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Q: updated ipad to ios 8 lost books and pdfs in ibooks

How do I get my books and pdf's back after updating to ios 8 on ipad.

Posted on Sep 23, 2014 6:50 PM

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Q: updated ipad to ios 8 lost books and pdfs in ibooks

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  • by Ultraj1004,

    Ultraj1004 Ultraj1004 Oct 19, 2014 5:49 PM in response to King_Penguin
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    Oct 19, 2014 5:49 PM in response to King_Penguin

    Nothing happens. It says in limbo.

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Oct 20, 2014 12:31 AM in response to Joseph Polk1
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    Oct 20, 2014 12:31 AM in response to Joseph Polk1

    The way that books are managed changed with OS X Mavericks, not iTunes 12 (or Yosemite). You manage your books on your Mac via its iBooks app, but you still select and sync books to a device via iTunes, that has not changed.


    Connect your device to your Mac, select the device icon towards the top left of the iTunes screen, and select the Books category on the left-hand bar and you then select and sync books to the device

     

    sync books copy.jpg

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Oct 20, 2014 12:32 AM in response to Ultraj1004
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    Oct 20, 2014 12:32 AM in response to Ultraj1004

    Is that from downloading and using 'open in' in Safari, or syncing them from your computer's iTunes ?

  • by cabowser,

    cabowser cabowser Nov 26, 2014 4:19 AM in response to chloklet
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    Nov 26, 2014 4:19 AM in response to chloklet

    YES! This is the way to go.  On my ipad I searched iTunes Spotlight and it came up like an "itunes ap store" with books. At the bottom I selected purchased and there they were!  Easy!

  • by dinky2,

    dinky2 dinky2 Dec 21, 2014 8:58 AM in response to King_Penguin
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    Dec 21, 2014 8:58 AM in response to King_Penguin

    Yes, it makes perfectly sense to NOT include data in a backup. Why would you need that ?? I always make backups for fun, not to use them in case of an emergency or so. So that's why Apple only copy what THEY think is important. Stuff the customer. So first make a mess of an IOS8 update, leaving my iPad unusable and then allow me to restore only part of the content. Makes perfect sense to me.

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Dec 21, 2014 9:31 AM in response to dinky2
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    Dec 21, 2014 9:31 AM in response to dinky2

    Sync them back from the Books part of your computer's iTunes library, assuming that you'd File > Devices > Transfer Purchases when you had them on your iPad

  • by dinky2,

    dinky2 dinky2 Dec 21, 2014 2:22 PM in response to King_Penguin
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    Dec 21, 2014 2:22 PM in response to King_Penguin

    In my view this should be done automatically. Creating a backup is creating a backup. Excluding things which then must be backed up manually does not make sense. When I backup my iPad, I expect that everything is backed up and a restore will restore everything.

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Dec 22, 2014 12:19 AM in response to dinky2
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    Dec 22, 2014 12:19 AM in response to dinky2

    The contents of the iBooks, Music and Videos apps (and photos synced from a computer nor actual apps) are not included in a backup. An iCloud will redownload purchases that it can from the store, an iTunes backup will restore from the relevant part of your iTunes library.

  • by skywave-rider,

    skywave-rider skywave-rider Jan 2, 2015 12:06 PM in response to King_Penguin
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    Jan 2, 2015 12:06 PM in response to King_Penguin

    I wish I had read this thread before updating to iOS 8.1xxx.

    I lost all my .pdf files, a lot. All my books went away, but was able to recover those as they were purchased.

    The most important items were the .PDFs, which I created. It is a major problem. I have no idea why Apple did not let me, and us, know this was going to be a problem before updating. No one would think an OS update would trash your files, and yes, I should have moved them by emailing them one at a time, because the iTunes backup process is problematic and inscrutable. But I did not. It does not feel good. Using the iPad as a tool as opposed to a casual entertainment device is not possible for my needs. I wish I had solutions for others in my circumstance, but I do not. It's important to voice the problems though, because someone may be able to avert disaster if they read this thread.

