updated ipad to ios 8 lost books and pdfs in ibooks

I am reading your responses and you are completely ignoring the fact that the iBooks pdfs and saved documents are completely disappearing after the upgrade. I have spent all day restoring , then upgrading, when I do this and open iBooks I can see all the books...for about 2-4 seconds then they disappear. This has reoccurred 4 times in a row today. So I repeat and restore to factory, I back up from iTunes, I upgrade to ios 8, then open iBooks only to have years of stored documents appear for a few seconds after the restore/upgrade only to disappear again!!!

Have you read my previous posts on this thread ? An iTunes backup does not include any of your iTunes downloads, nor the contents of the iBooks, Music nor Videos apps (nor does an iCloud backup) - an iTunes restore looks to pick them up from your iTunes library (and iBooks app if using an up-to-date Mac).

Prior to starting the update did you do File > Devices > Transfer Purchases to copy them over to your computer's iTunes (and if using a Mac then with iBooks on it then copied them over to that) ? Even though PDFs are not bought from iTunes the Transfer Purchases has always copied from over from my devices iBooks app. If not then the restore will be trying to copy your PDFs back, but won't be able to - so after a restore you might see how the iBooks bookshelf used to look with a 'memory' of the PDFs on it, which after a couple of seconds then updates to show the app's actual contents with missing PDFs/books disappearing. Restoring again-and-again won't make any difference unless you add the missing PDFs back to your iTunes (or Mac's iBooks) library so that it can restore them back.

Im the same, all my PDF which were work associated and downloaded from Emails as Business standards - had nearly 1000 all stored IBOOKS and across the my devices - iPad, Mac, iPhone 5 and iPhone 6.....I did the software upgrade on my iPhone 6 and iPad and and mac and all DISAPPEARED and cannot get them back on, I have them in my own files on my mac but again cannot import them to Ibooks.....I still have them on my iPhone 5 as i have not upgraded that software......does anyone know how to get them back into Ibooks

apple....just shoot me....

king penguin, i am looking for "File > Devices > Transfer Purchases" you keep talking about.

all i have on my itunes are symbols

issue: updating an ipad 2 from 6 to 8.1.3, using a pc windows 7 home for the start,

another option would be to use windows 8

worry: that i will lose notes, books, etc.

completed a backup to computer, and to icloud, according to settings it should be backing up all apps to icloud.

started update and advise that there are purchase items on the ipad and that i should transfer them..

i have done synching, item by item music, ibooks etc from my device, but they do not show in my computers itunes files....

why cant apple have a simple connect that outlines where the data is stored.....so one can grab it and move it. the only obvious stuff are photos. everything else is hidden.....

frustrated

It's a menu option on your computer's iTunes

Syncing is from your computer's iTunes library to the device, not the other way round

Deleted post. Going to re-boot computer and go from there.

I thought I lost them all. But... Do you see the bottom bar with "my books" on the left and "purchased" on the right.

Hit My books and you find some. Not all. OMG you think... because where is the library...with all my categories.

At the top of the page is a blue "Books" with arrow pointing down. Tap it!!!!! Y E S, there they all are.

If you want book covers, or written our or other info, look to the upper left-hand corner and hit the little lines and there are your choices.

<happy dance> for me finding all my books!!!!

Where is that bottom bar with "my books" on the left and "purchased on the right"? Are you talking about itunes?

I think that they are referring to the tabs at the bottom of the iBooks app

AIRDROP THE FILES FROM YOUR MAC TO YOUR IPAD - THEN OPEN IN IBOOKS!! 😀

>> spotlight - ibooks - open that folder - select all pdf's you want to transfer - share - airdrop - BOOM!!

Had this problem myself and came to this miraculous realization while beating my head against my iPad! 😀

MY PC iTunes doesn't show the File etc top bar so I can't follow the actions you describe to enable me to restore my PDF's and Music to new iPad Air2 from iPad3 computer backup. Everything else has transferred OK. I still have the iPad3 with intact content. What next ?

Try command-B and see if that gets the drop-menus to show, or pressing Alt might get them to temporarily show.

Note that a backup does not contain any of your music or iBooks content (nor any content of the Videos app or the actual apps), a restore will look to pick them up from the relevant part of your iTunes library

There was a time when I loved all things Apple, but increasingly I am beginning to hate how Apple interefere with my stuff.

I am on vacation 2000 miles from my iMac and iTunes backup, I have just settled down to read some of my stored iBooks and pdf's on my iPad and similar to other posts here the titles flashed up for 2-3secs then they disapeared, and there is absolutely no way that I can get them back.

Thanks Apple for wasting my time and messing up my iPad.

If Apple included flash storage in their devices this would not have happened.

Am I mad about this ? You bet.

| If Apple included flash storage in their devices this would not have happened.

Dear seastones07

Lots of Apple devices (eg. Most MacBook models) have flash storage. For those Apple devices that don't, what's the hardware connection to this iBooks software issue?

No Apple iOS devices have Adobe Flash software. Again, if this is what you meant, how does not having this software affect Apple's programming of content transfers in iBooks with system upgrades?

I found this problem annoying and time wasting. It also annoys me that Apple is non-transparent about how it is fixing this problem (or not). However, I still find overall that Apple wastes less of my time than I did when I used PCs

As for your problem, if you look earlier in the thread there will be a good fix. Take your time and read King Penguin's posts. I have a post where I summarise in detail what worked for me when I applied King Penguin's advice when transferring iBooks content to a new computer.

Ruadh

#Ruadh2

Perhaps you should read my post again. I realise that KingPenguin has posted some very helpful information, but this does not help me when I am so far away from my home computer and backup. I had hoped that all of my iBooks and pdf's that I had stored on my iPhone for reading when on vacation would still be somewhere on my device not on a backup computer 2000 miles away.

My comments concerning flash storage was perhaps unclear. I actually meant that I would like to have a removable flash storage slot for a microSD card or similar, hopefully in this way the IOS would not wipe it or erase items from it without checking first, surely this could be possible. Apple's continual push to the use of iCloud is just an annoyance to me.

Previous posters who have lost valuable work documents must surely be very angry.