iTunes 8.1 "Verifying iPod" bug?

my itunes/ipod touch is stuck in the same thing. .

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my solution, just keep ejecting it, waiting for itunes to say "are you sure you want to eject your ipod while it is syncing?" or some ** like that,

then click okay or whatever,

then after it goes back to your music screen, unplug your ipod, then plug it back in



it didnt work the first time, but after about 3 times, it worked,

just my solution,, hope it helps someone else

same thing here. updated to 8.1 and just plugged in the itouch today and just freezes....

My son just verified that he left his ipod plugged in for about 5 mins and it finally verified and sync'd it. Seems to be working now.

I hope Apple comes out with a fix for this soon. Ridiculous!

having same problem... computer has 3gb ram + NVIDIA XFX geforce 9400 gt graphics card. + 3.2GHz processor, so no problems there. must just be itunes :S

Same problem here. I'm running a 8-core Mac Pro. iPod Touch hangs and never syncs.

I am having the same problem, even after deleting ipod backup, resetting the synch history and upgrading to iTunes 8.1.1 last night.

My iPod Shuffle and my iPod Nano do not have any issues. Only the Touch.

Yep, me too. Why don't Apple appear to be doing anything about it? It seems pretty widespread, yet the problem is ongoing? Fairly disgraceful if you ask me. Does anyone have any remedy?

Hi! I have a 5th Gen 30GB iPod. I really had no issues with either my iPod or iTunes until 3 days ago when iTunes tried to verify and sync my iPod the moment I plug it in. Then a window would appear telling me that iTunes can't sync and then asks me whether to quit or don't quit. I've set my iPod to manually-manage and I'm worried iTunes would eventually be able to successfully autosync and all the songs from my iPod would disappear since there are no files in my library. Please help! I don't want to lose all those songs since I don't have any backup for them! Thanks in advance.

Yep, same problem here. Unplugging and replugging (after cancelling sync on iPod or in iTunes) works eventually.

WEll i had the same problem, what worked for me was that i uninstalled itunes an installed the oldversion, once that happens everything works just fine, i also made it so that it wont sync with anything unless i make it. i solved everything

Unfortunately that doesn't work for me - the whole shambolic 'verifying ipod' lark freezes up my (brand new) computer completely and I have to reboot. Complete and utter ****, Apple. ****.

If I uninstalled and installed an older version, would I have to manually reload all my music?

I managed to revive my ipod touch (Generation 1) two times after pressing on the button that said that it needed to be restored and updated. But it took me about 10 hours of triyng to get it back to life and a lot of praying. I thought it was a problem of my ipod but now that i see your troubles i know i'm not alone. Well the itunes still wants me to press again the restores and update but i'm not gonna do that a third time. The problem is that it doesn't recognized the ipod o r that it has a problem writing to it , so now i have and ipod that only checks my email, and surfs the web, no music, no videos and no syncing with my pc. I hope apple solves this problem because for 545 bucks i paid for the 32 gb model I think I don't deserve a rotten apple.

Might as well add my complaint to the list. After updating to 8.1.1.1 Itunes won't open when I connect my Ipod.

This solution worked for me on my macbook.
1. Go to preferences -> Devices
2. Delete the ipod touch backup
3. Uncheck 'disable auto sync'
4. close out of itunes and make sure you ipod is not plugged in.
5. open iTunes with iPod unplugged
6. return to preferences -> Devices and check 'disable auto sync'
7. plug in ipod and manually click sync

Message was edited by: shanebrion

also ensure that manually manage music is checked