iPhone "Spring Clean"

A Silly Title, I know

Basically I'm getting a new hard drive tomorrow and i'm going to need to transfer my music collection to it. It made me think that what I could potentially do is use a 3rd party program (Sharepod springs to mind) to copy the music from the iPhone 4s I own directly to the new hard drive, load iTunes and re-sync as I suspect that iTunes may well assume my new hard drive means a new computer.

I've got all the necessary backups just in case - the iTunes database, the iCloud backups e.t.c., so I was wondering if there would really be any major benefit of doing a full restore when the phone is running perfectly fine?

Could it potentially free up any space?

I'm perfectly happy to just transfer the library over and not touch the phone at all, but if there's anything, however minor, to be gained from doing such a 'spring clean' then I'm certainly up for doing it.

(Oh, and hello forum )

 

thanks

I've got a 64gb 4s and i've got about 3gb free overall, mainly as i have 55gb's of music on it ..

I suppose i'm thinking along the lines of any possible cached files or temporary files left over or anything like that.

I think the whole operation would be relatively straightfoward though, since i've got the important stuff backed up to iCloud.

 

oohh nice, thanks for that. might save me some work

 

just thought i'd pop back and say it did end up clearing about 300mb off the phone which was good.

having more trouble actually copying the music off to the hard drive at the moment because nothing works - probably because i've got 8,611 songs on it i suppose.