Restore iTunes from iPod Touch

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Restore iTunes from iPod Touch

Maybe I'm missing something, but I haven't been able to find an answer to this.

The computer my daughter uses lost it's hard drive and had no backups (yeah, I know). Unfortunately, this means that she now has an iPod Touch that's got all kinds of music, photos, apps, app data and whatnot that is not present in her brand-new iTunes library, and iTunes only copies TO the iPod.

Is there a way to do a reverse-sync, replacing everything in the iTunes library with the contents of her iPod? (I know about Senuti, but that only does music and nothing else.)

17" MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 22, 2010 12:54 PM

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Answer 1

varjak paw

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Jul 22, 2010 1:42 PM in response to thomas_r.

Check out this post from Zevoneer for some additional iPod media recovery options:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10570955#10570955

Regards.

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thomas_r. Author

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Jul 22, 2010 4:22 PM in response to varjak paw

None of those, that I can find, have any mention of restoring apps... just music, videos and, in one or two cases, photos. You'd think nobody's using apps!

Any other ideas?

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Answer 3

Jul 22, 2010 4:35 PM in response to thomas_r.

I believe that apps can be re-downloaded for free as long as you're logged into your same iTunes account (but you can't do this with music or video content).

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thomas_r. Author

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Jul 22, 2010 4:39 PM in response to rockmyplimsoul

Yeah, but the data can't be re-downloaded. She's got some games with a lot of play data, some HanDBase databases, etc.

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Answer 5

Jul 22, 2010 4:40 PM in response to thomas_r.

Nothing is going to recover the game data, nothing. Chalk that up as one of life's tough lessons for not backing things up.

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thomas_r. Author

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Jul 22, 2010 5:05 PM in response to rockmyplimsoul

That's just stupid. The data is sitting there on the iPod. I've gotta say, I'm a big Apple fan, been using Macs since 1984, constantly defend them against detractors... but they really dropped the ball on this one if the only option to get the iPod synced again is to delete all existing data.

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Answer 7

thomas_r. Author

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Jul 26, 2010 9:19 AM in response to thomas_r.

Is there really no answer? I've been able to reverse-sync every Palm device I've had, replacing the computer's data with the Palm's, for ten years. Surely if Apple hasn't provided this functionality, someone has! Right?

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thomas_r. Author

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Jan 15, 2011 1:48 PM in response to thomas_r.

Not even remotely answered, but I'm tired of looking at its ugly face in My Questions.

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