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How to sync iPad with a new Mac without losing all music, contacts, movie, photo and games?

Once I have iPad, the first generation. This week I will get a new iPad 2 and I am going to use it on the new updated Mac OS X Lion. I've never run an iOS device on Mac OS 10.7. I am worry about the file will be lost when I use iTunes to sync files for my iPad 2. So I am wonderring is there a way to get around of file missing. I don't want to lose any of the music, contacts, movie, photo and games on iPad.


Solution:
iTunes syncs file with a quick way and it does automatically add files from Mac to iPad easily. While the problem you have mentioned really troubles a lot of iOS user. Especially when moving iPad to a new Mac. Most of the users lost files on iPad when they use the iPad on new Mac OS Lion for first time. To avoid the file missing for your devices, the way to resolve this problem may be that you can use a tool to manage iPad files by manually. I mean add files such as songs, movie, photo to iPad direclty without iTunes or export what you want on iPad to Mac manually.

How to sync iPad with a new Mac without losing all music, contacts, movie, photo and games

Application such as iMacsoft iPad to Mac Transfer can meet your needs. This tool can manage iPad very well on Mac. Support Mac OS X Lion as well. You can use it to replace the iTunes. So putting files from Mac to iPad can be very easy. When move a new iPad to new Mac. This app is a good way to avoiding missing muisc, movie, contacts, photo and games.


You can have a copy of iPad stuff such as music, video, movie, playlist, ebooks, SMS, camerall video easily, with iMacsoft iPad to Mac Transfer.
iMacsoft iPad to Mac Transfer - Sync files for iPad without iTunes


Here is how to sync iPad with an new Mac without losing all the music, movie, contacts, photo and games with iPad Transfer for Mac



iMacsoft iPod to Mac Transfer, the excellent Mac iPod transfer software, is specially designed for Mac OS. It can fast transfer, rip, copy and manage your Music, Movie, Photo, ePub, PDF, Audiobook, Voice Memo, Podcast and TV Show from iPod to Mac, iPod to iTunes, iPod to iPod and Mac to iPod transfer is also available.


Step 1: Download, install and run iMacsoft iPad to Mac Transfer

Get the trial version of this iPad files syncing software, install it and run it next, and you'll see the belowing interface.

iPad manage software for Mac

Step 2: Sync files to iPad from mac

For you to manage iPad file well, this app can both support exporting files out of iPad and import files from Mac to iPad. Here we take adding new photos to iPad from Mac hard drive as an example.
1. click the "Add file" button.
2. Next, browse the photo folder or file on Mac.
3. Check it and add to iPad.
With the same method, you can also add movies you ripped from DVD, video files download from online or from your camera, ebooks you purchased from Amazon, audio books and more. Add files to iPad

You can also export files from iPad to Mac
For example, when connecting the iPad to new Mac, you want to backup the iPad books to Mac. Here is how can your do that.


1) Open the "Books" items in iPad list and all ePub books files are displayed on the library panel.
2) Locate the files you want to transfer in the "Books" library and check them without any loss.
3) Choose the "Export->Export to iTunes" option on the "File" top-menu, or directly click the "Export checked files to iTunes" button to export and select the target folder for saving iPad ePub books in the dialog box that appears, and press "Save" button and start to transfer ePub books from iPad to iTunes.


transfer files from iPad to new Mac


Then you'll see.
transfer files from iPad to new Mac


Wait for a few seconds, you can have you files from iPad to Mac. iMacsoft iPad to Mac transfer not only support iPad files to Mac/iTunes transform, but also support iPhone and iPod. Such as iPod classic, iPod shuffle, iPod shuffle 6G, iPod nano, iPod nano 5G, iPod nano 6G, iPod touch, iPod touch 4, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, even the updated iOS 4.3.



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