Update: DO NOT DO THIS! This process kept the photos, but lost the music :(
My wife's laptop crashed so we found a spare computer for her. Being the optimistic sort I installed itunes and plugged in her iphone thinking "it will just copy the music/photo collection from the iphone". Does it my rear end!
I cannot believe Apple make it so hard, Apple make it impossible - there is just no way to update your computer from your iphone. Syncing offers to wipe out your iphone! How hard can it be! I am just speechless.
At least there is no way to do it *officially*.
Long story short you need to:
- use itunes to backup the iphone (it will do this even if you haven't synced it - right click on the phone under devices and choose "Back Up") - jailbreak your iphone (which luckily I had done on a previous iphone) - install ftp - copy all the data manually onto the new computer - sync
Lame lame lame.
And yes, jailbreaking does prevent the iphone being upgraded to v3.0 when it rolls out, but I don't really care because co-incidentally a shiny new one will be arriving tomorrow courtesy of the fact it was dropped last week and the 7 or 8£ a month I pay to o2 insurance :)
My wife's laptop crashed so we found a spare computer for her. Being the optimistic sort I installed itunes and plugged in her iphone thinking "it will just copy the music/photo collection from the iphone". Does it my rear end!
I cannot believe Apple make it so hard, Apple make it impossible - there is just no way to update your computer from your iphone. Syncing offers to wipe out your iphone! How hard can it be! I am just speechless.
At least there is no way to do it *officially*.
Long story short you need to:
- use itunes to backup the iphone (it will do this even if you haven't synced it - right click on the phone under devices and choose "Back Up") - jailbreak your iphone (which luckily I had done on a previous iphone) - install ftp - copy all the data manually onto the new computer - sync
Lame lame lame.
And yes, jailbreaking does prevent the iphone being upgraded to v3.0 when it rolls out, but I don't really care because co-incidentally a shiny new one will be arriving tomorrow courtesy of the fact it was dropped last week and the 7 or 8£ a month I pay to o2 insurance :)
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