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iBooks not syncing between iOS7 and Maverick

iBooks not syncing between iOS7 and Maverick

Just updated my MBP to Mavericks and only a few items have synced from my phone to the mac in iBooks. The phone was also updated to iOS7.0.3 (the latest) today too before the Mavericks update.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is this a bug which will hopefully be fixed shortly? Or is there something I can do to resolve this?

I have a number of .pdf´s in iBooks (.pdf books) on the phone and would obviously want everything on the phone accessible on the computer, as is the idea.

Many thanks for your help/advice.

Susan :S

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 8:58 AM

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Feb 5, 2014 2:45 AM in response to NucleophilicRxn

Perfect: Thanks!

Feb 5, 2014 9:44 AM in response to SCS4Mac

So, I have been LOST in this discussion trying to find out what I originally searched a solution for: I have PDFs on my IPAD and cannot get to my DESKTOP macbook pro. I can sync all I want without ANY issues from desktop to ipad ie macbook pro -----> ipad. What I cannot do is sync the pdfs in ibooks on my IPAD onto my macbook pro and have them show up in ibooks. ie ipad --------> macbook pro = complete fail. Can anyone please respond and provide any work arounds they have found to this? Thanks 🙂

Having ibooks seperate from itunes is ridiculously stupid and makes as much sense as the faceook ios now needing Messenger 😟

Feb 5, 2014 10:28 PM in response to markfar

This is correct, when i run repair disk permissions i see lots of problems under IBooks. Now some are showing up

Feb 16, 2014 7:06 AM in response to SCS4Mac

Solution, for me at least: After adding books to iBooks (I used drag & drop), in iBooks, select "File" menu, "Move Books from iTunes". This caused a sync with iTunes and then sync to IOS worked.🙂

Mar 14, 2014 2:03 PM in response to HimynameisJoe

Solution for me. For some reason it put all of my PDF's in an Unknown folder under Music in Itunes. Here is where I found them although since I store and backup to an external drive your file structure might look a bit different.

Music/Itunes/Itunes Media/Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album

That is it. They were all right there! Nothing else I tried led me to a solution and I searched through everything.

Hope this Helps someone out.

May 24, 2014 10:59 AM in response to SCS4Mac

works for me - i am using mavericks and ios7.1.1 on iPad. I add books to iBooks and then i close iBook/quit it, open iTunes, and select my iPad and choose sync and all the books are added as well as my collections.

Jun 4, 2014 9:57 PM in response to SCS4Mac

Found a fix. If you're trying to sync ibooks from ios 7.1.1 to Mavericks 10.9.3, go to Store > Authorize this Computer, and then enter your apple id username and password that you used to download the books on your ios device. Once this is done, all your books should appear under "All Books". This just worked for me. Hope i could help (:

iBooks not syncing between iOS7 and Maverick