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iPhoto library won't sync to iPhone 4

Hi,

iTunes is no longer syncing my iPhoto library to my iPhone 4. Everything was syncing fine when I first got the phone, but, over the past week or so, it's stopped syncing photos.

Now, after attempting to start from scratch by deleting all the photos on my iPhone, iTunes won't sync ANY photos from iPhoto back to my iPhone. I've restarted my phone, computer, etc., force quit all photo-related apps on my iPhone, and tried various combinations of turning iTunes' photo syncing on/off, switching photo sync folders, etc., all to no avail -- I can't get my iPhoto library back on to my iPhone no matter what I do.

Anyone encounter a similar situation? (I've already sent feedback to Apple.) Thanks in advance.

MacBook (Late 2008) (2.4GHz), Mac OS X (10.6.4), 4GB RAM, 1TB HD

Posted on Jul 10, 2010 10:44 PM

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Jul 11, 2010 12:26 AM in response to browe83

I'm having the same issue. My iPhone 4 no longer mounts (or is visible) as a drive within iPhoto, and will not sync photos via iTunes either. No error messages are reported during sync within iTunes, and my option to "sync photos" is enabled...but it is not working.

I've noticed that my iPhone 4 DOES show up, however, if I sync iTunes while iPhoto is open. Suddenly, the iPhone is visible in iPhoto, but it cannot read files from it.

Please help!

Jul 14, 2010 7:24 AM in response to cs_1988

I don't think this problem is isolated to the iPhone4 - I've just noticed I can't sync any selected iPhoto albums on my iPhone 3G v3.1.3 (I don't want to update to v4 since I've heard of the slowing down issues on the old iPhone 3G). I can however upload photos from my iPhone to iPhoto.

I haven't tried a photo sync for a while but the only thing I think I've changed recently is to update to iTunes 9.2 (61). These sort of things seem to happen all the time now with Apple - an update on one thing will totally bork something else on another thing, which is why I try & hold off on updates until the inevitable problems surface. I'm getting so incredibly bored of it...I guess my next phone will be an Android...

iPhoto library won't sync to iPhone 4

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