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Mac - PhoneView: >"View and search your texts and multimedia messages, even when your iPhone isn't connected to your Mac. PhoneView automatically backs up your messages whenever your iPhone is connected. Messages can be exported as PDF files, text or XML."

Windows - TouchCopy >"View and Copy SMS and MMS messages from your iPhone to your computer."

Both apps do a lot more than what I've quoted above, but you asked about SMS messages.

I use PhoneView myself and it's fairly powerful, considering that you don't have to jailbreak in order to use it and it does automated backups when you connect your iPhone (which I have turned off, but the feature is there). It looks like TouchCopy has a similar feature set for Windows, although it doesn't appear to <em>automatically</em> back up the iPhone's data.

You can transfer your iTunes store purchased apps and music directly from your iPhone as detailed here https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20509

If you have music ripped from CDs or downloaded elsewhere, you will need to use third party software. I've used in the past TouchCopy to transfer all my iPhone content to my new computer, worked very well... http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

You can transfer your iTunes store purchased apps, books and music directly from your iPhone as detailed here https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20509

If you have music ripped from CDs or downloaded elsewhere, you will need to use third party software. TouchCopy is a good one to try, as it will copy all music, movies, TV shows, and books from your iPhone to iTunes on your new computer. There's a free trial version here... http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

You can transfer your iTunes store purchases directly from your iPod as detailed here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

For the rest of your music, such as songs you ripped from CDs, you will need to use third party software such as TouchCopy here http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

I personally used TouchCopy after a recommendation on Apple support communities. They also recommend PhoneView, it's worth checking this article out... https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

You need a third party app for this, such as TouchCopy here. http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

I had it recommended to me on Apple support communities, worth checking this article out too... https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

If you haven't encrypted your backups this will work: http://www.lexcycle.com/content/stanza-book-restore-tool

Another option is to use an iPhone file browser (like Phoneview, Touchcopy, or iExplorer) to pull the files directly off your phone. This information is from the FB group, but I've verified it myself: > I used TouchCopy 11 to retrieve my Stanza books from the iPod. It wasn't cheap ($25) but it does allow me to see all of the application folders on the iPod and transfer content back to the PC. It also acts as a iTunes replacement, allowing me to transfer stuff back and forth without all the "Apple silliness" of iTunes. The only issue is that Stanza saves the metadata for each book in a separate file, so the files are numbered rather than named - you have to download the contents of 10 numbered folders. In the view I get with TouchCopy, the folder /Documents/.Stanza/Library (note the period in front of Stanza) shows 10 numbered folders, each of which contains multiple sets of 3 files (epub, image and thumbnail). The numbers correspond to last digit assigned to the file by Stanza when they were uploaded - for example, folder /Documents/.Stanza/Library/1/ includes files numbered 101, 101.img, 101.thumb; 111, 111.img, 111. thumb, etc. It is the files without an extension that are the epub files (on Windows you can use Antrenamer to add the epub extension to files). The top-level, Library folder only shows the most recently uploaded files on that PC. The numbers are pretty incomprehensible - you have to open each file to discover what it is.

If sync your iPod with iTunes, your iPod music could be wiped as iTunes will try to replace your iPod libary with your empty iTunes library. There are third party apps that get around this though. TouchCopy is the one I used to copy all my iPod content to iTunes. Once you've copied it all to iTunes, you can safely re-sync your device.

http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

You can transfer your iTunes store purchased music directly from your iPhone as detailed here https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20509

If you have music ripped from CDs or downloaded elsewhere, you will need to use third party software. I've used in the past TouchCopy to transfer all my iPhone content to iTunes on my new computer, worked very well... http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

You can transfer your iTunes store purchased apps and music directly from your iPhone as detailed here https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20509

If you have music ripped from CDs or downloaded elsewhere, you will need to use third party software. I've used in the past TouchCopy to transfer all my iPhone content to my new computer, worked very well... http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

You can transfer your iTunes store purchases directly from your iPod as detailed here https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20509

For the rest of your music, such as songs you ripped from CDs, you will need to use third party software such as TouchCopy, see here.. http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

There's a really good guide on Apple support communities here on how to sync your iPhone to a new computer... https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

Seems you can only transfer your iTunes store purchases with iTunes http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

For the rest of your music, they recommend copying it to your new computer using either Phoneview on a Mac or TouchCopy for Windows. I used TouchCopy and found the $25 price tag worth it for the amount of music I had on my phone. http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

You can transfer your iTunes store purchases directly from your iPhone as detailed here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

For the rest of your music, such as songs you ripped from CDs, you will need to use third party software such as TouchCopy. http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

I had it recommended to me on Apple support communities here, worth checking this article out... https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

You can transfer your iTunes store purchases directly from your iPod as detailed here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

For the rest of your music, such as songs you ripped from CDs, you will need to use third party software such as TouchCopy. http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

I had it recommended to me on Apple support communities here, worth checking this article out... https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

You could always download all the iPod transfer programs and see if you can make do with their free trials! I didn’t have time for that, so I went with a program recommended on Apple support communities – TouchCopy. It cost $24.99 but it was worth it as it copied everything from my iPod to my new computer and has a bonus of lifetime free updates. http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

For this you will need a third party program, unless all your iPhone music was purchased on iTunes, in which case you can just transfer purchases using iTunes. For all other music that’s on your iPhone, like songs you ripped from CDs, use a program called TouchCopy - there’s a free demo that will save 100 songs for free. Full version is $24.99 and has no limit on the number of songs transferred http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

This is a tricky one as Windows cannot read the Mac-formatted iPod's file system format natively. When iTunes in Windows asks you to restore the iPod - it wants to format it using the PC file system format, at which point you'll lose your music.

The Mac, on the other hand, can read Windows PC formatted disk drives and so will work with either PC or Mac formatted iPods.

If you still have access to a Mac, you should backup your iPod music on the Mac. You will need third party software for this - TouchCopy is the one I used, there's a free demo download here http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

Then you'll need to format your iPod to your PC. Then, use iTunes on the Mac to reload your music back on your iPod. Finally, you will need again use a program like TouchCopy to transfer your music from your iPod to your new PC.

When I looked into it, this seemed to be the only way, if anyone knows a better way let me know.

I used TouchCopy, which is not free, but has a free trial which will copy 100 songs from your iPod to your Mac. http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

The full version will copy an unlimited number of songs, so was worth it for me at $24.99, as I had literately 20,000 songs on my iPod classic that I needed to copy to my new Mac. All now safely on my new Mac.

I used this software (apparently. It was installed on my computer, and I know I have done this before) and I assume it works pretty well. It has been a while since I used it, but I dont remember having problems with it.

http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php

Without Jailbreak, i've found the following applications.

Touchcopy

Phoneview

Have not tried them myself, but good luck!