Hey, I've got an iPad 2 that I previously synced with an older Macbook Pro. A few months ago I bought a new 2012 Classic Macbook Pro, but I haven't tried to sync my music library until now.
For some reason, instead of just being able to "assign" this iPad to my new mac, iTunes wants to erase my iPad and refill it from the library. All I want is for the music I have on my Mac to be synced to my iPad (I've gotten more new music and deleted other tracks, etc.). I was able to sync just my iPhoto library via iTunes, but every time I try to check the box to sync my music it wants me to do the full erase thing.
This wouldn't necessarily be a problem...if it didn't want to erase all my apps too. THAT wouldn't necessarily be a problem, except that iTunes on this new computer only lists on the apps tap the apps that I've bought since buying this computer, and only those I actually bought through the iTunes store on this computer. If I check "sync apps" the little window showing the apps on my iPad reverts to just the stock apps plus those few apps I just mentioned.
How do I get iTunes to back up my iPad's apps and app data, so I can just let it erase and restore the data so I can have my music on my iPad without destroying things I want to keep?
EDIT: Scratch that, as I was investigating more, I discovered I could do "transfer purchases" to get my apps onto iTunes, then an iCloud backup from my iPad, and then syncing wouldn't delete my data. Actually, I think the iCloud backup wouldn't matter because I already authorized my MBP and I don't think iTunes actually did anything with my apps, since everything in the library was already there.
For some reason, instead of just being able to "assign" this iPad to my new mac, iTunes wants to erase my iPad and refill it from the library. All I want is for the music I have on my Mac to be synced to my iPad (I've gotten more new music and deleted other tracks, etc.). I was able to sync just my iPhoto library via iTunes, but every time I try to check the box to sync my music it wants me to do the full erase thing.
This wouldn't necessarily be a problem...if it didn't want to erase all my apps too. THAT wouldn't necessarily be a problem, except that iTunes on this new computer only lists on the apps tap the apps that I've bought since buying this computer, and only those I actually bought through the iTunes store on this computer. If I check "sync apps" the little window showing the apps on my iPad reverts to just the stock apps plus those few apps I just mentioned.
How do I get iTunes to back up my iPad's apps and app data, so I can just let it erase and restore the data so I can have my music on my iPad without destroying things I want to keep?
EDIT: Scratch that, as I was investigating more, I discovered I could do "transfer purchases" to get my apps onto iTunes, then an iCloud backup from my iPad, and then syncing wouldn't delete my data. Actually, I think the iCloud backup wouldn't matter because I already authorized my MBP and I don't think iTunes actually did anything with my apps, since everything in the library was already there.
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