Authorization failure

Trying to transfer purchases from iPod Classic to iTunes. Failure message says the computer is not authorized and instructs me to go to Account/Authorizations and authorize. I've done so several times, but keep getting the same failure message.

Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Jul 16, 2019 3:46 PM

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Niel

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Jul 16, 2019 3:50 PM in response to morryschorr

Click here and follow the instructions.

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