Keep App Icon layout when syncing across multiple computers

icloud storage only 5gb, I know it's good way to sync and best for backup contacts list..

But.......Have you ever tried that? Take longer than sync in your Mac/Pc...

Thanks Weilun,

I do not trust having personal info stored with apple. You cannot trust organizations today and especially when money is involved. Your solution worked great for me as well as everyone else who tried it. So unless apple make it easier for us and provide this as part of itunes, then I will just use your work around.

Thanks again.

Work like a champ!! Just tryit with my new mac mini mountain lion and my ipad

Thanks!!

Worked perfect! Thank you. KiltedTim added nothing to this thread.

Hi,

I stumbled upon this and it works.

First, the setup

iTunes 11 on 10.8.2

Backup from an iPhone 4, 6.0.1

Backed up iPhone 4 to iTunes

Plugged in iPhone 5 and synced all apps back to phone.

With all apps on phone. (without their folders), eject iPhone 5 the connect and restore from the back up of the iPhone 4 and all apps should go to their proper folders .

Of course this only works if you have the old phone. But it's the best I could come up with

This worked perfectly, thank you!!!

This makes no sense. When Apple implemented wifi sync and untethered sync they really reinforced the sync system. There's no way for you to screw the sync process by using the normal buttons or functions. There's redundancy all over the place. At this stage, the only place where you can "screw up your phone" is if you force restart or hard shutdown in the midle of a firmware update.

Don't spread voodoo fear, man. It's bad enough as it is without these veiled warnings without any base in reality.

Maybe you should pay attention to the date stamps on posts you respond to... This thread has been dead for 8 months.

What doesn't make any sense is your post...

I paid attention. Your comment is as incorrect today as it was on the day you posted it. And since nobody had explained to you that you were wrong and someone reading today might think you could have a clue, I wrote the response to make sure someone seeing your post was clear you didn't.

You're wrong and you didn't correct yourself in your error. Don't worry, I've done it for you. Nothing has changed in the last 8 months in iOS that could make your comment right, so it's still wrong and it's still useful for others to understand this, so they know the advice above, while it may not fix their problems, won't "screw up their phones".

What crappy phones we'd have if unlocking them could screw them up. And how bad could Apple program them if they allowed it to be screwed so easily without even a warning.

You haven't corrected anything. You're spouting complete nonsense. Your posting makes absolutely no sense at all in the context of this thread.

Eduardo Gutierrez De O. wrote:

You're wrong and you didn't correct yourself in your error. Don't worry, I've done it for you. Nothing has changed in the last 8 months in iOS that could make your comment right, so it's still wrong and it's still useful for others to understand this, so they know the advice above, while it may not fix their problems, won't "screw up their phones".

For someone who'd been a forum member for as long as you have, you certainly haven't learned very much, including manners.

Let me see, who would I believe if I were asking this question? You, who've been a member for years but have no track record at providing useful answers or Kilted Tim who does? Hmmm....

My experience in the forums doesn't reflect my experience in real life, nor the years I have in my back providing support for macs or in general.

My goal wasn't being polite but correcting a piece of voodoo that had no basis in reality, regardless of Kilted Tim's experience in the forums. I was sent the link to his comment by someone looking for a fix to a problem and saw it hadn't been corrected. As the person who asked me had been confused and scared by the comment, others might have been or might be in the future. Since his "warning" has no basis in reality and is not sustained by evidence I thought I should call him on it, since he hadn't been decent enough to do so himself since he posted it.

I don't need you to believe me. My point was only to make sure whomever read the bad piece of advice knew it might be questionable and investigated a bit further.

Incorrect. I'm replying to your message and your message alone. And in the context of that message it does, indeed, make sense.

It might be irrelevant to the larger post but you're providing a voodoo piece of advice that flies against reality and evidence and that voodoo is indeed related to the thread. I'm correcting you and your warning and error.

Since the point for my response is not that you care for it (I knew you would, from the tone of the initial warnings and not having corrected them) but that random people reading your advice at least see that it might be incorrect and know they CANNOT screw their iphones up (something I see as spouting complete nonsense).

You don't know how to read things in context, do you? Don't bother to answer. It's obviousl you don't.

Of course I do, but since the context you're choosing to focus on is not the one I came to comment on but an attempt at a distraction from the actual point I'm making, I'm choosing to ignore it, exactly as you're doing with mine.