I'm quite new to this whole iPhone/iTunes stuff, in that I'd never used iTunes until having an iPhone forced me too. But anyway, on my phone I have a good few apps, but I recently wiped and reinstalled windows on my laptop, so the iTunes on my laptop has no apps. If I try to synch my phone, the end result will be all the apps being removed from my phone because I don't also have them downloaded on iTunes I can't find a way to synch the other way (Phone to PC), am I missing something? It seems retarded that iTunes will wipe all my apps off my phone. The only way I can think of solving this would be to re-download all my apps in iTunes before syncing, but that seems ridiculous.
That's Apple's DRM system for you, facilitating any sort of copying of ANYTHING from your iPhone to another persons PC is something they don't want, so basically, your installation of iTunes is linked to your iPhone. Get rid of iTunes, and the stuff on your phone will have to go with it if you want to ever sync your iPhone again. To be fair, the same thing happened to me and it didn't wipe all my apps, it just wiped my music and video files that were uploaded via iTunes.
When I click the synch button it warns me that apps will be deleted, and then it shows a preview of the iPhones menu after the synch, which is missing almost all of my apps. I'll try downloading them all to iTunes and see what happens then, pain in the ass either way though, seems like a huge flaw when you can download apps straight to the phone with out using iTunes (which is what I mostly do) as surely this must happen all the time...
All you need do is on the file menu, click transfer my purchases. It'll then copy all the apps off your iphone.
That is the way to do it, although it does take AGES (and will not include any purchases you have deleted off your phone...
i just plug my fone in and it does the rest for me. i do get apps via my iphone, but itunes reconises them and copies them to my comp! but what kenco said is the way forward my friend, if itunes wont copy them automaticaly!
I thank you good sir, finally got round to firing up my laptop and trying that, and it's worked a treat, takes its sweet time though. Just wish they'd bring out iTunes for Linux, OSX is based on unix, so a linux version can't be that difficult
it's not really based on unix. deep down somewhere is a freeBSD sort of ish looking kernel, but there are so many layers of custom stuff that it's basically impossible to do an 'easy' port to linux from OSX when using all its special stuff.
