I have hit a second snag in moving my iTunes 11 library on my old Mac to iTunes 10 on my new Mac.
When I plug in my iPhone, which was previously syncing with my old Mac, to my new Mac, I get the warning that this iPhone is synced with another Mac. I’m given the option of either erasing it and syncing it, or doing nothing. I would be happy to let it erase and sync since all of the content that is on the iPhone is on the new Mac. However, the vast majority of the 64GB of content on my device is music, and I really don’t want to have to go through all of the playlists and artists and albums and configure which ones get synced.
Other than manually rebuilding this information, is there any other way to do this? All of the content that’s on the phone is on the new Mac, so I’m not trying to transfer content off of the iPhone. I just don’t want to have to go through and manually configure what syncs to the iPhone and what doesn’t. I have the same issue with my iPad 2 syncing with the new Mac: same error message, all of the content is on both the iPad and the new Mac, I don’t want to have to rebuild the list of what syncs and what doesn’t (which is about which movies and books sync).
I still have the old Mac and its old iTunes library. I would try to reimport the iTunes library, but I’ve added a bunch of content to the new iTunes library before I tried to sync with my iPhone. Moving to iTunes 11 on the new Mac is not an option. I’d rather take the time to rebuild the sync lists rather than do that.
If you turn on home sharing (or just share the library from the Old Mac) you can just copy your playlists to your new computer.
If you are selectively syncing playlists, you could just put all of those playlists into a folder in iTunes. Then just sync the entire folder. (Of course you would still have to manually figure out which of those playlists you are current syncing)
I don’t see how Home Sharing helps with this. As I said in the original post, all of the iTunes content from my old Mac has been moved to my new Mac. The old Mac is going to be decommissioned. Streaming is definitely not a goal, especially since I want the iPad content for next week’s flight to flyover country. I am selectively syncing content (not just playlists, but also books and movies) to the iPhone and iPad. As I said in the original post, I’m trying not to have to manually set all of this up again. The metadata about what should get synced with the iPhone and iPad clearly exists on the old Mac.