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Q: updated ipad to ios 8 lost books and pdfs in ibooks

How do I get my books and pdf's back after updating to ios 8 on ipad.

Posted on Sep 23, 2014 6:50 PM

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Q: updated ipad to ios 8 lost books and pdfs in ibooks

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  • by George Mcgee,

    George Mcgee George Mcgee Jan 12, 2015 8:46 AM in response to kitafraya
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    Jan 12, 2015 8:46 AM in response to kitafraya

    I have the same problem here. All of my personal PDF files are now missing from iBooks on my iPhone 6. This must be due to a recent update because I recently had the files on my iPhone. Apple really needs to get its act together. Stop pushing new updates and tighten the screws and fix existing bugs.

  • by Artsyness,

    Artsyness Artsyness Jan 30, 2015 9:28 PM in response to King_Penguin
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    Jan 30, 2015 9:28 PM in response to King_Penguin

    I am reading your responses and you are completely ignoring the fact that the iBooks pdfs and saved documents are completely disappearing after the upgrade.  I have spent all day restoring , then upgrading, when I do this and open iBooks I can see all the books...for about 2-4 seconds then they disappear.  This has reoccurred 4 times in a row today. So I repeat and restore to factory, I back up from iTunes, I upgrade to ios 8, then open iBooks only to have years of stored documents appear for a few seconds after the restore/upgrade only to disappear again!!!

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Jan 30, 2015 11:59 PM in response to Artsyness
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    Jan 30, 2015 11:59 PM in response to Artsyness

    Have you read my previous posts on this thread ? An iTunes backup does not include any of your iTunes downloads, nor the contents of the iBooks, Music nor Videos apps (nor does an iCloud backup) - an iTunes restore looks to pick them up from your iTunes library (and iBooks app if using an up-to-date Mac).

     

    Prior to starting the update did you do File > Devices > Transfer Purchases to copy them over to your computer's iTunes (and if using a Mac then with iBooks on it then copied them over to that) ? Even though PDFs are not bought from iTunes the Transfer Purchases has always copied from over from my devices iBooks app. If not then the restore will be trying to copy your PDFs back, but won't be able to - so after a restore you might see how the iBooks bookshelf used to look with a 'memory' of the PDFs on it, which after a couple of seconds then updates to show the app's actual contents with missing PDFs/books disappearing. Restoring again-and-again won't make any difference unless you add the missing PDFs back to your iTunes (or Mac's iBooks) library so that it can restore them back.

  • by BJO1952,

    BJO1952 BJO1952 Feb 4, 2015 11:02 AM in response to Law267
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    Feb 4, 2015 11:02 AM in response to Law267

    Im the same, all my PDF which were work associated and downloaded from Emails as Business standards - had nearly 1000 all stored IBOOKS and across the my devices - iPad, Mac, iPhone 5 and iPhone 6.....I did the software upgrade on my  iPhone 6 and iPad and and mac and all DISAPPEARED and cannot get them back on, I have them in my own files on my mac but again cannot import them to Ibooks.....I still have them on my iPhone 5 as i have not upgraded that software......does anyone know how to get them back into Ibooks

  • by RCL_1,

    RCL_1 RCL_1 Feb 15, 2015 2:26 PM in response to King_Penguin
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    Feb 15, 2015 2:26 PM in response to King_Penguin

    apple....just shoot me....

    king penguin, i am looking for     "File > Devices > Transfer Purchases" you keep talking about.

    all i have on my itunes are symbols


    issue: updating an ipad 2 from 6 to 8.1.3, using a pc windows 7 home for the start,

    another option would be to use windows 8


    worry: that i will lose notes, books, etc.


    completed a backup to computer, and to icloud, according to settings it should be backing up all apps to icloud.


    started update and advise that there are purchase items on the ipad and that i should transfer them..

    i have done synching, item by item music, ibooks etc from my device, but they do not show in my computers itunes files....


    why cant apple have a simple connect that outlines where the data is stored.....so one can grab it and move it. the only obvious stuff are photos. everything else is hidden.....

    frustrated




  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Feb 15, 2015 11:14 PM in response to RCL_1
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    Feb 15, 2015 11:14 PM in response to RCL_1

    It's a menu option on your computer's iTunes

    file devices transfer purchases.jpg

     

    Syncing is from your computer's iTunes library to the device, not the other way round

  • by Cassie Cookie,

    Cassie Cookie Cassie Cookie Mar 12, 2015 8:34 PM in response to King_Penguin
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    Mar 12, 2015 8:34 PM in response to King_Penguin

    Deleted post.  Going to re-boot computer and go from there.

