Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Weird Mac problem Date: 30 Sep 2015 21:55:31 GMT Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <1891606462465159647.648520drache-notchibardun.net@news.eternal-september.org> <280920151517311847%nospam@nospam.invalid> <1752317140465185415.668226drache-notchibardun.net@news.eternal-september.org> <280920152230399088%nospam@nospam.invalid> <1862835708465226027.532055drache-notchibardun.net@news.eternal-september.org> <1053687165465249801.928690drache-notchibardun.net@news.eternal-september.org> <704953130465335160.080718drache-notchibardun.net@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net XqaGMu7C9uHlbcFgfuxV7Q4wT2RSK71CNz8GUyUrPWuIBNyOCX Cancel-Lock: sha1:O309nFECNS/s0WOhB/SdHgufosY= sha1:VdzT47En87MR4iDB5S6Q4BkmJCA= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.0 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:32279 comp.sys.mac.system:81212 Erilar wrote: > Jolly Roger wrote: >> On 2015-09-29, Erilar wrote: > . >>> >>> The Yosemite version of iTunes, a couple versions later than what the old >>> SnowLeopard laptop was using, is arranged differently, hard to use, and >>> does not include iBooks. It does have most of my music. The separate iBooks >>> is an organizational mess and I don't even want to THINK what it would do >>> to my current iBooks organization. I began trying to rearrange the iBooks >>> mess on the laptop at one time and came to the conclusion i'd have to be >>> snowed in(but with no power loss) for several days before I felt impelled >>> to finish that task. What it does to the indexing of my music collection is >>> bad enough. >> >> So nothing is actually missing. And no, synchronizing with it shouldn't >> mess up anything on the iPad. > > OK, thanks. I may yet have to do that if something expensive is wrong with > the old laptop, but I can wait a while. I'm not clear about exactly how the > iTunes Store works when multiple computers are involved. I downloaded a few > "new" pieces directly from the store to the old laptop(and iPod and iPad > from there). Everything that was on the old one, whatever source, was > copied to the new one when I bought it, but the late few are not. If I > understand this correctly, I have to deauthorize the old laptop's account > to authorize the new one to get those? > > ("New" music in my lexicon has nothing to do with the 20th century or this > one!) Nope you can authorize up to five computers. So just authorize the new computer and you're done. -- Sent from my iPhone