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Photos Library is not yet available

I am constantly getting the "iTunes cannot sync photos to the iPad “Melbourne” because your Photos Library is not yet available. Please try again later." mesage when trying to sync my iPhone & iPad - does anyone know how to fix it?

iPad Mini, iOS 9.0.1, also happens on my iPhone

Posted on Sep 26, 2015 7:28 PM

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Nov 29, 2015 11:26 AM in response to debono.george

I figured this out and fixed mine - was getting same error with Photo's (not iPhoto) when syncing with my iPhone.


Go and find your file with your Photo Library. I found mine by going into Finder, then clicked on Pictures folder and found file in there. Mine was titled Photos Library 2.


Right click on it, then click on Get Info. At bottom under "Sharing & Permissions:" I changed all 3: my user name, staff, and everyone to be Read & Write. After this the error went away.

Dec 3, 2015 3:54 PM in response to debono.george

See iTunes cannot sync photos to the iPhone because your photo library is not yet available. Please try again later??

Downloading iTunes again solved the problem for me. I left the iPad plugged in: at the end of the download the iPad was successfully synced.

iTune 12.3.1.23 before and after the download. I suspect a cache or preference file was refreshed by the download.

Photos Library is not yet available

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