iTunes stuck on last stage of sync, "Waiting for items to copy", NEVER COMPLETES??

I'm having the same problem with it hanging when trying to sync my ipad2. I did not have this problem yesterday with my iphone4S.

I've tried:

turning off genius

emptying cache on mac & ipad

unchecked music, movies, tv, photos

restarting mac/rebooting ipad2 after all of the above and retrying to sync

let it sync overnight - was still hanging this morning

turned off wifi sync

it hangs on:

applying changes

syncing artwork

copying

- whichever the last step is basically

I'm afraid to update my ipodtouch to iOS5 now; I've wasted 24 hours micromanaging updates and syncing. SRSLY ***.

With my iPod Touch, I found that ejecting it in iTunes gave a warning, but did not seem to negatively affect anything. I.e., the artwork is all there, and it seems that everything else is. It certainly is a but, but interrupting it didn't hurt it.

Understand, I did this when I felt it had sat their doing nothing for anough time. 🙂

-fred

Could this be related to the version of the Mac OS?

How many people with this problem are running OS X Lion? Nader H, above, mentioned one step he took was to update to Lion. Could that have been the fix?

I'm on Snow Leopard, and def having the problem...

Leopard on a G4 PowerBook.

Nader H's approach worked for me.

I did not disable iCloud, but did disable wifi sync, and backed up to iTunes.

I removed all ringtones, music, podcasts, and books (already had no photos). I left all the apps on.

I backed up again and did a restore, then added one at a time ringtones, music, podcasts, and books, synching between each step. Everything synched in a reasonable amount of time (~30 minutes for the larger components like music).

Then after synching via USB a few more times for good measure, I enabled wifi synching. That completed really quickly now.

I also re-enabled backup to iCloud, and it only took a minute to update a backup it found there from yesterday.

For me, the endless synching issue is resolved for now.

I am using Lion, and I am having the problem.

I am using the latest version of Lion (10.7.2) and the latest version of iTunes (10.5) and have the same problem.

I'm having the same problem--what's being waited for changes from try to try Here's my report from another, related thread:

Re: Problem to sychronize iOS 5 itunes 10.5

Thanks, philredman. Your fix worked for my iPhone4S.

Ok guys i have a fix that should work for everyone. Just do a complete restore from itunes, this will redownload the 5.0 firmware. Just make sure you backup your phones settings so you can import them back afterwards. After the phone is restored just sync Music ect one by one.

For me it stuck on syncing videos from my iphoto library. And only solution is to uncheck "include video" under photos tub in itunes. I try everything but never sucsseed. Any workaround for this?

And may be anyone knows how to redownload ios5 ? Because it seems when i do restore procedure, it restores from the previos downloaded pakege, that may be broken.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have tried everything that is possible and still keeps saying this bulshit line....!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone else have any other ideas or im just gonna give up and break my new iphone!

I have exaclty the same problem, my iPhone get stuck all night long on that screen "Waiting for items to Copy" , "Syncing Genius Data to.."

I use Windows 7 64bits, with iOS 5.

I hope they fix this issue really soon!!, Apple is really dissapointing me with all their issues...

Thank you! After struggling with this for a few days...your suggestions helped. Did exactly what you suggested Nader H and I'm now past this issue. 🙂

iMac 27" 3.1Ghz i5

OS 10.7.1

iTunes 10.5

iPhone 4s 64GB

iOS 5

I was getting stuck and I didnt want to wait anymore and I found this thread...I didnt want to restore and re-sync...

So I tried this...

Click on iPhone to the left of itunes..

Select music tab

Added one more artist

Clicked apply and presto!

It looks like album art and genius stuff was stuck....

Enjoy!!! 😉