Is there any way to keep the current data/music/apps/etc on my AT&T iPhone 3G (8gb) when I hook it up to my new computer through iTunes. I really don’t want to change anything on the phone, I just want to be able to sync, add music etc with out having to start from the group up again.
The whole deal:
Recently my motherboard decided to kick the bucket, causing me to have to rebuild my computer. At the time I was running the Win7 RC(7600), and decided to start from scratch with a fresh copy of Win7 Pro. Before I formatted my hard drive and installed win7, I swapped my desktops hard drive into an external and hooked it up to my laptop.
Along with all my music, movies, pictures, documents etc, I copied all of the data out of the Program Files > iTunes, as well as all of the iTunes information in my users AppData folder and just about every other iTunes file I could find.
Am I doomed to starting my iPhone fresh again, or is there a way to “pick up” where i left off by restoring some of the files? I have yet to connect it to the computer, I don’t want to take the risk.
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From my experience with my iPod touch, my iTunes settings and library has kept in tact when copying the iTunes folder in My Music. I’m going to assume that everything will be kept if you are keeping all those folders, as those are really the only places iTunes keeps its data.