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Manually Manage Music/ Videos with multiple computers

I recently got a new iphone 4s and when it was set up I made sure the manually manage music part was on, I added my music and everything worked fine.


I'm abroad now and wanted to delete and change some of my music but the manually manage box is no longer ticked and I get the warning saying "Your phone is Synced with another iTunes Library do you want to erase this iphone and sync with this itunes libary". How can I get around this I dont want to lose all my music!!!!


Please Help!

Posted on Dec 5, 2012 11:14 PM

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Dec 6, 2012 2:14 AM in response to Lukek07

By design, an iPhone will sync or manually manage iTunes content with one computer at a time. Any attempt to sync or manually manage with a second computer will result in all iTunes content being first erased from your phone, to be replaced with the content from the second computer. This is a design feature of all iPhones and cannot be overridden. Been like this since the first iPhone was released.

Dec 6, 2012 2:53 AM in response to Lukek07

Lukek07 wrote:


"Your phone is Synced with another iTunes Library do you want to erase this iphone and sync with this itunes libary".

As the message infers, you can only sync your iDevice to

a single iTunes library. The only way around this, which is

of no real use to you now but for future reference, is to have

your iTunes library (entire iTunes folder) an a separate hard

drive and carry it around where ever you go. Any computer

you have will need to be set up to connect its iTunes to that

library.


The one caveat of this is that is backups of the iDevice.

Each computer will have a different backup file depending on

when you synced to the computers (backups are stored

in ~/Library/Application Support/Mobile Sync/ Backup on

the computer not in iTunes library). Where this is problematic

is if you need to do a restore and you only have a computer

available with an old backup and not the most recent.

The other problem will be if you manage Address Book, Calendars,

etc. different on different computers. Things can get jumbled, lost,

or just plain add duplicates.


As for your current situation, there really isn't much you can do.

Manually Manage Music/ Videos with multiple computers

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