Am I going to have a problem losing all my ipod info when I get a new computer?

Question

Sounds like a lot of people have wiped out thier ipods by accident when they went to hook it up to a newley purchased computer. Any suggestions?

I wish I had this info before I made such an expensive purchase. You'd figure you would be able to do such a simple task. I mean people do get new computers. *Sigh* thanks for the advice

Answer 1

Ussually, yes. But there's a way to avoid that.
When you first plug in your iPod to the computer, in iTunes a little pop-up box will appear, asking if you will 'Erase & Sync'. Press on 'cancel'.

Then, on the 'Summary' page of the iPod, tick the box next to where it says 'Manually manage music and videos'. Then press apply.

After that, you select the songs you want in your iPod, and drag them to to the 'iPod' section (under 'devices')

The only problem with this is that you have to place your music into the iPod manually. If you have a large iPod, (less than half of the iPod's capacity is being used) you can carry backups of your music files inside your iPod.

Tick the box next to 'enable disk use' in iPod 'summary'. Go to 'My Computer', and open up your iPod as a file. Go to 'notes', and copy your iTunes library (found in 'My Music') into the 'notes' file. When you connect your iPod to another computer, place all your songs in it first, and then you don't lose any music files.

Answer 2

I've seen people recommend a program called iDump for copying songs back to your computer. It's a free program. I haven't used it, though, but a lot of people have said it has worked for them. You might have some luck with that. Just do a search for iDump.

Another thing you could do is back up all of your songs onto a few CD's and transfer them that way. Just write them to a disc as a data CD, and they'll stay as mp3's. Then put the CD's into the new computer and copy them to the hard drive of the new computer.

Answer 3

Unless you can get all the same songs from your old library to a new one, all your stuff is going to be lost.