I regularly sync my iPhone and iPad to my Mac. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that my music on my devcices were not being indexed properly. Some song titles were pointing to the wrong songs or were not pointing to any song at all. Upon further investigation, I found that the problem was in iTunes where the songs were not properly indexed.
This was my mistake as I realized that a while back I had purchased an external HD and attempted to move my iTunes library but did it incorrectly (did a straight copy). I moved my iTunes library back to its original location in my computer. When I realized that my music was still not indexed, I forced a reindexing by moving the iTunes Music Library.xml and iTunes Library.itl out of the iTunes folder (I moved them to a temp folder on my desktop.). This worked beautifully.
The big problem I know have though is when I now plug my iPhonr and iPad in it assumes that I am backing up to a new computer and wants to erase my devices.
While I think it should put back all my purchased apps if I just let it erase and creat a new sync I am not thrilled at the idea of having to reorganize all of the 100+ apps etc.
Is there a way to fix this problem? Can I copy any of the coding in the original iTunes XML to the new one?
This was my mistake as I realized that a while back I had purchased an external HD and attempted to move my iTunes library but did it incorrectly (did a straight copy). I moved my iTunes library back to its original location in my computer. When I realized that my music was still not indexed, I forced a reindexing by moving the iTunes Music Library.xml and iTunes Library.itl out of the iTunes folder (I moved them to a temp folder on my desktop.). This worked beautifully.
The big problem I know have though is when I now plug my iPhonr and iPad in it assumes that I am backing up to a new computer and wants to erase my devices.
While I think it should put back all my purchased apps if I just let it erase and creat a new sync I am not thrilled at the idea of having to reorganize all of the 100+ apps etc. Is there a way to fix this problem? Can I copy any of the coding in the original iTunes XML to the new one?