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Q: After uploading all music to iCloud can i delete the music from my laptop?

Hello!  My first visit, and hope I am doing this correctly.

I have two two questions.


1: Having uploaded all of my music to iCloud and iMatch, from Laptop running Windows Vista, to iPad and iphone 3GS can I safely remove the music from my Laptop and just recall it from 'Cloud and Match' as required?  Rhereby saving memory on my laptop.

 

2:  When uploading my music to iCloud and iMatch I noticed that allmusic was removed from iphone, thereby, freeing up memory BUT the music remains on my iPad at all times.  How can I get the music to sit in the cloud and not on my ipad?

 

Thanking you, you clever ones!

iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 5.1.1, I also use an iPhone 3GS

Posted on Jul 10, 2012 11:46 AM

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  • by Winston Churchill,Helpful

    Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Jul 10, 2012 12:00 PM in response to schnuppy
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    Jul 10, 2012 12:00 PM in response to schnuppy

    Welcome to the Apple Community.

    You can remove the content from the laptop, but if anything in iTunes match is removed from the iTunes store, you won't be able to redownload it. Hopefully such instances will be minimal.
    Payout can delete anything on the iPad by swiping it and tapping the delete button. I'm not sure why it left everything on the iPad when you turned on iTunes match, it did that on my iPhone too the first time, I can't recall what I did, but it was removed at some point.
  • by schnuppy,

    schnuppy schnuppy Jul 10, 2012 12:20 PM in response to Winston Churchill
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    Jul 10, 2012 12:20 PM in response to Winston Churchill

    Winston, you are a joy!  Thank you for the welcome.


    What is 'Payout'? Do I have it on my ipad? 

     

    (btw ... this 'payout' thingie, can I use it, annomously, on my next shopping spree? errrrr ...just asking )


  • by Winston Churchill,

    Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Jul 10, 2012 12:27 PM in response to schnuppy
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    Jul 10, 2012 12:27 PM in response to schnuppy

    Mmmm, that was meant to say 'You', that's predictive text for you.