I have spent the whole Sunday trying to sync my Ipad2 and two family Ipods with Itunes. As always Itunes returned dozens of cryptic error messages and once again I ended up loosing fotos and documents as due to endless errors I was asked to "configure a new device".
I hope Apple's social media sentiment scans will pick up this message:
Apple, I am your ideal traget group but your screwed Itunes sync mechanism will make me buy any Android device I can get my hands on in the future. Apple, you are wasting my time and you totally suck.
Apple rant over
Syncing Apple IOS devices
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35449 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Maybe the stuff these guys develop will help.
http://www.copytrans.net/
I use their free CopyTransManager for moving music onto an iPod instead of iTunes because (a) I dont have to keep an 'iTunes library' as well as own preferred MP3 folder arrangement, and (b) iTunes has wiped 50Gb+ of MP3's off the iPod more than once.
From the description I think its their iLibs tool that might be of use.
http://www.copytrans.net/
I use their free CopyTransManager for moving music onto an iPod instead of iTunes because (a) I dont have to keep an 'iTunes library' as well as own preferred MP3 folder arrangement, and (b) iTunes has wiped 50Gb+ of MP3's off the iPod more than once.
From the description I think its their iLibs tool that might be of use.
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"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- KVRAF
- 5256 posts since 16 May, 2002 from Brisbane , Australia
I'm with you Frank
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1039 posts since 13 Sep, 2006
Thanks. It is interesting: once you check around you hardly find anyone who does not experience syncing problems with iTunes, especially on Windows. I am surprised Apple gets away with this so easily. Well, now there is iCloud...but that is a whole different topic on its own!whyterabbyt wrote:Maybe the stuff these guys develop will help.
http://www.copytrans.net/
I use their free CopyTransManager for moving music onto an iPod instead of iTunes because (a) I dont have to keep an 'iTunes library' as well as own preferred MP3 folder arrangement, and (b) iTunes has wiped 50Gb+ of MP3's off the iPod more than once.
From the description I think its their iLibs tool that might be of use.
I will check the sw you are suggesting. Sounds good and seems to be much less hassle!
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- KVRian
- 1068 posts since 25 Jul, 2007 from Calgary
I would likely blame all the record companies before Apple. If they didn't have to worry about permissions, syncing would be a heck of alot easier. Likely the simplest solution is to always make sure that all your IOS devices are using the same iTunes store username. Once you get that going- you can sync up to 5 devices (or is it 10 now- maybe it is 5 computers and 5 ios- can't remember the mix or limit).
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1039 posts since 13 Sep, 2006
iTunes syncing constantly fails on all sorts of content - and that is for Apple to fix!JavaJ wrote:I would likely blame all the record companies before Apple. If they didn't have to worry about permissions, syncing would be a heck of alot easier. Likely the simplest solution is to always make sure that all your IOS devices are using the same iTunes store username. Once you get that going- you can sync up to 5 devices (or is it 10 now- maybe it is 5 computers and 5 ios- can't remember the mix or limit).
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- KVRian
- 621 posts since 5 Aug, 2002 from United States
I know I will get slammed for this .... but....
As one who syncs two computers to 2 iPhone 4's and 2 iPad 2's..... and a 6 year old iPod.... I must say most of the problems people seem to have is that they really have never taken the time to learn iTunes. It all works, and works fine. You just have to invest a little reading time to "get it".
To me iTunes is not the most user friendly piece of software Apple makes, but once you get your head around it, it works well. That said, I am really digging iCloud... and it is only going to improve.... and since I buy no content (except apps) from Apple, I can see me leaving iTunes in the next year or so....
As one who syncs two computers to 2 iPhone 4's and 2 iPad 2's..... and a 6 year old iPod.... I must say most of the problems people seem to have is that they really have never taken the time to learn iTunes. It all works, and works fine. You just have to invest a little reading time to "get it".
To me iTunes is not the most user friendly piece of software Apple makes, but once you get your head around it, it works well. That said, I am really digging iCloud... and it is only going to improve.... and since I buy no content (except apps) from Apple, I can see me leaving iTunes in the next year or so....
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1039 posts since 13 Sep, 2006
On Google submit search term Itunes syncing error. How many hits do yo get? At the time of this post the answer is 8240000, so over 8 million hits.
Even if what you say is true (peps need to learn iTunes), wouldn't you agree that the sheer volume of issues indicates that somethings should be improved/fixed on Apple's side as well?
When I am syncing my IOS devices the question is not whether I get error messages. The question is which error message I will get this time!
Even if what you say is true (peps need to learn iTunes), wouldn't you agree that the sheer volume of issues indicates that somethings should be improved/fixed on Apple's side as well?
When I am syncing my IOS devices the question is not whether I get error messages. The question is which error message I will get this time!
Dewaine wrote:I know I will get slammed for this .... but....
As one who syncs two computers to 2 iPhone 4's and 2 iPad 2's..... and a 6 year old iPod.... I must say most of the problems people seem to have is that they really have never taken the time to learn iTunes. It all works, and works fine. You just have to invest a little reading time to "get it".
To me iTunes is not the most user friendly piece of software Apple makes, but once you get your head around it, it works well. That said, I am really digging iCloud... and it is only going to improve.... and since I buy no content (except apps) from Apple, I can see me leaving iTunes in the next year or so....
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thebaggytrouseredone thebaggytrouseredone https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=169368
- KVRist
- 450 posts since 30 Dec, 2007
I got a message saying could not backup device as it could not be saved to this computer. I had no problems until I installed the 10.5 update.
simon
simon
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- KVRist
- 113 posts since 16 Feb, 2003
slam!Dewaine wrote:I know I will get slammed for this .... but....
You just have to invest a little reading time to "get it".
yeah that's crap, itunes is extremely buggy and syncing and restoring ios devices is notoriously unstable both on pc and mac. The evidence is there for anyone to see.
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- KVRian
- 623 posts since 24 Apr, 2003
I had that problem a few weeks ago with 4.x; iTunes would say it couldn't make a backup.thebaggytrouseredone wrote:I got a message saying could not backup device as it could not be saved to this computer. I had no problems until I installed the 10.5 update.
simon
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2529
http://www.thedailybuggle.com/itunes-fa ... up-iphone/
What worked for me is deleting the backup from within iTunes, and then also deleting the backup cache manually, then reconnecting/syncing with iTunes. iTunes was then able to rebuild the backup. I read that a hard reboot of the iDevice might work, too. But, I had to delete the backup to get back to normal.
C:\Users\..\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\