IPod nano sync problem "Cannot be synced,the required disc cannot be found"

I keep getting this error message when I try to sync music on my nano. It happened before so I took my nano to a Mac store where they "restored" (erased), it. Then I had to remove all iTunes files from my pc and re-install, which I did. I was able to sync one time right after that, but now that I uploaded more music I suddenly can't sync anymore. I have removed and reinstalled iTunes once again, but no success. I'm also not able to "restore ipod" from my pc, it just gets stuck in the process. On one attempt to sync I got an additional error message saying "iPod needs to be formatted for Windows, would you like to format/restore now?" I didn't try it, now I can't get that message to pop-up anymore. I've never used my iPod with anything but my pc, so not sure why it wouldn't be formatted all of the sudden. Please advise.

I am suddently having the same problem with a similar message. I've tried syncing to both my nano and my suffle and I get the message "Cannot be synced, the required disc space is not sufficient. I've emptied both appliances and still get that message when I try to sync. Even something as small as a single song.

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I have an ipod nano 4GB and use pc windows xp . since last year my ipod didnt sync any new songs saying "the ipod cannot be synced the required folder couldnt be found" and when i try to update the itunes version another error occured. plz HELP!!!!!!!!!

I have an ipod nano 4gb and use pc with windows XP. since last year my ipod suddenly didnt want to sync any new songs saying " the ipod "MOAMEN" cannot be synced. the required folder couldnt be found" and when i try to update the itunes version another error occurs and i dont know when i tryed to format ipod i didnt find "format" button. so plz give me suggestions instructions i extremely bored !!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Uninstall/Reinstall iTunes then try to rebuild the library.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1925 (uninstall/reninstall)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451 (recreate library)

Ipod can not be synced the required disc cannot be found

Can anyone tell me how to solve the error:
"ipod can not be synced the required disc can not be found.
I found a similiar post, but then lost it when my computer froze up
and now I can't locate it.
Thanks

Oh my God! I'm having the exact problem with my new 30G iPod with video, which I got as a replacement with my warranteed iPod. It resets itself when I sync, or even when I restore the iPod. I was on the phone for two hours with multiple Apple technicians, who couldn't figure out what's wrong and asked me to send it for repair. You know what? They couldn't find anything wrong with it, so they sent it back. Not surprisingly, it still doesn't work. To be sure that it's not my system that's causing this problem, I tried syncing on two computers, two operating systems (WINDOW XP and OS X), and two USB cables. So I'm definitely sure it's not my system, which leads me to think I also got a LEMON! Now I am on the phone yet again, actually am being put on hold for the millionth time. I wonder if michlexi, or anyone with the same problem, was able to find resolution??

IPod cannot be synced the required disc cannot be found

Hello i dont know if someone already posted about this, i couldnt find something like it.
My iPod is a Shuffle first generation
When i connect my ipod to my computer it detects its as normal (Driver F or G), then itunes opens and then says "ipod has been succesfully synced" as it always does, but now when i try to put a song in it it stays for like 5 minutes with "Syncing iPod do not disconnect" after those 5 minutes a message appears:
"The iPod "IPOD" cannot be synced. The required disc cannot be found."
I tried restoring it but i couldnt it said something about error in iPod so it erased all files in the iPod including the ones in iPod control hidden folder. The weird thing is that i connected it to 5 iMacs from my school and there iTunes had no problem syncing music to my iPod and i could listen to it and everything but when i returned home the old problem came back, i dont want to go to my school to sync my iPod everytime i want to erase or put another song in it.
Please i need to solve this ive had my iPod for 1 1/2 years and it worked perfect until recently and i live in mexico i cant order a replacement or anything. i think this happened after an itunes upgrade i think it was 7.4, my ipod has the latest version for ipod shuffle first generation 7.5

I have the same problems with 2 different ipod shuffles (1 is a 1st Generation, the other a 2nd generation). I have tried them on several different PCs with the same error. I followed the apple document listed in this disussion an none of the solutions work for me. I ended up using the Apple reset tool to get them working, only to have the problem come back when I trying syncing with pcs that have I-Tunes 7.3.x or 7.4.x. After resetting it again, I found a PC that hadn't been updated for a while and had I-Tunes 7.1.x. That worked as I expected and I was able to sync multiple times without any issues. I would be willing to go back to that version except the I-tunes backup I have is 6 months old and missing alot of music purchased since then and the current libraries don't work on the older version. Any suggestion on what is going on with the 7.3 and 7.4 versions of I-Tunes and the shuffles and how I can resolve the problem?

