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PC Crashed - iTunes help

  • 29-08-2011 12:08am
    #1
    hick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭


    Hey folks,

    Had a problem last week, laptop went belly up, HDD issue
    luckily enough had taken a backup of the system a week previously, unfortunately it was a straight data dump. In the mean time I plugged my iphone 4 into an old pc and it synched with a year old backup :mad:

    So I have rebuilt my laptop and reinstalled iTunes, I tried to copy the itunes folder in my docs into the new system and it's not really playing ball.

    My question is, I have all the data, what's the best way of getting itunes back to where it was.

    thanks in advance peeps
    hick


Comments

  • #2
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    How is it not playing ball? If we know the problem, it might be easier to advice you on how to fix it :)


  • #3
    hick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭hick


    Ah I see yer point :D

    Basically when I copied the itunes directory from my old HDD (My music folder) and then pasted it into the new machine on top of the itunes folder there.

    When I open up itunes after, it says there is an error with the library, it will rename it as damaged and create a new library. I end up with a clean install of itunes again. When I get itunes to look for mp3/aac files I can see it searching the system (song names popping up etc) and when it finishes it appears like it hasn't picked up anything, when I click on the music tab (top left of navigation pane) it doesn't do anything.

    I'm not really too worried about the library, I can build that back up, pain in the pass that it is, what I really want to get at it the restore/bakup files for my iphone.

    Thanks for the reply and help would be great
    Cheers
    hick


  • #4
    markc1184
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭markc1184


    There is a programme called sharepod (I think) that will copy everything from you Apple device into your iTunes library. Used this when I had the similar problem as yourself. May work for you.


  • #5
    hick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭hick


    thanks for the reply, the problem is after the crach when I plugged the phone into an older machine it synced and I lost aps (not a real issue) but the data associated with aps. What I'd really like to do is take the restore file from my hdd and resynch my phone from that.

    P.S. I really can't wait till the cut the tie with itunes in IOS 5, hopefully that will be the end of all these types of issues!


  • #6
    guil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,534 ✭✭✭✭guil


    The backups are stored in c:username/appdata/ then either in local and then iTunes or roaming and then iTunes


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