  • by Maik1551,

    Maik1551 Maik1551 Jan 4, 2015 7:20 PM in response to King_Penguin
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    Jan 4, 2015 7:20 PM in response to King_Penguin

    HI. I have a problem i've read all the coments and i am afraid that i will lose my pdf from ibooks. I Have an ipad 4 generation with ios 7.1.2 and i have in it almost like 800 pdf, its like 7 gb of memory and i need to take those pdf from the ipad to an pc or a mac, and the major part of the problem is that many of those pdf pass the limit of mb that i can send in a mail, i have tried everything to pass them to a mac or pc and nothing work, those pdf are from internet and open them in ibooks i only have them in the ipad. I heard about icloud drive and i like to try it to pass the pdf from the ipad to an mac but i meet to have ios 8 i have already back up to icloud all the data in ibooks i was like 7 gb my major concern is that if i update to ios 8 and i lose all my pdf, could it be possible to restore them from the icloud back up?


    thanks for your time.

    sorry for my bad english

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Jan 4, 2015 11:15 PM in response to Maik1551
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    Jan 4, 2015 11:15 PM in response to Maik1551

    You've tried File > Devices > Transfer Purchases when connected to your computer's iTunes - if using a Mac with Mavericks or Yosemite on it then do File > Move Books From iTunes in its iBooks app. That has always copied over PDFs and/or epubs that are in the iBooks apps on my devices

  • by Ruadh2,

    Ruadh2 Ruadh2 Jan 10, 2015 10:10 PM in response to King_Penguin
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    Jan 10, 2015 10:10 PM in response to King_Penguin

    Dear King_Penguin

     

    I have just moved my son's iTunes from our family iMac to our MacBookPro, which will become his home computer for high school.  I followed the Apple instructions and moved the iTunes Media Folder and also the iPad backups from his account on the family iMac either by Firewire cable to hard drive or by gigabit ethernet via the router.  (Hardware and system details in my signature below)

     

    I found the same problem as above after I'd replicated his iPad to the "new" computer.  A number of his book purchases were missing from his synced iPad and from his iTunes.  Following your advice, we opened iBooks on the "new" MBP for the first time.  After signing on it found 59 books. No more could be found or moved from iTunes after that.  The 'missing' books were there, but only in iCloud and would needs be downloaded again.

     

    So, I went back to his account on the iMac which I'd not yet reset, and opened iBooks there.  Again he'd not used iBooks so it opened from scratch, and this time I used the Move from iTunes command and 79 books appeared locally, including the others that were only on iCloud for the MBP.

     

    Most of these "missing" books are textbooks which are between 1GB to 3GB and I don't want to re-download them from iCloud via slow ADSL2+.  How do I get them from the old iTunes account on the iMac to the new account on the MBP please?

     

    Ruadh

     

    iMac 21.5" Late 2009

    MacBookPro Late 2011

    Mac OS X 10.10.1

    Time Capsule / Airport Extreme 2014

    WD My Book Live

    Apple TV

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Jan 10, 2015 11:43 PM in response to Ruadh2
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    Jan 10, 2015 11:43 PM in response to Ruadh2

    Your books should be stored under : /Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents (change 'username' to the user account name being used on the Mac) - they may not show in there under there book name, they have an alphanumeric name, but when copied and added to the iBooks app on your other Mac they should show in the app with their proper name.

  • by Ruadh2,

    Ruadh2 Ruadh2 Jan 11, 2015 6:37 AM in response to King_Penguin
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    Jan 11, 2015 6:37 AM in response to King_Penguin

    Thanks King_Penguin

     

    I found those files, transferred all the files in the "Books" folder, including the Books.plist file, to the "new" computer.  I replaced most but not all of the few existing files in the drive including the .plist file (which I figured should reflect the copied files, not the previous ones in the drive), where the destination files seemed to be older versions. I then opened iTunes and nothing seemed to have changed.  I then rebooted and synced my son's iPad and the files all reappeared as if by magic. 

     

    So, to transfer iTunes content to a new computer, you seem to need to do the following:

    Thanks again.

  • by Ruadh2,

    Ruadh2 Ruadh2 Jan 11, 2015 6:12 PM in response to Ruadh2
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    Jan 11, 2015 6:12 PM in response to Ruadh2

    Oops!  In previous reply, last dot point, I omitted the critical folder in the path between Containers> and Data> from King_Penguin's instructions. It's >com.apple.BKAgentService>

     

    Sorry!

     

    Ruadh

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