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andyACEcandy
May 17, 2008, 03:32 PM
I am doing manual sync but it still says it will delete my songs and replace them with his....


I just want to get a couple songs off his itunes without deleting any of mine

Possible?



mr.light
May 17, 2008, 03:37 PM
I do not think you can do it. Why not have your friend burn a copy for you? Then you can add it to your itunes.

Ivan P
May 18, 2008, 12:15 AM
It is possible, I have my Touch set to manually manage music, and I connect it to three different computers without it trying to delete anything.

andyACEcandy
May 18, 2008, 12:38 AM
hmmmmmmm wonder what my problem is then

all the research ive done says its not possible

Ivan P
May 18, 2008, 12:50 AM
Are you sure you're not confusing it with Enable Disk Use? Because that is definitely not possible on the Touch.

sushi
May 18, 2008, 01:24 AM
It is possible, I have my Touch set to manually manage music, and I connect it to three different computers without it trying to delete anything.
Do you sync manually with those three computers?

Ivan P
May 18, 2008, 02:34 AM
Do you sync manually with those three computers?

Indeed I do. On my first touch I initially auto-synced it, but then changed it to sync manually on my home PC. After that I was able to connect it to both my sister's laptop as well as a computer at work with no problems, all my content stayed on the iPod and I could add whatever I wanted. Same circumstances with my second touch (which Apple gave as a replacement for the first). Connected it, hit "manually manage my music" and haven't had any problems connecting to different computers.

sushi
May 18, 2008, 02:49 AM
Indeed I do. On my first touch I initially auto-synced it, but then changed it to sync manually on my home PC. After that I was able to connect it to both my sister's laptop as well as a computer at work with no problems, all my content stayed on the iPod and I could add whatever I wanted. Same circumstances with my second touch (which Apple gave as a replacement for the first). Connected it, hit "manually manage my music" and haven't had any problems connecting to different computers.
Interesting.

So if you have movies; A, B, C and D, where A & B are on the Mac and C & D are on the PC, you can sync both the Mac and PC so that A, B, C and D are on the Touch while still maintaining A & B on the Mac and C & D on the PC?

If so, how do you manage the settings under movies.

How about contacts, calendars, and pictures. Have you tried this?

andyACEcandy
May 18, 2008, 04:30 AM
I did it!

just dont press sync

hook up your ipod to computer A, and click and drag the stuff you want onto your ipod on itunes.

Then go to computer B and do the same thing

nothing gets deleted

technically, you are not syncing... you're just taking his files and dragging it onto ur ipod


wooooo!