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jeg815 Author

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itunes freezes when sycing iPad

My first sync went fine and was fast. I then noticed a few hours later that when I connected my iPad it took about 5 minutes before it began to sync with iTunes. iTunes completely freezes (spinning ball), then the iPad will begin to sync, then it appears the iPad is still syncing but the progress bar is also frozen. I have to leave the iPad alone for almost a half hour for it to do a full sync. I even restored it to factory settings and still have the same problem. Any ideas? iTunes, OS X is all up to date.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Apr 5, 2010 11:45 AM

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bfed

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May 27, 2011 4:59 PM in response to jeg815

Found this article

3. My iTunes hangs while syncing photos to my iPad.

So everything is progressing along fine, your apps sync, then your music and video content syncs, then, inexplicably, the process just seems to stall for minutes—then hours. What's going on? It seems that iTunes can get a bit confused when it organizes photos for iPods, iPhones and iPads. If you have previously synced photos to another Apple peripheral through iTunes, it can cause a freeze-up. The solution: Open the photo folder that iTunes is synced to, look for the folder named "iPod Photo Cache" and delete it. Then try syncing again and it should work

Oct 20, 2011 9:06 PM in response to Michael.Johnston

oh my god thank you!!!

itunes freezes when sycing iPad