I want to buy a new MacBook Pro this weekend. My current one is almost 5 years old; it's time for something new.
I have a Time Capsule, an iPhone with hundreds of apps, an iPad, an iPod Classic, tons of photos in my iPhoto library, over 100 GB of music files in my iTunes and lots of music software for my recording studio.
I kinda want to start over with my new laptop. I want to install everything as new instead of restoring from my Time Capsule or however folks normally do it. But I'm not sure how to do so. I mean, I know how to install all my software - it's the iTunes and iPhoto I am not sure about.
For example, iTunes. I sync all my devices to it. I don't want to screw up my iPhone and all the data in it like my history of text messages. If I simply connect my iPhone to a new laptop, will it establish a new, initial backup or will it try to erase everything off the phone? See, I have this suspicion that my old laptop's harddrive is filled with previous iPhone backups and I don't need to bring them all over - just the latest.
I think with iPhoto, I can just copy over the library file, right? I think it's just one big file. And then I have to tell iPhoto in my new laptop where the library is.
But I suspect iTunes is a bit more complicated.
Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this.
Paul
I have a Time Capsule, an iPhone with hundreds of apps, an iPad, an iPod Classic, tons of photos in my iPhoto library, over 100 GB of music files in my iTunes and lots of music software for my recording studio.
I kinda want to start over with my new laptop. I want to install everything as new instead of restoring from my Time Capsule or however folks normally do it. But I'm not sure how to do so. I mean, I know how to install all my software - it's the iTunes and iPhoto I am not sure about.
For example, iTunes. I sync all my devices to it. I don't want to screw up my iPhone and all the data in it like my history of text messages. If I simply connect my iPhone to a new laptop, will it establish a new, initial backup or will it try to erase everything off the phone? See, I have this suspicion that my old laptop's harddrive is filled with previous iPhone backups and I don't need to bring them all over - just the latest.
I think with iPhoto, I can just copy over the library file, right? I think it's just one big file. And then I have to tell iPhoto in my new laptop where the library is.
But I suspect iTunes is a bit more complicated.
Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this.
Paul