I found a similar question from a few years ago but no answers, and this started happening to me a few days a go after maybe a month of not syncing my ipod.
any ideas?
160gb ipod classic on windows 10 with latest versions of both windows and itunes.
iPod classic 160GB (Late 2009), Windows 10
sometimes it also says i do not have enough access privileges for this operation.
also, it syncs half my library before this happens, which is the frustrating part. i have restored the ipod several times to no avail.
there is no sign of corruption. it syncs half my library like normal than the second half comes up as "insufficent permissions" followed by the 5000 error for a bunch of individual songs that are the same everytime i try.
It's not stated what you have already tried, so... Shut down (power off) computer and disconnect all USB devices. You can leave standard USB keyboard/mouse connected, if used. If your computer is a laptop, connect its power adapter so that it's not running on battery power. Do this to Reset (restart) your iPod
Learn how to reset your iPod - Apple Support (see section iPod with a click wheel)
Start up computer, run iTunes, and connect iPod to a direct USB port on computer, by itself. Then try to sync it again.
If that does not help, do a Restore on the iPod using iTunes. This erases the iPod, reinstalls its software, and sets it to default settings.
Then, connect iPod to a direct USB port on computer, still by itself, and try syncing again.
Have you tried to enable disc use.
Maybe this information helps you
See Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows.
Check the hard drive with the source media for errors.
See the break-up large transfers method in Re: Corrupt iPod classic.
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what i have tried up to this point.
i have restored the ipod several times
uninstalled and reinstalled itunes
restarted the computer and the ipod, with only the ipod connected via usb
messed around in permissions
checked for disk errors
tried the large transfer method mentioned above but am still having the same problem where there is half of my library that will sync effortlessly and the second half that will keep returning the "unknown error (-5000)" for specific songs and than say i do not have permissions to update.
any other ideas?
One possibility is that your iPod's hard drive is becoming unreliable. That is why the iPod does Restore fine and initial syncing works. But part of the hard drive's storage media is faulty, and when a large transfer (like a full library sync) gets to that certain point on the hard drive's storage media, errors occur.
uninstalled and reinstalled itunes
If you did this already, you probably did not completely remove iTunes and related software components. This Apple document lists the components of an iTunes installation, and the precise order to uninstall them.
Remove and reinstall iTunes and related software components for Windows 7 and later - Apple Support
After reinstalling the latest version of iTunes from here
try doing a Restore and syncing again.
If you still have a problem, here's a test that takes iTunes syncing out "out of the picture." Do another Restore. In iTunes, on the iPod's Summary settings screen, Enable disk use (and Apply) if it's not already. The iPod's "disk" appears in Windows as a USB storage device. Quit iTunes. Use Windows to copy a large amount of data to the iPod. You can create a folder on the iPod called Test and copy large files (or folders with large files) to that folder. It doesn't matter what data you use; you can even use your iTunes Media folder, or maybe a folder that has video files. Keep going until you fill up the iPod. At some point, do you encounter similar problems with copying the data to the iPod, or does it work smoothly without stalling or errors?
What are the HDD stats?
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stats are
retracts: 15
reallocs: 0
pending sectors: 0
poweron hours 2602
start /stops: 93592
temp current 28c
temp min 10c
temp max 53c
No reallocations or pendings shows the iPod's drive is healthy. Perhaps it is the source drive that has a problem?
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the probem started with an older usb 3 drive that i have been using for awhile but in the middle of the whole thing i moved to a new usb 3 drive and the problem persists, so i think it is fair to take that out of the running?
i did the full uninstall last night and restored and the problem persists!
i am working on the second part and will report when i see how that goes.
it seems more and more that it has to do with the permissions things, since even when i have nothing on the ipod and move the speficif albums it has been rejecting that they are rejected regardless, even when manually managed.
what more permissions can i check?
itunes could not copy song to ipod because unknown error occurred (-5000)
