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User profile for user: er051
er051 Author
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'You do not have enough access privileges for this operation'?

The iphone ''IPHONE NAME'' cannot be synced. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation.


The above warning message comes up any time I try to sync my iphone and I've no idea how to fix it. I recently had issues with my laptop (Windows 7). A system restore was needed and after that it would only load a temporary user profile which was limited and my itunes had no music in it. I set up another user profile (it is not the administrator profile) and simply copied everything over to it. It is this new profile that I'm now using.


The itunes in the new profile has all my old music and files etc so I hoped I could just sync my iphone to it. However, when I tried, the above message came up at around step 3 of the sync each time.


Does anyone have any suggestions what I could do to make it sync again?

iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Jun 5, 2012 3:05 AM

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User profile for user: AheadOfTheCurve
AheadOfTheCurve
User level: Level 1
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Aug 14, 2015 3:05 PM in response to er051

I resolved this problem on my Windows 10 Pro with iTunes 12.2.2.25 installed by doing the following:

  1. Click Start;
  2. Select ALL APPS at the bottom of the Menu;
  3. Scroll down to iTunes and expand the folder;
  4. Select iTunes by using RIGHT-CLICK with your mouse:
  5. Select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR from the resulting dropdown.
  6. Viola, problem solved. Both SYNC and BACKUP now work flawlessly.
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