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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Weird Mac problem
Date: 29 Sep 2015 23:24:23 GMT
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On 2015-09-29, Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-09-29, Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> wrote:
>>> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> sync with itunes and/or enable icloud.
>>> 
>>> That brings up my major unresolved problem. Won't a sync with the new
>>> iTunes or iCloud let the new iTunes mess up what's on the iPad?
>> 
>> The "new" iTunes? You should have restored your iTunes data along with
>> all of your other data from your Time Machine backups. If you did it
>> properly, the data in iTunes won't be new at all. It'll be the same data
>> that was there before. I suspect you did not do that, though. Hard to
>> tell since you rarely give enough information in your posts. 
>
> 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. 

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