Enabling "Sync Books" in iTunes wants to remove songs

Thanks for all your ideas - but nothing worked for me under iOS 6.0.

I have a couple of business PDFs on my iTunes and usually had them on my iPhone as well. Now this isn't possible any more, no copy/paste, no purchased-trick works.

Is also doesn't show any "books" in the capacity line (colored line at the bottom when syncing) at all.

Wonder if that has anything to do with that?

I really need these files on the phone, so what could I do?

Will erase everything, again ⚠, and try once more.

Am really frustrated, this cannot be SO difficult, hm?

Cheers for all.

@Zughafen, at least as a stopgap measure, you could download another PDF viewing app on your iPhone (Stanza and Kindle are free IIRC). You can copy PDF's from a computer to those apps through the "File Sharing" function.

Sync your device (no need to sync Books or do anything to erase your data -- just plug it in).

Click the device listing in the left-hand pane of iTunes.

This should display a summary page for your device, above which are several tabs (Summary, Info, Apps, Tones, etc.). Click Apps.

Scroll to the bottom of that page, which will show any apps on your device which can accept outside files. Click on the app you want to use to read the files, then click the "Add..." button at the bottom of the list of files on the right (the list may be empty). Then find the file on your computer, et voila.

Anyway, you should try the Transfer Purchases option once just in case -- I just did it myself and it appears to have worked.

I have just had this on my brand new iPad mini.

***?

I opted for the sync and delete in the hope I only have to re-install my music and TV shows once but I am not even slightly impressed by this bug.

Oh and it DOES delete everything, just as it says on the wrapper.

And apple wonders why ppl are going to Androids easy drag and drop features, Apple better start making it user friendly instead off all these headaches just to do simple stuff

Is it at all possible to add more apps to the lists of apps with privileges? For example, if I download the nook app, can I set that as a defult epub reader instead of iBooks?

This awful syncing behaviour is still happening in iOS7.0.3

From purchase, I have always had my iPad in iTunes set to "Manually Manage Music and Videos" and all "Sync" checkboxes turned off. It has only ever been associated with my desktop computer.

It has the following content:

Apps (downloaded on the iPad only)
Music, videos and PDFs (manually added via iTunes)

Recently I decided I wanted to change Books from manual to automatic syncing, leaving everything else manual.

So I set Books to "Sync All Books" (with the iTunes > Books folder on my PC). You'd think that would mean:

- Sync All Books from PC

- Leave Music and Videos to manual syncing

But no, syncing books turns off the "Manually Manage Music and Videos" option, like that makes any sense whatsoever.

So now all my music and videos have been deleted from my iPad. Just wonderful Apple, really stellar job.

It's quite simple, this is what your users want Apple:

To individually choose which media type(s) to automatically sync or manually manage. So:

1) Get rid of the "Manually Manage Music and Videos" option on the Summary screen, it's misleading. Or rename it to what it actually does.

2) When a user clicks a "Sync" checkbox, mark that for automatic syncing based on whether to user wants all or selected items, then when syncing, sync those and ONLY those items checked. Everything else leave to MANUAL.

I don't expect Apple to do anything about this, as usual, they know best.

And the situation is even worse now because of the iBooks app. You can still sync books from iTunes to an iOS device even if the books have been imported into iBooks--but you have to turn on books syncing in iTunes...and then you have the ridiculous problem of having all of your music and videos--just like you described.

So I have all of my books in iBooks and not in iTunes any more. There is no way to directly put those books onto an iOS device from iBooks. And I can't turn on books syncing in iTunes because it will delete all of my music on my iPhone. Really nice...not.

Scott Newman wrote:

....And I can't turn on books syncing in iTunes because it will delete all of my music on my iPhone.

You should always have all the media that you want on your device in your iTunes library, whether you manually manage or sync selected. If you've got yourself in a position where this is not the case then see the user tip Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.

tt2

Of course it's in my iTunes library. And it's on my iPhone and has been manually added over a long period of time. What I WANT TO DO is manually manage music and videos and automatically sync books. Why is that so very hard to for Apple to accomplish given all the changes they have made to iTunes over the years?

Further, there is no warning AT ALL in iTunes that if a user checks the box to auto sync books that the choice will also apply to music and videos.

"Of course" for you maybe, but sadly not for others which is why I offered the recovery tip in case it might help you or anyone else reading the thread.

I quite agree that the sync options on each tab should be independent of each other, but I'm just a fellow user. You can let Apple know what you want via iTunes Feedback or sign up for an Apple Developer Connection account and make use of Apple Bug Reporter.

tt2

There is a way to individually move books onto iOS devices.

First, identify the folder that all your books got moved to when you downloaded iBooks. It used to just be a folder in iTunes Media. Now you have to go hunting for it, and pretty deep too.

/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/i Books

Vwha-la, there are your books. I suggest making an alias (read: shortcut) and placing that alias someplace easily accessible. Now, select which book you want to add individually, and just drag it onto the iOS device icon in iTunes, as you would have before.

Not as intuitive as Apple champions, but not impossible. Hope this helps!

Copying from /Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/i Books doesn't work for me and is annoying anyway because the files there are not named as original.

This method does work for me, via dropbox... put the epub files in a dropbox folder on your Mac and then navigate to them via the iphone dropbox app. Then open each epub file in turn, it will give an 'unable to view error' but you can click the download button in the bottom right corner which gives the option to 'open in iBooks', click that and it imports into iBooks. It's a pain because you have to do each book in turn but at least it works.

Just use Aiseesoft iPad Transfer Platinum 7.0.16.19229 Multilingual

Copy all books,movies, music, ... to itunes.

Library in Itunes now contains all the existing books, ... from you ipad !

exactly!!! aint nobody got time to resync the whole music library just to put a single pdf into da phone!

I bumped into this issue today and found that the simplest solution is to start apache server on the mac, put the PDF into the /Library/Webserver/Documents directory and download it from the iOS device using the URL. To start Apache, see http://brianflove.com/2013/10/23/os-x-mavericks-and-apache/.