I've searched and can't find anything pertinent to my question, so I'm hoping someone knows.
Background - I have a 2G 32gb Touch, which I was syncing exclusively to a Windows laptop. Fairly early on I migrated the media files to an external hard drive. This had worked fine for over a year. Then a few weeks ago the laptop bluescreened.
I thought it wasn't a problem - was just going to start using iTunes on my desktop, transferring purchases without syncing on the first use, and backing up again thereafter.
But before I could even do that, my iPod died too (that was a bad week). I thought for a while it had bricked, after a couple of days trying different things I finally managed to get it into DFU mode to restore. Of course with no backup on the PC to restore from, I had to set it up again as new. Again, not a huge problem as my media library was still intact, but obviously I didn't have all the app data, notes etc, some of which I would really like to recover.
Also, having got somewhat lax about backups of the laptop (all photos/music etc being stored elsewhere and separately backed up) I didn't have a copy of the original iPod backup. That was solved via some relatively painless data recovery of the laptop, but it took time. Meanwhile, I was continuing to use the Touch, and syncing to/backing up on the PC regularly.
So the question, finally. Now I have retrieved the backup file from the laptop, is it possible to get the iTunes on my PC to recognise it somehow, so that I can restore from it to retrieve my app data etc?
Is it as simple as moving it into the relevant folder before starting up iTunes, or do I need to replace the existing backup file on the PC?
Sorry for the long post (hopefully to preempt some of the inevitable questions) but any guidance much appreciated!
Thanks
Background - I have a 2G 32gb Touch, which I was syncing exclusively to a Windows laptop. Fairly early on I migrated the media files to an external hard drive. This had worked fine for over a year. Then a few weeks ago the laptop bluescreened.
I thought it wasn't a problem - was just going to start using iTunes on my desktop, transferring purchases without syncing on the first use, and backing up again thereafter.
But before I could even do that, my iPod died too (that was a bad week). I thought for a while it had bricked, after a couple of days trying different things I finally managed to get it into DFU mode to restore. Of course with no backup on the PC to restore from, I had to set it up again as new. Again, not a huge problem as my media library was still intact, but obviously I didn't have all the app data, notes etc, some of which I would really like to recover.
Also, having got somewhat lax about backups of the laptop (all photos/music etc being stored elsewhere and separately backed up) I didn't have a copy of the original iPod backup. That was solved via some relatively painless data recovery of the laptop, but it took time. Meanwhile, I was continuing to use the Touch, and syncing to/backing up on the PC regularly.
So the question, finally. Now I have retrieved the backup file from the laptop, is it possible to get the iTunes on my PC to recognise it somehow, so that I can restore from it to retrieve my app data etc?
Is it as simple as moving it into the relevant folder before starting up iTunes, or do I need to replace the existing backup file on the PC?
Sorry for the long post (hopefully to preempt some of the inevitable questions) but any guidance much appreciated!
Thanks
