My VAIO is on its last leg. It's been taking forever to just open up programs. I may have to consider having it sent to Sony to get it cleaned up.
I have been thinking about switching my iPhone sync over to my MacBook Pro for a while, and this was the week I actually got around to working on it. It's been a busy-work intensive experience.
I wish I'd gone to the Genius bar at my local Apple store *before* I started working on this little task, so that I got the straight story before I started the monumental undertaking. Cause it's quite easy really.
So here's what you do when you need to start syncing your iPhone from a new computer:
1) Take an external drive, connect it to your new computer, if it's a mac use the magnifying glass icon in the upper right-hand corner of your screen to look for the disk utility. Once in the utility, select and reformat your external drive (MS DOS FAT format) then eject it.
2) plug in your external drive to your old computer. Go to iTunes, Preferences and click Advanced, the address in the very first box is where the folder called iTunes is located. Navigate there and copy it.
3) Navigate to your external drive and paste the iTunes folder. Eject your external drive.
4) Connect the external drive to the new computer, copy the iTunes folder. Navigate to the iTunes folder in the new computer, click paste (replace).
5) then go to iTunes, under Store select "Authorize this computer"
The next time you hook up your iPhone to your iTunes in the new computer, all apps and such will cross over, allowing you to sync from this computer from now on without losing your information.
Good luck!
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