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Claridge9ne Author

Level 1

14 points

There are purchased items on the iPhone “X’s iPhone” that have not been transferred to your iTunes library. You should transfer these items to your iTunes library before updating. So how about a clue as to what's not transferred and how to?

There are purchased items on the iPhone “X’s iPhone” that have not been transferred to your iTunes library. You should transfer these items to your iTunes library before updating this iPhone. Are you sure you want to continue?

Sounds important. It might be helpful if I had a clue as to which purchased items have not been transferred and some instructions on how to transfer purchased items that have not been transferred. I would like to update my phone's OS to the latest release.

iPhone 4S, iOS 6, I would like to update to iOS6.0.1

Posted on Nov 8, 2012 7:40 PM

51 replies

LuLuToes

Level 1

4 points

Mar 8, 2015 11:16 AM in response to roaminggnome

File>Devices is fine- got to that okay- Thank you!

But Devices>transfer files is a no go, because "Tranfer Files" is gray-ed out, not ALLOWING me to select it. Please advise!

chidoobs

Level 1

0 points

Apr 21, 2015 9:35 PM in response to arbolton

Thank you arbolton, your resolution was the only thing that would make the error message go away for me even though I experienced this issue 2 years after you posted your resolution.

jsharrow

Level 1

8 points

Sep 5, 2015 3:41 PM in response to Stephen Kellett

It is 2015 and this is still an issue! Thank you for the post.

Sep 17, 2015 7:24 PM in response to JayMiller3

brilliant thanks

mforde40

Level 1

0 points

Mar 10, 2016 8:39 PM in response to machale

I know this is forever later but thank you so much! Nothing else above worked for me but this did! Finally upgrading my iOS from 7.0.4 from well over a year ago... Maybe 2!

CatAZ

Level 1

27 points

May 22, 2016 10:00 AM in response to Choosie

I did the right click as you suggested, all was going well, but it's been stuck in "preparing to copy to iTunes" for the last 10 minutes. Giving up

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