syncing with my iMac but a few months back i got a MacBook Pro and want to be able to sync my iPone with my MacBook Pro. The trouble is i have downloaded loads of games, apps, music and movies on my iMac and my iPhone.

How do i go about syncing my iPhone with my MacBook without loosing all my data.

ace

Vonhelmet · 21 Feb 2009 at 22:09

You can't. An Ipod can only sync to one library and if you try to sync to a different one you will indeed lose everything from the first one.

You can combine libraries in some way or other, assuming you still have the Imac, but I don't know much about that. If you have some kind of network drive or something (time capsule?) you can put the one library on there, use it on both Macs, and then sync to either and it'll work.

Will_3rd · 21 Feb 2009 at 22:15

You can sync iPods with different computers, iPhones is something else I think they are linked to just one computer AFAIK.

Vonhelmet · 21 Feb 2009 at 22:32

Will_3rd said:
You can sync iPods with different computers

Sure, but you can't sync two libraries worth of stuff at the same time. Any time you try to sync the second one it'll wipe the stuff from the first.

unknowndomain · 22 Feb 2009 at 01:03

You can turn of sync and use manual copying instead

ace2109 · 22 Feb 2009 at 11:17

Hi guys,
I just wanna start syncing with my MacBook and stop using the iMac.

I was thinking of using iTunes own backup service to backup all my purchases onto disk then move them all onto my MacBook. Then when i sync my iPhone, yes it will wipe it but i was gonna reset it anyway then reinstall all the apps

unknowndomain · 22 Feb 2009 at 14:39

Well just connect it up and it will wipe the music and start syncing data from the imac