iphone help

[benjamin]

ok, i got the iphone 3gs, i always used my laptop to update it and all that crap, never had a problem... buuuut, i've got a new pc, and surely if i plug my iphone into my new pc everything will be wiped...

so yeah uh, what do i do?

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[kre8ive]

when you plug your phone into itunes i swear it gives you the choice of "transfer" or "don't transfer" where u can choose to transfer ur stuff over or not,

it works like that for the ipoddddddddddddddddddddddd,

[benjamin]

ohhhh well i haven't tried yet, guess i might as well lol

[benjamin]

nooo it doesn't ;(
anyone?

[benjamin]

ok ok ok, i plugged it in and on the summary tab i ticked the box that says encrypt iphone backup, made a password, it said it was creating a backup.

now all that's done, where the **** is the backup?!

[benjamin]

i still have not sorted this, and it's been like 6 months LOL

[Kieran]

If you have put all your music on to your iPhone using your laptop, then you can't use your computer to transfer items to it. It will wipe it before allowing you to transfer files to it. It's a bit silly to be honest that you can only transfer items using one computer at a time.

[benjamin]

To be honest I'm not fussed about the music, but if I plug it into my new computer it will wipe my contacts, right?

That's ridiculous, basically the whole time you have an iPhone, if you change pc/laptop you're ******? :/

[Kieran]

It should allow you to save your contacts. Mine does. When you plug your iPhone in, does it say Syncing? If it does then its saving your contacts etc. You can then reformat it and they backup will be available on your computer to transfer back :)

[Blinger$]

You can always try this:

http://www.andrewgrant.org/2008/03/30/how-to-sync-an-iphone-with-two-or-more-computers.html

[benjamin]

It should allow you to save your contacts. Mine does. When you plug your iPhone in, does it say Syncing? If it does then its saving your contacts etc. You can then reformat it and they backup will be available on your computer to transfer back :)
Sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't, whenever I plug it in now I get about 3 pop ups saying theres updates etc. etc. and I always just close it.

You can always try this:

http://www.andrewgrant.org/2008/03/30/how-to-sync-an-iphone-with-two-or-more-computers.html

Oooooh thanks, will have to have a look when I get more time after work :) thanks

[Blinger$]

It looked like a few pages came up when I searched "sync iPhone on two computers" ;)

[benjamin]

Well the last time I looked into this was whenever I posted this thread, which was ... beginning of october, only bumped cause i saw it haha.