<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Shelly,<div><br></div><div>If you go to apple.com/support you will find if you search transferring iTunes purchased items from one computer, especially when it s Mac to Mac is easy. Among the many ways of doing it:</div><div><br></div><div>1)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Using your iPod, if it has sufficient space, with content on the iPod, plug it into the new machine, under file>Transfer purchases from iPod. Make sure you authorize the target computer for your iTunes account first.</div><div><br></div><div>2)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Put the computer with content in target mode (start up while holding the letter T down) then connect it to the destination computer using a firewire cable. It will show on the new computer as an external hard drive, select all of the content of iTunes folder and copy it to the iTunes folder on the destination computer. Authroize the new computer with the store.</div><div><br></div><div>3)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>You can have up to 5 computers at a time authorized with your iTunes account. If you have reached the limit, once a year you can de-authorize all computers and then re-authorize the ones that you are currently using.</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">this is not for public post please.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">al</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font><div><div>On Oct 26, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Shelley Lipton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>My main computer is a laptop and its startup disc is getting full. I <br>would like to transfer some content from iTunes from the laptop to my <br>desktop computer, freeing up some space. What is the best and/or <br>fastest way of doing this? As always, your suggestions are greatly <br>appreciated. Many thanks, shelley<br>_______________________________________________<br>NPMUG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NPMUG@davesevick.com">NPMUG@davesevick.com</a><br>http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>