Hi, I'm new here and i'm not sure if there was already a thread about this but I just got my iphone and i was able to manually manage it on my pc and mbp. But today, i had to reinstall my itunes because it kept crashing and now i can't manually click manage on both computers. I can only do it on one of them and when i try to do it on the other one, it asks to erase and sync. I'm not sure what i'm doing wrong or if i'm missing something. Help would be nice. Thanks.
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Iphone sync with two computers
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I don't know how you did it, but I'm pretty sure it's impossible. iDevice's can only be synced to one computer at a time.
not exactly true. I sync and/or backup everyones iPhone on my pc before I work on them. especially if I am JB'ing a iPhone. now I know there are conflicts about the music but I do it every day. I even do it on my iPhone on 3 different computers. I know if I try to load music I can only do it from one computer but I can definitely sync and backup on multiple ones.
My understanding is you can play music off of your Iphone\Ipod if the computer you are hooked up to has been authorized to play the music (if it is DRM'ed) - If it does not have a DRM on it you can play it on whatever computer you hook the Iphone\Ipod up on.
With this in mind you can not Sync to the computer though (ie copy from the Iphone\Ipod to the computer).