Thanks Sam, Presumably, if the iPad were connected to the PC, there would in theory be time to cancel the sync before the iPad music library was wiped? Could then the iPad music be copied back to the Windows iTunes library (or to an empty folder that iTunes could then import from)?
Phil ---- Phil Ward Skype: aphilw E: [email protected] W: philward.biz W: audio-icons.com W: peggysdiaries.wordpress.com W: soundcloud.com/philberish W: thegalleons.com W: facebook.com/thegalleons W: http://thegalleons.bandcamp.com • Freelance writer and product designer. • Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com. • Contributor to Sound on Sound magazine. On 26 Mar 2015, at 19:29, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > You can either swipe left on an artist/album name on the iPad in the music > app, or use Senuti to extract all the music from the iPad before deleting all > the music in the Settings app > General > Usage > Music (swipe left) to > delete. > > You could also copy the entire iTunes folder from the PC to the Music folder > in the home directory of a new user on a Mac, then open iTunes and see if the > mp3s are available there. > > Regards > > Sam > > > > > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen ACMT > +44 (0)7747778022 > [email protected] > www.macambulance.co.uk > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in > error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > > > On 26 Mar 2015, at 22:05, Phil Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > -- > 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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.
