Time Machine Backup – How to Restore to Another Account

With iOS devices there are a lot of issues that can be happening between iTunes and the iPod. Backups can take a very long time depending on the amount of application data or the size of the camera roll at the time of the backup. Troubleshooting these issues go from very simple troubleshooting steps such as updating iTunes and restarting your computer all the way to the more advanced troubleshooting steps. If you are getting an error code, this can help you determine the exact issue, there is a really great article for troubleshooting the iPod on apples support site @ http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275

Some steps that you can take to help isolate the issue would be trying a different USB cable (if you have one) or different USB port (should be USB 2.0), if you are connecting to USB through USB hub or extender try plugging it directly in to the computer, creating a test windows user account can also save a lot of headaches by letting you know it is something specific to that user account, and trying to sync music on another computer. I would try walking through that article and if your still having issues after that to try contacting apple or setting up an appointment at an apple store to make sure there is nothing wrong with the actual hardware of the iPod. Best of luck

Yay! After many attempts I finally restored my iPhone to the state that it was at when I entered the Apple Store. I manually backed up my iPhone to a brand new iTunes library that my iPhone was not being synced to. So to properly restore from back up I needed to restore from a brand new iTunes Library. At first glance, this seems wrong. I saw my iPhone after this initial restore with zero non-Apple applications, so at this point I gave up on this method. But this is expected. To continue, after restoring from a brand new iTunes library then open the iTunes library that the phone was synced to and wait for everything to sync back. Once this process completed I had the correct home screen arrangement and everything, minus the status of the Podcasts that I had listened to, which, with a 1001 item Podcast library saddening me. It only restored unplayed/played status from the last time I synced the device.

Note: The iPhone remembers where the last play point was, if it was in the middle of the podcast, but doesn't show it. (i.e. Podcast Episode X shows its unplayed. I click on it and it starts playing with 3 minutes left) I want to get this information visible again so that I can see what episodes I have played completely through.