All, A friend of mine has a 16G iPad 2 with a problem: it's full (mostly I think with photos and music). Now, of course this normally wouldn't be a problem; we'd simply connect the iPad to "parent" iTunes account, edit the data and sync. There's a snag however, well more than one...
First, the iTues account to which the iPad syncs is installed on an old and unreliable Windows laptop that doesn't always behave itself. It's not really certain what will happen when the iPad and Windows machine are connected. Second, after one past episode of misbehaviour all the music stored in the Windows iTunes app was deleted. Third the music stored on the iPad is wanted (or at least some of it is), but if the iPad is connected to the Windows machine an automatic sync will delete it (because the iPad will "see" an empty iTunes library). It's possible I know to delete photos locally on the iPad but as far as I'm aware it's not possible to delete music locally, and too much music is I think the main problem. So what's the best strategy here (the iPad is on iOS 6.x and can't update 'cause it doesn't have any free memory)? All suggestions gratefully received. The aim is to free some space on the iPad (while not losing the music), re-populate the Windows iTunes library with the music (and delete what's not wanted), re-sync the iPad, and update it to iOS 8. Thanks Phil PS. The strategy that begins, "dump the old Windows laptop and get a MacBook" is one I'm already working on :-) --- Sent on the move...... Phil Ward Skype: aphilw E: [email protected] W: www.philward.biz W: audio-icons.com W: peggydiaries.wordpress.com W: www.thegalleons.com • Freelance writer and product designer. • Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com. • Contributor to Sound on Sound magazine. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
