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Q: recently purchaced a macbook pro and cannot transfer music,contacts,notes etc. from my iphone 4 onto my new macbook pro!! please help

Im a ex windows vista user, who evently became fed up and converted to a macbook pro. i just purchesed the macbook pro yesterday and have been trying to transfer all my music, contacts, notes, apps, etc. from my iphone 4 onto my new macbook pro. nothing seem to be working without it trying to erase all my info off of my iphone 4. I didnt think this would be a issue where they are both apple devices, but im now starting to regret the decision to purchace this macbook pro. please help me so i dont loose all my info trying to sync both devices. thanks for you help and advice

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)

Posted on Dec 22, 2012 10:28 PM

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  • by mende1,

    mende1 mende1 Dec 22, 2012 10:31 PM in response to ketchckc
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    Dec 22, 2012 10:31 PM in response to ketchckc

    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities

     

    You can only sync the iPhone with one Mac or PC, so your Mac is asking you to erase the device because you synced it with another Mac or PC. To avoid this, I recommend you to copy the "iTunes" folder of your old Mac or PC (in Music folder) to the Music folder of your Mac, so you'll have the same data on your Mac as the data you had on the PC.

     

    To transfer contacts, notes, etc., I recommend iCloud > http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/