Can't Sync Photos to iPhone...

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Can't Sync Photos to iPhone...

Hey everyone, I've got a weird issue that just popped up. I've had my iPhone since last year, but recently switched to an iMac as my main computer about 3 months ago. Since that time, I've never synced any photos to my phone, until today.

In iTunes, I went to the Photos tab for my phone, clicked on Sync photos from: iPhoto, then selected the specific album I wanted synced. It starts the process then I get this error message that pops up:

"The iPhone "Howard's Phone" cannont be synced. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation."

Everything else works and syncs fine with my phone. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

24" Aluminum Intel iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 27, 2008 1:25 PM

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rubberry

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Jul 27, 2008 1:50 PM in response to hfthomp

Find the folder called iPod Photo Cache and delete it, then in itunes go to edit, preferences, sync and clear the sync history. I also cleared selected albums and did a sync first, but you may not have to. Once you have done that, select your albums and do a sync.

Worked for me.

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hfthomp Author

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Jul 28, 2008 5:42 AM in response to hfthomp

Thanks! That worked. I was a bit leery at first to accept the advice from a Vista guy but what you said did the trick. Thanks so much.

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rubberry

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Jul 28, 2008 1:25 PM in response to hfthomp

Ya us Vista guys are experts at fixing things now 🙂

I have however had to reboot my iphone more often than my vista machine... go figure, maybe it's how us vista guys drive their electronics. Glad that did the trick.

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Mr_J

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Aug 4, 2008 2:22 PM in response to hfthomp

This worked for me as well.

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brucer33

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Aug 11, 2008 4:55 PM in response to Mr_J

I am having a similar issue with Itunes 7.7.1.11 and Iphone 2.0.1 and Photoshop elements 5.0.

When I try to sync the iphone the photos tab does not show any photos from photoshop elements 5.0. Previous to upgrading the Iphone and Itunes software I had over 2000 photos being sync'ed.

Will the solution posted here clear up my problem?

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kbaz

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Aug 24, 2008 9:37 PM in response to brucer33

So I was running across the same problem - whenever I was syncing it was saying I didn't have the privileges I needed to complete sync. This was the problem...

It turned out I had certain things checked off for sync, but I wasn't actually syncing anything. For example, I had it set to sync Movies - but I didn't select any movies to sync. When I got rid of that my iPhone synced fine.

Bottom Line: Don't check a category box for syncing if nothing is selected under it.

+P.S. I'm using iPhone 3G 2.0.1 - but it's probably the same for all. Hope this helped.+

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