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Oceanwench
06-07-2006, 12:05 PM
This week I had a person with far more technical know-how than I install my new iMac.
He was to copy all the important stuff from my old iMac [circa 1999] onto the new one.
The old iMac was running OS X -- not sure of the version, Panther?
Anyway, I had a ton of music in the library on my old iMac. Also same songs on my iPod.
The technician was unable to copy the songs from iMac to iMac, or from iPod to new iMac.
He said it was because the older version of iTunes was used for all the songs on my iPod.
Can this be true? Both have computers have OS X, just different versions. It doesn't make sense to me ... but I am not a computer genius. So I am appealing to those who are!
:p
I just want to know if there is a way to get what is on my iPod into my new library.
chutem
06-07-2006, 02:03 PM
I am not sure but I don't see why this would matter. make sure your pod is in manual update mode. Then on your new mac get a pod ripper (I use senuti (http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/)) it should move everything from you pod to itunes.
hayne
06-07-2006, 02:14 PM
That person should have used Apple's "Migration Assistant" to copy stuff from your old Mac to the new one. (It comes with all new Macs)
That would have handled the iTunes files without problem.

I think you can still use Migration Assistant and tell it to just copy the iTunes files.
To use Migration Assistant you first connect the old Mac to the new one in Firewire "target disk mode": http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
Read the Help from Migration Assistant (which is under /Applications on your new Mac)
Oceanwench
06-07-2006, 03:04 PM
Thanks for the quick replies!
I was not at home when he was working on my computer -- my husband was -- so I am not sure what he used to copy from one to the other.

All I know is that his explanation was that it was 2 versions of iTunes, and the newer version [on my new iMac] could not read the library of the old version.
Just makes no sense to me.
Sounds too Microsofty, you know?
SatCure
06-16-2006, 03:54 PM
See http://macs.about.com/od/ipod/a/copy_from_ipod.htm
Oceanwench
06-20-2006, 01:17 PM
I am not sure but I don't see why this would matter. make sure your pod is in manual update mode. Then on your new mac get a pod ripper (I use senuti (http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/)) it should move everything from you pod to itunes.


This was the perfect solution -- thanks so much!