iBooks not syncing with iTunes

I tried what you said, but it didn't work for me. Thoughts?

The solution did not work for me either, are there any other suggestions to fix this issue? Thank you.

I'm also having problems with syncing.

iPad syncs to iPhone and vice versa, but on the mac none of the collections I create on the iOSes shows up. This problem pops up for years with syncing - I usually had to reset the sync-Services to make Calendar and Contacts show up again.

But I've given up on this. I don't want to spend anymore time in this bug. I won't read on my iPhone anyway.

But a properly writen CardDAV-Dialouge on OS X - ah wait: macOS - would be "terrific". ;-)

The only items that show up in my iBooks are the ones already in my iTunes account - to which I can no longer add books of PDFs. Unfortunately the solutions suggested here do not work. Has anyone actually solved the issue yet?

Thanks for that Lilly. I've wasted a whole Sunday morning trying to figure out where the PDFs and ePub books had gone from my iPad and iTunes.

Your answer has fixed it for me and I now have all of my camera manuals and guidebooks back where I need them, on my iPad. 🙂

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work on Mac OS X Sierra. Did you update to Sierra and had the books visible?

When will all these icloud problems finally be over? Apple should fix these kind of problems (ordering 10'000 of their employees to do so if necessary) instead of letting users run into the same old problems over and over again. Every now and than the whole login/logout-, turn off/turn on orgy starts again. Unreliability is a major issue, steals lifetime from users, feels very bad.

I already know by now, that - sometime in the future - I will loose a whole lot of personal data, because they just don't get this thing (icloud) work right. The question is not "if" but only "when".

It's pretty obvious that this is going to happen. (Actually already happened before... when icloud drive was first invented, it did not work properly over months (apps using icloud syncs did mess up my data).

And yes: I'm just about to enter another icloud on/off login/logout orgy again, since my collections do no sync no more.

Phew!

Same issues with Sierra - I've tried removing all the iBooks prefs, cookies etc. Toggling iBooks on/off in iCloud Drive...still doesn't work. Essentially anything I add just gets deleted as it syncs with the library (which is empty). Nothing uploads.

A simple toggle on/off of the sync in the iCloud settings does NOT fix this problem anymore.

Obviously Apple misprogrammed ibooks (or the ibooks sync with the icloud) for the mac during one of the last updates.

ibooks on iOS devices still syncs (collections) with the icloud (and between in each other), ibooks on the Mac doesn't.

Unfortunately not even a complete logout out of your icloud and a re-login does help!

iBooks for the Mac just won't sync to icloud.

BEWARE: Login out of your iCloud account on the Mac has become a time consuming and thrilling ("horrifying") experience in case you turned on documents and desktop folder sync to the icloud.

To completely logout and login again has changed from "done in minutes" into a procedure which can easily take half a days up to several days time.

Trying to log out of your icloud on the mac will initiate a download of all your icloud data onto the harddrive of the mac. And the logout will not be sucessfully as long as this download is not completed. In my case the first attempt to log out resulted in the download getting stuck after 4.96GB. After 7 hours of waiting I cancelled the logout procedure. Which is a thrilling thing to do, as during the download your desktop will be completely emptied from all the documents on it... when cancelling the process the desktop will restore, but how can you know for sure...

Just after the first (failed) try to log out, I tried it again, since I still wanted to fix the ibooks sync problem. I let the download happen over night... and in the morning it seemed to have worked. After 1 1/2 days I had finally sucessfully logged out of my iCloud account. I logged in again and my desktop and documents folder were restored (taking hours after waiting again), BUT ibooks still does not sync...

I do not recommend to anyone to log out of their iCloud account, just for trying to resolve the sync problem of a single application. It not worth the time and most probably won't solve the problem.

In the case of ibooks for the Mac I'm pretty sure Apple messed up the syncing and will have to release an update to fix this.

In general: we would now definitely need an app specific "icloud sync reset button" in each and every app using icloud sync in order to enable us to manually trigger a sync or restore the sync. Login out of the icloud has become such a hassle and is a way oversized procedure just to try to reset the icloud sync of a single app.

exquisitely simple yet brilliant

thank you

Unfortunately, I don’t think this is a bug. If you look more carefully at the history of iCloud and particularly iBooks sync with iOS there there has been a continuos tendency to “enclose” Apple users in having access only to books their purchased. In other words iBooks is becoming a book store only, not a book preview/reading app. You can confirm that in the fact that they have never allowed PDF’s to have bookmarks synced, although it could have easily been implemented.

Not so good times ahead in the world of Apple, it seems to me.

The only thing that really concerns me is that I don’t have a solid alternative to it on iOS. If I’d found it I’d drop iBooks ages ago.

Not to mention Dante’s h ell iTunes turned into…

I managed to fix iBooks syncing in the end, but it was quite a complicated process. I realised that migrating apps from my old Mac had caused issues on my clean Sierra install. The only way to get it up and running again was either to set up a clean user account (wasn't looking forward to that), so I decided to to delete every cache or plist file I could find in my user library (NOT system library!!!) relating to iBooks in my user account instead. Files relating to nsurlsessiond were also deleted as this is the process that is active when uploading iBooks. Rebooted and it worked. Now iBooks syncing seems to work reliably.

If you have the same issue and want to try this I'd back up your iBooks library first before reimporting, or perhaps focus on the nsurlsessiond files first and see if that triggers sync.

Sounds like a pretty serious hack to me, but I’m on my wits end with this so I might give it a try. Are you certain you don’t have any issues within the OS X after that?

Thanks for the tip.