Dizzy-Deb Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Bit of a long shot but thought would ask Hubbys laptop crashed and lost all his library and downloaded music. Did manage to get some back with emergency restore but now when try to play any of his itunes music library it keeps saying not the original library and wont let me do anything. Hope that makes sense! hes not very IT literate and I am not much better. Hes still got alll his music on ipod but if plug that in to laptop it wants to overwrite it. Is there anyway to restore an itunes library from the ipod ?? thanks xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadietoo Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 (edited) Does this help? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329 hopefully someone who isn't a luddite like me will be along shortly... thank you for making the link work Edited February 4, 2011 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadietoo Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 oh no...now I 've undone all your good work Chucky Mama...I really shouldn't be let loose on here at all... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I wondered where it had gone - it's back again now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachelk Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Sorry I can't help, just wanted to say I feel your pain.....I'm trying to sync my daughters as we speak and its just NOT happening! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 When we had our laptops stolen we downloaded itunes on to the new one and plugged the ipod in and the songs went from the ipod to the computer and filled the library Please do read the help notes though, I'd hate for you to lose everything on my say so!! It did take four days of plucking up courage for us to plug in the ipods in though as we were convinced we would lose everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy-Deb Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Hi thanks for advice everyone, have tried most things with it, but think because the library was corrupted in some way just couldnt get it to work. With a bit of googling found a program thats done it a treat. Not sure if can mention it on here, so wont post the details but, needless to say... loaded it to laptop, paid the fee (was £13 for single pc, or £21 for up to 5 pcs) but its worked fine. Once loaded and registered, plugged in his ipod and it restored it all back to his itunes library. Was well worth the fee. I went for the family package of up to 5 pcs, so have put it on the other laptops we use too. Hes a very happy bunny to be able to plug his ipod back in, and today has used his christmas itunes voucher to buy some more music... lol. I am sure there probably is some way of doing it without using a special software prog to use it but when you are not very IT, its so frustrating. Itunes is not the easier of things to use at best of times. So all sorted for the moment. Again thanks for advice. xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
