iPod Classic won't sync after 9.2 update

"wait fir 5 minute" worked here too. 10.5.8, iTunes 9.2, iPod classic 80 GB. now works OK...

Confirmed. After the initial 'beachball' sync the first time the iPod is connected after updating to 9.2, everything works fine from then on.

9.2 same thing I thought I had a hang (spinning wheel, iPod Classic) also told that iTunes was not responding - once more I left it for about five minutes and it came back.

Another poor update.

Same thing here. Very annoying. Verifies the iPod classic, then freezes up. Well hello beachball. Hope the FIX is coming soon....

Um, nevermind. Waiting for a few minutes works. Whoa - now syncing is like 4 times as fast. NICE.....

I discovered I had the same problem with my 160 GB iPod Classic last night, and after trying multiple troubleshooting techniques, I resorted to restoring my iPod. Big mistake. While iTunes performed the restore perfectly, I still couldn't sync any content to the iPod and was left with an empty iPod.

I eventually discovered this thread and discovered I was not alone. After a few you said to wait five minutes, I tried waiting out the spinning beachball, but iTunes never recovered. So I just used Time Machine and went back to 9.1.1. The iPod synced up fine once again and it has been transferring my 28,000-plus music files for more than 8 hours now. I will wait until Apple resolves this issue in the next update.

Thanks for letting me know. That's what I was afraid of, and didn't want to wait for USB 2 to update everything and still find that it didn't work.

I waited for at least five minutes and nothing happened, so I will wait as well. Maybe it's Leopard and not a Snow Leopard issue with the five minute wait. I haven't upgraded.

I thought it was my ipod hdd might had problem. I've to revert back to old itunes, just don't care about it as long it still can sync my tunes. Thanks for highlighting this issue. Hope that apple will resolve this ASAP.

I'm curious - has anyone tried a FIREWIRE iPod?

I've got a 3rd generation (touch wheel) that syncs via firewire. Of course the battery is long gone, but it works fine in a cradle.

Since some people are reporting issues with 5G iPods (I have one of those, also a 3 yo Nano, several iPhones, etc) I wonder how a really old iPod is doing.

I'm going to hold off on this update for a while. No rush for me.

Hi

Left my 'classic' in the dock and eventually (after a couple of minutes of beach balling) it started to sync.

Great advice, thanks!

No doubt Apple will sort this out with a quick fix, but hold tight until they do.

I had the same problem but on a PC.

Waiting worked... eventually. It was considerably more than five minutes though. More like half an hour.

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Thank you all!.... I waited the 5 minutes and the ipod did in fact sync.

FinallY!

Ooh, good idea! Thanks for the tip!

I had this message as well. My ipod is fine but now new additions to itunes don't show in my library even though they're in the itunes folder and end up on the ipod when I sync. So bizarre!

Thanks for these posts! I finally got my 80gb to sync. The "verifying" and Itunes freeze lasted for a little over ten mins before it started syncing. Then, it proceeded to re-copy 3200 songs that I guess it deleted. Total sync time: 30 mins. All appears to be working fine now though. Good luck everyone! Hope everything works out.