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How do I move my iTunes account onto a new laptop?

Asked by desiree333 (3241points) September 19th, 2011

I owned a Dell Inspiron in which I have my iTunes account set up on. Today I bought a MacBook Air and I want to transfer my iTunes account onto my new laptop. I read something about de-authorizing or something but I am not sure how to do it right. I absolutely DO NOT want to lose all my music and movies because I have lots and spent a lot of time getting all of it. I also am worried that it will only save the media I have purchased, which isn’t much. How can I transfer my iTunes account onto my new laptop without losing anything?

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Oh and P.S I do not own an external hardrive. I do not want to buy one because university has left me broke. I need a free way that does not require CD’s or DVD’s as my MacBook Air does not have an optical drive…

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On itunes store menu click on “authorize this computer.” Sign in. Plug in your ipod and you should be good to go.

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Use the home sharing function. Info is here.

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chyna's avatar

I just want to mention I did this last night and my iTunes transferred over but all my songs downloaded from CD’s were deleted.

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