Thought I was being clever - doh!
 

So, finally got myself a new laptop as I had the other one about 4 years and could only use for a few mins before it crashing - very annoying!

I carefully followed the instructions re transferring your itunes library to your new computer using your computer but guess what? It didn't ****ing work. Now trying to restore it completely as it appears to be full of data files. Argh.

So, yeah, the lesson - don't pretend you can follow instructions when you have always rebelled against and ignored them in the past.

Awwwww my heart goes out to you.

Im one of those people that rush in before reading instructions, and usually totally mess it up. Everytime I swear I wont do it again, but do you think I learn hehehehehe

Good luck with sorting it out

Jade xxx

my dad used to have a saying: "if all else fails read the instructions!"

then my mum got a job writing instructions

I've just finished reloading every Cd I own back onto my Ipod as I've just got a new laptop too and the the new Itunes I d/loaded wiped the whole lot off apart from some cr***y sample tunes.
It took 3 days.

I really hope you haven't lost anything you paid for. That would be gutting.

All the mp3s I get are free ;)

I backed up most of my purchases but some cds I borrowed off family will have to be re-borrowed. The thing is re the back-ups, gracenote doesn't recognise and so have to reinput details manually. Fortunately, the vast majority are from usual cds. Doing it gradually but very frustrated as my playlists etc have to be re-done and my nike-plus history has been wiped from the i-pod & although still on my nike-plus webpage there doesn't seem to be a way of getting it back onto my ipod. Good job that I only recently got the nike plus thing so not lost much.

Are any of the tunes still on your ipod? you could perhaps rescue them fromthere.

the thing is when you then sync it with itunes, it automatically puts what is in the itunes library onto your ipod, so if your itunes is empty it deletes everything, not one of apple's greatest ideas.

you should be able to click one button for ipod-to-library and another for library-to-ipod.

mand x

There is a setting somewhere that means you can change that.

So can you transfer music from your iPod to your iTunes library?
Say if that was the only place you had the music cos you didn't have the same computer anymore?

Ha, ha! That would be good but I thought I was clever as library was too big so shrunk it down etc to put on ipod in place of music in order to use it as a device to transfer it to my new computer - oops! Did not have the desired effect :angry: