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
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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