Help please - - connected ipad, PC thinks it's a camera

[stratobuddy]

Thanks.

The old PC does not have wifi, only the new one, and no obvious way of connecting them together by a cable.

I am also puzzled that itunes (on the old PC) does not actually seem to CONTAIN any music itself, that resides in a music folder, it seems that itunes just points to this.

But the ipad will actually contain the music, so I don't know what will happen when I connect it to the new PC via itunes.

The old PC is now happily transferring tracks to the ipod, although it seems to be doing it in a semi-random sequence.

 

[Gabriel1]

Thanks.

The old PC does not have wifi, only the new one, and no obvious way of connecting them together by a cable.

I am also puzzled that itunes (on the old PC) does not actually seem to CONTAIN any music itself, that resides in a music folder, it seems that itunes just points to this.

But the ipad will actually contain the music, so I don't know what will happen when I connect it to the new PC via itunes.

The old PC is now happily transferring tracks to the ipod, although it seems to be doing it in a semi-random sequence.

A read of this http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527 may prove helpful.

The Archangel

 

[AQ_OC]

We need to get to the bottom of why it is taking 3 hours to install. That in sooooo unreal. I know iTunes is bad...but it ain't that bad.

How much space to you have on the drive where you keep iTunes?

I never sync all of my music....I have like 90 GB of music.....poor little 64 GB iPad could not take it. In fact, I keep very little music on my iPad....I keep a decent amount on my iPhone...with the cloud, there is little reason to stuff your iPad full of music.

But getting our PC and iTunes in reasonable shape should be a goal to pursue.

 

[zstairlessone]

If you backup all your music, on the PC, to a thumb drive or a different hard drive you will be able to put it back into iTunes after you upgrade your PC's operating system. In iTunes look at the location of your music, go to that directory, copy everything to the other storage media (if you have movies, books etc those directories will be under the same directory your music is) once EVERYTHING is copied and you have verified the copy and you are sure it is not on the same drive as the one you will be putting the operating system on you can upgrade to the version of windows you want to. Once done with the update/upgrade and iTunes is installed, you can put your music, books etc back into your iTunes library.

 

[zstairlessone]

I missed the change part and thought you were updating. It works the same, take the copied data and put it on the new computer as described for the old. Do you have iTunes set up as one of your devices on the new computer? With nothing in that computer's iTunes library you will see all of the stuff loaded on your iPad go away, hence bring all your old stuff into iTunes from the backup.

 

[iDoc]

The problem is not with the Windows OS (aside from it being Windows...), or even iTunes. The problem is that when you installed iTunes it did not include the drivers for the device. Completely remove iTunes, then reinstall from scratch. It will work afterwards, I had to do this recently and it fixed the problem. As stated above, it is totally normal for the PC to see an iPhone, iPad, etc. as a camera if it does not have the drivers installed for the device.