I have 2 itunes accounts!!!! Aarrghh...Help!

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Nat1977 Author

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I have 2 itunes accounts!!!! Aarrghh...Help!

I have 2 itunes accounts. One that I set up with work when we were given ipads and the other my home account on my MAC. The work ipad now belongs to me and it is synced with my work PC. I want to be able to sync it with my home mac although if I do this I will loose all of the apps (games) that I have purchased for my son.

Is there anyway that I can get the content from this ipad onto my home mac and use it only at home and with my imac?

Thanks so much.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on May 17, 2013 3:36 AM

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jason269

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May 19, 2013 8:23 AM in response to Nat1977

Hello, Nat1977.

Thank you for the question. You can have multiple Apple ID accounts associated with one computer. You would just need to authorize your home computer and then transfer the purchases from your iPad. Once this is done all the media purchased on the iPad will be placed on your home computer. At that point you will be able to sync the media from your home computer to your iPad. Keep in mind when syncing with a new computer some application data will be lost. Below, I have provided a couple articles that walk you through this process.

iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848

Using iPhone, iPad, or iPod with multiple computers

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1202

Cheers,

Jason H.

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