iTunes syncing: unknown error (-50)

tombcpa... My brother have the same error... -50 issues. Tried all the solutions and elsewhere as well..

Managed to prove to the Apple tech in a Singapore shop after 3 trips and finally they honor the warranty. Problem was solved after that.

Hope that is hope for answers for others who faced this issue.I worried for those who either do not have it under warranty and wondered should they get a new ipod or not... At least with my experience, a new ipod helped solve -50 error issues.

I have an iPhone 4, an iPod Touch 2Gen, and a an iPod Classic 160Gb. The Touch and Phone sync without a problem. When this problem started coming up on my Classic, I figured the hard drive in it was dying after 2+ years, so I replaced it.

This problem is occurring with my brand-new Classic too. I tried copying my music using an external drive on two different Macs running the current version of iTunes, with similar results, over and over again. This renders the iPod Classic unusable. I NEVER have a problem copying music to my Phone or Touch. A check of the hard drive using Disk Copy reveals no problems. Apple needs to figure out what the limitation is and either announce it or fix it. This is happening to too many people.

This worked for me, after trying all kinds of different things for ages:

http://www.yourlocaltech.com/resolve-vista-scan-and-fix-error-when-plugging-in-i pod-or-other-devices/

After I'd done the steps metioned in the article above, I restored my Ipod to factory settings and BOOM! It worked again.

It's NOT spam, hopefully it works for you too.

Thought I'd thow in my experience with this since Apple will not acknowledge it.

Using XP ( I know, it's old), had iTunes for about 8 yrs. I have a shuffle (3rd gen) and just bought a Nano (6th gen).

Could not get it to sync, constant 'unkown error (-50). The shuffle started doing the same when trying to sync.

I spent 5 days and nights looking for a solution including the 'genius bar' at Apple. Was ready to give up and return the Nano. I followed every advice I could find here on trying to get it to work. What was the connection between both devices getting same error constantly?? THE LATEST VERSION OF ITUNES.

Yes, every solution starts the same: Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes installed, WRONG!

The only instuctions that I followed was the 'how to uninstall iTunes'.

I then did a search on prev versions of iTunes and downloaded ver 10.1.1.

ALL WAS RESOLVED. No more errors, both devices synced with ease. Everything works perfectly.

Not once did I see a suggestion of going back to a prev version to solve the problem.

The latest version may be perfect and I am not slamming it, but for me, my os, my problems with this (-50) error.

The only thing that worked was going back.

-peace

I found out through Experience of this code and others. YOU SHOULDN'T PLAY WHAT EVER UR SYCING/DOWNLOADING/CONVERTING/WATCHING ON OTHER COMPUTER.

It over whelms itunes and a certain errors happens

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I've been having this problem myself.... been rather peeved about it. I'm trying the whole "check the Convert bit rate box" fix as I type this... it's slow going and I get super nervous everytime it stays on a song too long. Apple you need to get this crap fixed whatever it is. This has been going on since this time last year.