Ok, thanks to Objectwerks and some fiddling on my end, I have a solution for the OP. I had an already setup iMac that was syncing with my iPhone just fine. Lots of apps, etc. I have a Touch that was set to sync with a computer that I no longer sync with. I wanted to get the Touch's data [mainly the apps] to the iMac.
Note: with many of the apps listed before, you can grab off the music/movies, etc. They don't let you grab the apps or more importantly, the data that comes with those apps [the cities you want weather reported for in your weather apps, levels finished in games, etc]. I did multiple steps, and seemed to go a few steps backwards sometimes. Oh, and Photos can be grabbed on a Snow Leopard system via Image Capture, but only photos stored on the Touch directly, not the synced ones; PhoneView might support transfering albums, but worse case he can copy them and e.mail them or upload them to a dropbox account from the Touch]. First I hooked up the Touch to the iMac. I did not allow iTunes to sync [canceled when it asked if I wanted to sync and wipe the data on the Touch with data in my iMac's iTunes]. Then, in the Devices section on the left side of iTunes, I found the Touch, right clicked on it, and selected ,"Backup" from the dropdown menu. This is different than the backup button in the summary section. Then, after that was done, I right clicked again and select, "Transfer Purchases", from the drop down. This copied all apps from the Touch [including data] that I had downloaded from the AppStore, even if they were free apps. After that was done, I went ahead and synced. By default, it filled up my Touch with music and didn't do anything to the apps, because the "sync apps" tab did not have "sync apps" checkmarked. After it was done, I went ahead and changed my music sync prefs to only include 1 playlist from my iMac. Your results will be different - using iRip by Little App Factory, you can easily grab the Touch's music and put them right back into iTunes which then syncs to the Touch. The big test at the end was clicking the "Sync Apps" section, and making sure that "Automaticlaly sync new apps" was not checkmarked [since I have a ton of apps in iTunes, but I don't keep many on my iDevices]. After clicking apply, the data was synced! The only problem I had was that it rearranged all the icons. But I took screenshots of each screen on the Touch, transfered them to the Mac via Image Capture and rearranged the apps in iTunes and all apps matched up with the screenshots! Using the Touch, I went into some of the apps, and my data was all there - game and weather prefs, etc. PhoneView seems to support multiple photo albums - worth testing that out first. It does support videos as well. The only thing it doesn't support is app transfer and iTunes seems to have that covered fairly well, via the steps above! Let me know off list if you need more details and I can help you out some tomorrow afternoon. HTH, /vjl/ _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
