Switching computers. How do I move my iPhone setup to a new computer?

[Craw]

Hi,

My iphone is currently set up on my work's iMac. I will be switching job positions soon and will need to move my iphone setup to either: my new position's computer (not sure if it will be pc or mac), or to a mac laptop that I will purchase in the future.

How do I go about taking my iphone setup off of my current iMac, and what will happen "in transition", where I am not sure which computer I will be setting up the iphone?

Can I just move my whole iTunes folder to a portable hard drive?

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

[meiphones_brill]

Originally Posted by Craw

Hi,

My iphone is currently set up on my work's iMac. I will be switching job positions soon and will need to move my iphone setup to either: my new position's computer (not sure if it will be pc or mac), or to a mac laptop that I will purchase in the future.

How do I go about taking my iphone setup off of my current iMac, and what will happen "in transition", where I am not sure which computer I will be setting up the iphone?

Can I just move my whole iTunes folder to a portable hard drive?

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

I would back up the whole itunes. File -> Back Up to Disk
(You should already have a backup!) and import that into your new machine.

Then plug the iPhone in. Easy - s'a Mac innit!

[Craw]

Originally Posted by meiphones_brill

I would back up the whole itunes. File -> Back Up to Disk
(You should already have a backup!) and import that into your new machine.

Then plug the iPhone in. Easy - s'a Mac innit!

Oh nice. That's great.

Thanks!!

[meiphones_brill]

Originally Posted by Craw

Oh nice. That's great.

Thanks!!

I forgot - don't forget to de-authorise your old itunes before you leave! Don't want someone having a field-day on iTunes.

[WiseMax]

Very good reminder!...

OK, I know that this is 2 years old, but...

Now, that would be lovely that I'm taught how to move my iphone sync from a Windows computer (\\systemdrive\usersfolders\myusername\music\itunes - the user folder has a diferent path in windows xp, vista and 7) to my new Mac.

I am using a program/driver that "translates" WinNT file system to Mac file system, so my Mac "undestands" perfectly whatever is in the Windows NT type folders (read AND write).

So, could I just "copy" the thing over from the Windows networked computer???

Thanks in advance!