Hi Ronni, thanks for the link. That settles it for me, at least while I'm in the bush with no Wifi 11 days in every fortnight I have to stick with backup to my PC.
Will reconsider cloud back up later in the year when I back to civilization. Regards Pete On 19/05/2013, at 10:58 AM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5262> > > "Note: iCloud Backup does not back up music, movies, and TV shows that you > did not purchase from the iTunes Store, or any podcasts, audio books, or > photos that you originally synced from your computer. iCloud Backup will > restore your purchased music, movie, and app content from the iTunes and App > Stores during the background restore process. Previous purchases may be > unavailable if they are no longer in the iTunes Store, App Store, or > iBookstore." > > Cheers, > > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 19/05/2013, at 10:43 AM, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > >> I'm interested to understand something about using iTunes and whether by >> directing the iTunes library to a local disc (USB attached external drive) >> precludes being able to use the iCloud service. >> >> My iTunes library is around 240GB so I'm not going to pay for that much >> space in the cloud, but I'd like to potentially use iCloud for some storage >> of some items(contacts, photos, some music perhaps). >> >> I was unable to get clarity on this from the Apple site. >> >> One has the choice with iTunes to select "backup to this computer" OR "use >> iCloud" but not both. >> >> Can anyone shed any light in this for me please? >> >> Regards >> >> Pete >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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