Transferring iPod Touch to new computer

Moving your iTunes account to a new machine is inordinately difficult.

iTunes does not do it for you. There are no instructions in iTunes help.

The best instructions I could find are here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=526316

And this link describes how to make AppData folder visible on Win7:
http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1170550.htm


In summary:

1. install iTunes on the new box and shut it down prior to it searching for music.
2. copy your old music, iTunes data, and iTunes setting data to the new machine to the correct folders.
3. start iTunes and sync

If all goes well the new version if iTunes will not warn you about backing up on more than one machine.

Folder Type	Location on Windows XP	Location Win 7
iTunes data	%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Music\iTunes	%USERPROFILE%\My Music\iTunes
iTunes settings	%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Apple Computer\iTunes

Your music is usually in the iTunes data directory but I keep mine in a separate place as I download music from other sources than iTunes.

%USERPROFILE% can move but the default on XP is
c:/Documents and Settings/your name here/
and on Win 7
c:/Users/your name here/

Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3

I recently built a new system with this mother board. Went together well. Seems well designed.

One oddity: the on board NIC got stuck. Would not connect. No LEDs. BIOS has a nifty test tool to check the connection. It thought no cable. Swapped cable, ..., no joy. Turned in a trouble report to Gigabyte. Still waiting on that.

Just to try everything, I turned off power on the system from the power supply. This turns off everything including the trickle of power to the NIC. This solved the problem. Now the NIC is happy and useful.