[kevin11599]

Hey everyone!
I am a recent swith of about a year and will never go back. I have an ibook G4800 and am about top purchase a Powerbook before i go to college and my 1300 songs in iTunes hopefully are going with me, i was wondering how i could go about doing this and if not how can i have them backed up so when i do get it i don't lose them, thanks

[Applefreak01]

Get a 6 pin firewire cable if you don't have one, boot the iBook in target mode by hold done the T key while it starts up. Once your in target mode you'll see the firewire logo bounce around on the screen. On your new Powerbook the iBook will show up as a external firewire hard drive. Double click the iBook hard drive icon, go to Users, then your name, then Music, then iTunes, then drag the iTunes Music folder over to the Powerbook either in the same path ie PowerBook HD-Users-YourName-Music-iTunes or just to the desktop then open each song and iTunes will copy it to your iTunes library automatically. Also if you aren't going to use the iBook anymore or sell it, its a good idea to deauthorize it so it can't play/buy music using your music store account.

As for backing up your songs you got a couple of options:
1. Get an iPod if you don't have one. If you ever need to restore your music there are a number of programs out there that will do just that.
2. Get a external hard drive and back up your iTunes Music folder after you buy songs.
I would also say burn a DVD or CD of your music but with 1300 songs you'll need more than one CD and if you don't get a PowerBook with SuperDrive then you can't burn a DVD and DVDs as do CDs can get scratched if you don't store them right. Also if you buy a lot of music you'll eventually have more than a DVD can hold. I'd go with a external firewire hard drive.

[rmongold]

I would echo what Applefreak01 said with regard to backing things up in the future... iPods serve a wonderful dual purpose in that they both play (and by virtue of that) store your music, but can also act as a back up device for other data. With the amount of music you've got, you only need a 6 GB iPod mini to hold all your music. If you were to get a 20 GB iPod, you'd have plenty of room for music, plus room to grow, plus room to back up any number of documents, pictures, etc (providing you don't have lots of video...). So you get all of that for the bargain (Education) price of $269. Not bad.

[AppleOptionFour]

Originally Posted by kevin11599

Hey everyone!

1. Target mode your old mac.

2. Connect new and old with firewire.

3. Turn on new Mac.

4. Use Application/User file transfer during setup. (Can't remember what this is called exactly. Its got a name.)

5. Finish setting up your new mac and look at all the files that transferred from the old mac.

[Randman]

Migration Assistant.

[kevin11599]

Originally Posted by Randman

Migration Assistant.

What programs can i use to move my files from my iPod onto another computer such as my other iMac or the ...PC upstairs?

[Applefreak01]

I assume you've got a little network in your house with all the computers connected to a switch or hub. In that case all you need to do is turn on the computers. On the Macs if they are all running Mac OS X all you need to do is turn on Windows Sharing. Click the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen, choose System Preferences, under Internet & Network on Mac OS X 10.3 click Sharing, click the check box next to Windows Sharing, close System Preferences. Note it may take awhile for all the computers to see each other.

Once that's done on the Macs open the hard drive and Click Network to the left. Find the computer(s) you want to connect to and enter the username/password to connect. Or on the PC click Start, My Network Places (on Windows XP), View all computers then proceed to connect to one of the Macs.

This is probly the easiest way to transfer files from Mac to PC or PC to Mac. Unless your iPod is formated to work in Windows then that would be easier. But most likely your iPod is Mac formated so the PC won't be able to read it (there are programs out there that will do this MacOpener is one but they are not free).

Burn a CD will work also. Burn your files on one of the Macs and the PC will be able to read it just fine. But if you have a lot of files (more than 600MB) you'll need a few CDs to do it that way.

So my suggestion is turn on Windows Sharing, transfer the files over your ethernet network (faster than wireless if you have wireless) and be done with it .

For Mac to Mac the traget mode I suggested ealier will work just fine or if your iPod is set up to act as a hard drive that will work too. You can check to see if your iPod will work like a hard drive by connecting the iPod to your Mac, open iTunes, click iTunes from the menu bar, click Preferences, click the General tab, check Enable disk use, click ok. Then you can simply drag and drop your files onto the iPod just like any old disk.