  • by TerrieLynn,

    TerrieLynn TerrieLynn Mar 15, 2015 2:48 PM in response to kitafraya
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    Mar 15, 2015 2:48 PM in response to kitafraya

    I thought I lost them all. But... Do you see the bottom bar with "my books" on the left and "purchased" on the right.

     

    Hit My books and you find some. Not all. OMG you think... because where is the library...with all my categories.

     

    At the top of the page is a blue "Books" with arrow pointing down.  Tap it!!!!! Y E S, there they all are.

     

    If you want book covers, or written our or other info, look to the upper left-hand corner and hit the little lines and there are your choices.

     

    <happy dance> for me finding all my books!!!!

  • by Rey Aguacate,

    Rey Aguacate Rey Aguacate Apr 26, 2015 2:29 AM in response to TerrieLynn
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    Apr 26, 2015 2:29 AM in response to TerrieLynn

    Where is that bottom bar with "my books" on the left and "purchased on the right"? Are you talking about itunes?

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Apr 26, 2015 8:55 AM in response to Rey Aguacate
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    Apr 26, 2015 8:55 AM in response to Rey Aguacate

    I think that they are referring to the tabs at the bottom of the iBooks app

  • by designer_meg,

    designer_meg designer_meg May 12, 2015 11:56 AM in response to kitafraya
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    May 12, 2015 11:56 AM in response to kitafraya

    AIRDROP THE FILES FROM YOUR MAC TO YOUR IPAD - THEN OPEN IN IBOOKS!!

    >> spotlight - ibooks - open that folder - select all pdf's you want to transfer - share - airdrop - BOOM!!

     

    Had this problem myself and came to this miraculous realization while beating my head against my iPad!

  • by SpanishCity,

    SpanishCity SpanishCity Jun 7, 2015 3:09 AM in response to King_Penguin
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    Jun 7, 2015 3:09 AM in response to King_Penguin

    MY PC iTunes doesn't show the File etc top bar so I can't follow the actions you describe to enable me to restore my PDF's and Music to new iPad Air2 from iPad3 computer backup. Everything else has transferred OK. I still have the iPad3 with intact content. What next ?

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Jun 7, 2015 1:22 PM in response to SpanishCity
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    Jun 7, 2015 1:22 PM in response to SpanishCity

    Try command-B and see if that gets the drop-menus to show, or pressing Alt might get them to temporarily show.

     

    Note that a backup does not contain any of your music or iBooks content (nor any content of the Videos app or the actual apps), a restore will look to pick them up from the relevant part of your iTunes library

  • by seastones07,

    seastones07 seastones07 Jun 18, 2015 8:37 AM in response to kitafraya
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    Jun 18, 2015 8:37 AM in response to kitafraya

    There was a time when I loved all things Apple, but increasingly I am beginning to hate how Apple interefere with my stuff.

    I am on vacation 2000 miles from my iMac and iTunes backup, I have just settled down to read some of my stored iBooks and pdf's on my iPad and similar to other posts here the titles flashed up for 2-3secs then they disapeared, and there is absolutely no way that I can get them back.

    Thanks Apple for wasting my time and messing up my iPad.

    If Apple included flash storage in their devices this would not have happened.

    Am I mad about this ?  You bet.

  • by Ruadh2,

    Ruadh2 Ruadh2 Jun 18, 2015 5:08 PM in response to seastones07
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    Jun 18, 2015 5:08 PM in response to seastones07

    | If Apple included flash storage in their devices this would not have happened.

     

    Dear seastones07

     

    Lots of Apple devices (eg. Most MacBook models) have flash storage.  For those Apple devices that don't, what's the hardware connection to this iBooks software issue?

     

    No Apple iOS devices have Adobe Flash software.  Again, if this is what you meant, how does not having this software affect Apple's programming of content transfers in iBooks with system upgrades?

     

    I found this problem annoying and time wasting.  It also annoys me that Apple is non-transparent about how it is fixing this problem (or not).  However, I still find overall that Apple wastes less of my time than I did when I used PCs

     

    As for your problem, if you look earlier in the thread there will be a good fix.  Take your time and read King Penguin's posts. I have a post where I summarise in detail what worked for me when I applied King Penguin's advice when transferring iBooks content to a new computer.

     

     

    Ruadh

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