Timeline for Is it possible to have the iPhone automatically open iTunes/sync on one computer and not on others?
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| Dec 5, 2010 at 10:27 | comment | added | Sam Brightman | Philip: I don't want to prevent iTunes from ever opening automatically. That is exactly the problem. I do want it to open automatically for the synced computer (yes, I'm sure, it's the machine I started with). If you're saying the preference used to allow this to be changed per-machine, then you're answer should be right but iTunes is broken. | |
| Sep 27, 2010 at 8:34 | comment | added | Victor Jalencas | You might want to have a look at my answer on how to sync a device with 2 machines. While it won't prevent the mini-syncing you mention, it at least ensures that you won't have your Library cleared upon syncing: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/2528/… | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 10:05 | comment | added | Philip Regan | Then the behavior of iTunes must have changed. All I ever did was disable automatic syncing in iTunes under the old Syncing preference pane and that prevented iTunes from ever opening automatically; there was never any other place to set this behavior, as far as I remember. At the same time, I've never once had problems with syncing any device except when syncing to a new machine, and even then, I got a warning window that allowed me to cancel before syncing. | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 5:50 | comment | added | Sam Brightman | I still don't see how this would work with a second phone I wanted to sync with the second PC - if the preference worked as described, iTunes would not open...? Hence no sync? I'm aware of how downvoting works. | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 5:48 | comment | added | Sam Brightman | To be clear: the preference you describe still exists, but it doesn't prevent iTunes from opening. Also, I know the difference between the two PCs. The PC that the phone is NOT synced to also opens iTunes/mini-syncs, even with the preference checked. With the preference checked, it seemed to cause actual damage to the phone (corrupt name, library) which had not occurred before. | |
| Sep 18, 2010 at 14:04 | history | edited | Philip Regan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 18, 2010 at 11:17 | comment | added | Sam Brightman | Furthermore, even if this worked, it would prevent the machine being used at all for syncing, no? If you want to have iPhone A synced with computer A and iPhone B with computer B, you would not be able to use A with B for charging/playing music/grabbing photos etc. | |
| Sep 18, 2010 at 11:15 | comment | added | Sam Brightman | I cannot downvote, however: the result of doing this is that iTunes still starts, still does some kind of mini-sync, but doesn't recognise the name of the phone or allow access to its contents. On ejecting and disconnecting, the music library needs to rebuild itself on the phone. I confirmed I had used the setting, quit iTunes and tried again, with exactly the same result (albeit, could access contents this time). | |
| Sep 17, 2010 at 13:07 | history | answered | Philip Regan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |