For the life of me I can't figure this out and hope someone knows... I took my wife's ipod touch and loaded a few shows on it from computer A. I want to load those shows from the ipod onto computer B, but everytime I try I get the warning message "all existing content on the ipod will be removed and replaced with playlists from your itunes library". I already have different shows on computer B that I don't want to loose. How do I only transfer stuff from the ipod to another computer? I have the home sharing thing on, and both computers are authorized. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
It should say that itunes has detected content on your ipod that isn't on your computer do you want to copy them onto your computer. But if it isn't saying that then you could just copy and paste the file from my documents onto an external hard drive or something and put them on to computer B and import the shows into itunes.
There is an option in the preferences somewhere that you can turn off to prevent that from happening... I'm not at my home computer now, and don't remember what it was. Doing a google search should result in finding your answer pretty quickly, as this has been bugging people for YEARS. And yet Apple has never deemed it necessary to turn this 'feature' off right out of the box... I wonder why...
Here you go: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1202 Or, if you're using PC's: http://www.ismashphone.com/2009/05/how-to-sync-your-iphone-to-multiple-computers.html Or, a commercial solution: http://my.smithmicro.com/win/tuneranger/ Cheers, Ian
I finally found it! Under the itunes file menu, click on "transfer purchases from ipod" and that syncs all items from the ipod that aren't on the computer. Don't know why I didn't see that before. Thanks for the tips.
Otherwise download a application called "SharePod". It's freeware and transfers everything on a iPhone/iPod
