As for the music itself, I could also use iTunes Match to carry it over, but I’d rather just drop the folder in and be happy about it.

I’m about to phase out my glorious 2006 iMac in favor of a new Mac Mini and I’m going to just move the iTunes Library folder this way, everything is retained and I don’t have to convince a brand new iTunes not to nuke the iPhone and iPad just because they have been synced to a different machines. My father’s iPad, which uses my Apple ID to get apps so that he doesn’t have to purchase the same ones I have already paid for, has about 250, most of them being games he tried once or twice and left there.

My iPhone 4 only has 163, and I could delete many of those as I don’t use them. iTunes only lists 920 apps, so something is out of sync already.

My “Mobile Applications” folder contains 924 items, weighing a whopping 18.78 GB. Until last year’s iOS 5, this meant having to keep a local copy of each and one of them on the computer you used to sync your iOS device. If you’re like me, you’ve had an iPhone, iPod Touch and/or iPad for a few years now and have probably amassed a fairly big collection of apps, both free and paid.

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