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iPhone won't sync after Snow Leopard Upgrade

Upgraded to 10.6, and now for some odd reason, I can't sync any photos from iPhoto to my iPhone OR AppleTV. It's as if iTunes can't communicate with iPhoto. If I turn off the syncing of photos within iTunes, the iPhone syncs fine. Any ideas, or RTFMs?

Thanks,
Craig

iMac 24 + MacBook Air + MacBook Pro + TimeCapsule + iPhone + iPod, Mac OS X (10.6), The box said install Winders2003 or better, so I installed Solaris

Posted on Aug 30, 2009 7:58 AM

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Aug 30, 2009 12:12 PM in response to pardthemonster

Yep, tried that too... The last time they synced successfully was Friday before I upgraded to Snow Leopard. I reset the permissions within iPhoto, as well as using the disk utility. I'm thinking about uninstalling iTunes, and reinstalling. Sounds like such a Winders solution, but I'm out of ideas. Maybe it's time to call Cupertino...

Is there a reset permissions in iTunes? I can't seem to find it.

Aug 30, 2009 8:07 PM in response to amnesiac

I called Apple support when iTunes hung on connecting an iphone, ipod or nano. They suggested that I delete the com.apple.iTunes... preferences (I had 4) in home/preferences/. I stopped that problem. Maybe it could work for you:-) It means that you have to re-setup iTunes when you start it next, so go gently (I didn't 'cos I was on the 'phone to support - and had to do it again 🙂

Aug 31, 2009 6:06 PM in response to delnorte

After plugging in my iPhone and getting the beach ball again, I decided to leave it. It didn't say "syncing" in iTunes, but I was going to sleep and thought I'd just leave it overnight to see what happens. ABout 6 hours later, I woke up to see the message, "sync complete" so at some point the sync worked.

However, having the phone take 6 hours to sync is not ideal.

Aug 31, 2009 8:37 PM in response to eggsandwich

well done!

I tried it again - beach ball for 30 minutes and "not responding" according to Force Quit Applications window, but 16 threads in Activity Monitor, then AM dropped the NR and iTunes was responsive again. I speculate that iTunes had something to do to my files (>140GB) on a one-off basis...

I have reported this to Apple tech support but, as yet have had no feedback, as my call went to voice mail.

iPhone won't sync after Snow Leopard Upgrade

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