iTunes 11.1.4.62 sync -50 error (iphone 5S, iPad air) caused by iphoto

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iTunes 11.1.4.62 sync -50 error (iphone 5S, iPad air) caused by iphoto

Hi

Hopefully someone here will be able to help because the phone help I got from Apple (in french) was very unhelpfull...

I am on an imac with the latest mavericks.

I noticed yesterday the -50 sync error, so I assume it started with the new iTunes update (which I did on jan 24th). Both ipad and iphone sync fine when I uncheck sync photos from iphoto (I always had that setting and never had a problem). When it is checked and I choose a few events to sync, the number of photos to sync never show up...

If I choose a folder of photos to sync instead it works fine.

I did restart everything, wipe the photos from my devices (by the way they communicate fine with iphoto directly), trash the ipod photo cache, if I use a new library with a few photos it sync fine.

I also did the repair permissions, rebuild thumbnails, repair database, rebuild database and I used iphoto library manager to rebuild my library, but nothing worked....

Also while I was doing all this, the com.apple.medialibraryservice crashed a few times, never happened before.

Anything else I could try before I start rebuilding one by one the event to see where the problem is?

I did see a few posts mentionning the xlm album data, but it was not very clear to me what they were recommending...

hopefully I did not forget to mention any important info 😉

thanks!

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Jan 31, 2014 1:40 PM

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jrlv2av8

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Feb 2, 2014 4:37 PM in response to antimere

Same issue here... Ipad sync fails with error (-50) when trying to sync iphotos. will sync if deselect iphoto sync. I have restored Ipad, downloaded iTunes again and installed, deleted iPod cache folder on iMac, installed all updates and still error 50. I am reluctant now to try to sync iphone as well and get same errors.

This is ridiculous!!!

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sberman

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Feb 2, 2014 8:24 PM in response to antimere

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1583

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jrlv2av8

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Feb 3, 2014 6:58 AM in response to sberman

The support link above is not applicable and was tried already. The conflict in my opinion has to do with iphoto sharing, icloud, photo streaming and itunes syncing. But I havent found a combination of settings to allow sync yet.

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antimere Author

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Feb 6, 2014 5:13 AM in response to antimere

Just wanted to add another piece of info I noticed. After I try to sync and get the -50 error messages, the QTKitServer-(933) iPhoto process shows up as not responding.....

I tried removing all my photo stream stuff but that did not help.

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Feb 22, 2014 9:10 AM in response to antimere

Hi, same problem. Any solutions yet?? Tried nearly everthing....

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jrlv2av8

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Feb 22, 2014 11:01 AM in response to zipfiglatscher

No solution here, I had less trouble when using a Dell than this new iMac with iTunes. After reinstalling and updateing everything, creating new library folder, moving files, resetting iPad, installing 3rd party software to fix any photo files, and trying every other fix on the web... still no photo sync with iPhoto. It will not recognize the iPhoto library no matter what I do. So my work around is not to sync with iPhoto but to copy all photos to a "my pic" folder and sync with that instead. So at least I can put all my pictures on my iPad. The down side of course is that I have 2 copies of pictures on my hard drive taking up twice the room. After wasting several days working on this I believe that this is an iPad problem and perhaps it will be addressed with future OS updates. I didn't have this problem until iPad updated to most current OS.

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jrlv2av8

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Feb 22, 2014 11:08 AM in response to jrlv2av8

One other note... I read a few posts about the size of some pictures and picture data not being compatible with iTunes and if you resize to some minimum standard size it may fix the problem. I have over 10K pictures in my folders and use Lightroom from Raw format to and the highest quality Jpeg size for storage. I wasnt about to try a fix on over 10,000 pictures.

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Feb 22, 2014 8:16 PM in response to antimere

I had been struggling with this issue for a couple months with Apple TV - my photos would not show up. Didn't matter too much. Then photos stopped syncing to my iPad and iPhone and after a couple days searching online, I have finally solved this issue.

There is a program called iPhoto Library Manager ( http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ ) It is only for Macs. I downloaded it and then had my iPhoto library rebuilt (previous attempts of doing this through iPhoto did not work). It takes a bit longer and scrambled the order of my albums (I had them chronologically), but when I checked some albums to sync, the total number of photos began showing in iTunes, which it did not do anymore. And now my photos are back on my iDevices.

Hope this helped!

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jrlv2av8

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Feb 23, 2014 8:05 AM in response to Apple Hippie

Thanks, but I also downloaded iPhoto Library Manager, rebuilt my iPhoto library and was still unable to sync.

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antimere Author

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Feb 24, 2014 1:02 PM in response to antimere

What I ended up doing to solve my problem is use iphoto library manager BUT instead of using their rebuild library function, I did rebuild event per event (at the end I would do a few events at the same time) my library. I did not try to transfer albums or other stuff.

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jyad

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Mar 9, 2014 3:06 AM in response to antimere

Same problem here, please apple help solving it. I disabled all photo sync. Deleted all photos in all iphones and ipad. still same problem. I stopped icloud. rebuilt iphoto database etc etc. still same problem.

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