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What about windows user. How will we get to backup our iPad?
New Apps I'm guessing.
iTunes lives on on Windows.
On Mac Catalina, the old interface for syncing iOS in iTunes now lives in the finder and looks identical. There are ‘new’ separate apps for podcasts and music.
With respect to being glad to see the back of iTunes, be careful what you wish for! We might just end up with everything completely dumbed down.
In the public beta, music has lost column view for example which was great for selecting multiple albums for playing.
Darn. I was trying to get into the "beta" of iTunes as a backup/firmware update app for Wi-Fi linked household appliances.
They might kill this secret project. I didn't sign the NDA.
I'm sick of the Epson Printer firmware updates. Seems like they have one about every 12 hours. In a perfect world I could just
add the Printer to iTunes and let it go crazy without me noticing. Now my Lightbulbs need new firmware and the Refrigerator
has been hacked and is showing porn on the built-in touch screen. The toilets keeping flushing after my watch can tell I'm asleep. So, I need "iToilet Guard" on my network. Don't waste your waste water: Get iToilet Guard. Of course, I'll need to visit the Apple iAppliance Store for a fitting. Does anyone use the bun warmer? I hear it can over heat.
Then this... iTunes stops adding more features. I'll devastated. I had hopes iTunes would replace IOS in my pocket or at least in
my Watch.
I think of i-Tune and Tuning. Like "bring your house in for a tune up." iTunes... we stop viruses dead in their tracks: both biological and cyber. iTunes leave home and take it with your. We're watch (out for) you at all times.
Gotta go. My watch tells me it's time for my meds. Saving up for the iAuto-Medicate "Defibrilator" model.
Then we'll see Apple Finance. Your account is over drawn. Transfer funds or we'll put your heart on "lock down" mode.
ever since Apple removed the ability to backup and restore individual apps, I’ve nearly stopped using itunes except on rare occasion to drag a pdf to goodreader or the like. I should probably start using it to backup my iPad pro. Does it create an image of your entire ipad that you can restore if the SSD ever failed — or does it just save the documents from apps that support the standard? Is it pretty good at storing all the music app projects, presets and the like?
iOS backups are a weird hybrid of sorts. Application data is backed up. But, when you restore from an iOS backup, the operating system and all apps are restored to the latest version.
So, for instance...
That said, iTunes backups have not failed me in terms of restoring all data and apps, for instance, to a new device.
iCloud backup is a bit different in that you can specify which apps back up their data and which do not. Given the relatively low cost of iCloud backup storage, I leave them all on and my iOS devices back themselves up daily. I haven’t opened iTunes more than twice in the past five years.
Thanks for the info! Sounds like upgrading iCloud storage might be the way to go. I’m way out in the boonies, with only Satellite internet, so I’m hoping it’ll let you schedule backup times for off peak hours.
I suspect it’s going to be a game changer when iPadOS hits, w/ easy backups to USB hdd; though it’s prob a good idea to keep an online backup plan active for extra insurance.
With iCloud backup, I've been told that there is a gotcha in that a few apps (apparently Auria Pro is one) don't back up their data to the cloud. So, I am redundant using iTunes backups and iCloud backups.
I have never lost any data. Auria Pro included. Last restore was over a year ago though.
[edit] Checking the settings where you can include/exclude apps from backing up data to iCloud, Auria Pro is not listed with the option. So that makes me wonder if possibly something has changed and it doesn’t back up to the cloud. Not gonna do a restore to find out.
[edit 2] I would always take an iTunes backup for safety before doing a wipe and reload anyway. To me iCloud is just for convenience and insurance. The best backup is worthless if you haven’t done it recently.
[edit 3] Doesn’t iTunes have an option to automatically back up to the desktop wirelessly when iTunes is running and the device is idle? I know it used to. I hate iTunes so much that I don’t even care to check.
As far as I can tell all of the current iTunes backup features are now in the finder in Catalina.
iTunes lives. It’s just been a bit dismembered.
Auria Pro projects are never backed up to iCloud, and never have been AFAIK.
So if you restore an iPad from the cloud, Auria projects will not be restored.
I always save my Auria projects to DropBox once they're finished, that way I have the option to reload them at a later date (and delete them from my iPad). However it's also worth pointing out that if you save a project to Dropbox from Auria it doesn't overwrite previous versions correctly, so you should always delete the previous version from DropBox first (if there is one). Otherwise duplicate files will not be overwritten in DropBox but will have a suffix appended in brackets, which obviously completely breaks the project if you try and reload it later.
I'm weening myself off Dropbox as the app is getting worse and worse by the day, especially on the Mac where it's a resource pig and they seem to only want big corporate clients and not the likes of us these days ;-)
Anyway, I've recently purchased Auria (I'd take too much notice of the flak it gets in the past, but actually so far I'm really liking it) and have been saving projects to iCloud drive (via "Save Project to Other App" to the files app) and it seems to work well. It saves the project as a Zip archive. You are given the option to "replace" or "Keep Both" every time you save the project to files so this helps keep the file management simple.
This will be a lot nicer in iOS 13 as every time I use Files I'm driven mad that I can't create a new folder in the save screen!
Yes that makes sense, and because the file is zipped prior to saving you won't get the issues with the files not being overwritten correctly. I would imagine for many people this is a superior approach to the built-in DropBox save system.
Also, I find Files a much better solution to get audio into many apps, including Auria Pro. To start with I was a bit miffed that there was no option to import from Files in the menus in AP but then realised you could just open the files app as a slide over window and drag audio files straight into the timeline which is a much nicer approach IMVH(umble)O.
Also, the cheapest Dropbox plan is £9.99 a month for 2TB. I pay £2.49 a month for 200GB of iCloud storage which is enough for me now. But 2TB is only £6.99 a month in iCloud. For once, Apple is actually cheaper! :-)
The Dropbox system in Auria Pro is the worst way to do it (in my opinion) even if your destination is Dropbox. It must be an artifact of days gone by when Dropbox was pretty much the only cloud service. When you use Auria's save to dropbox, it uploads each file one at a time using Dropbox's upload protocol. It can easily take 10 times as long to save with that method as Save to Other App (even if the other app is Dropbox!).