Cannot be synced the required disc cannot be found

ok so i read through 10 pages of threads to see if someone else has the same problem before posting, i had itunes installed before i had an ipod as i used it for work, i have about seven hundred songs in my library, although most of them are in another folder for work, when i got a 1G nano for xmas i tried to sync it, so because there were so many songs it took a selection and made a playlist that i cant remember what it was called, all the songsi wanted in my ipod were not there, my sister deleted the playlist saying all i needed to do was tick the boxes i wanted in the ipod, so i unticed the 700 songs and only kept the ones i wanted, but when i tried to sync it, it cleared the ipod and gave me the message, the ipod my ipod cannot be synced the required disk cannot be found, i put in the set up disc but that never did anything, i pressed on sync and it came up "playlist no longer exists, so is it because my sister deleted the playlist that they set up, is it a smart one? if so how do i get it back and then how do i get the songs i want on my ipod, i have spent all day trying to uninstal and instal etc, sorry it's long but i dont know what to do! please help

Hi jonathanisonline,
This error message seems to have its root in digtal signing issues for PCs. Try the Solution recommended in this article, and see if you have any sort of success with that error you are having:
iTunes displays a -50 error when syncing iPod on Windows XP
Also, the general advice from here might be worth a try, as well:
"Disk cannot be read from or written to" when syncing iPod
-Kylene

Can't add photos to iPod nano, folder "Unknown" cannot be found.

when I try to sync photos to my nano, it says it fails because the folder "Unknown" cannot be found... can anyone help me with that?
Windows XP

Hi TheConeZone!
I would suggest that you try doing this:
Connect your iPod to your computer, and click on it in the Source List of iTunes.
Go to the "Photos" tab.
Here, deselect the "Sync" option for the photos.
Click "Apply" in the bottom-right corner to save your changes.
Then, disconnect your iPod from your comptuer when the sync is complete.
Now, let's try searching for any corrupt "iPod Photo Cache" folders that might be laying around:
1 - Go to "START > Search".
2 - Select "All files and folders", and make sure that you are searching over your entire hard drive.
3 - Then, type "ipod photo cache" in the blank, and click "Search" to begin searching.
4 - When the search is complete, delete any "iPod Photo Cache" folders that you may find on your computer.
After you've done that, connect your iPod to your computer, and now select "Sync" with your photos, and select the folder that you want to sync to your iPod.
Click Apply to save your changes.
Then, if needed, select "Sync iPod" from the File menu in iTunes, to update your iPod with the changes you have just made.
After trying that, can you sucessfully transfer your photos to your iPod, or not?
-Kylene

IPod Nano sync snag - "cannot be updated, required folder cannot be found"

Whenever I try to sync my iPod Nano (2nd Gen) I get the error message "the iPod cannot be updated. The required folder cannot be found". Have had this problem since I bought it!
Am running latest s/w versions (reloaded iTunes v. 7.1.1.5 twice, and iPod is running s/w v. 1.1.2).
iTunes on my computer (running Windows XP Pro) play fine from the desktop. VERY frustrating!!!
Windows XP Pro iPod Nano 2nd Gen

I am suddently having the same problem with a similar message. I've tried syncing to both my nano and my suffle and I get the message "Cannot be synced, the required disc space is not sufficient. I've emptied both appliances and still get that message when I try to sync. Even something as small as a single song.

I pluged in my iPod nano 6th generation and it says "The iPOd cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (13019)"

I pluged in my iPod nano 6th generation and i says "The iPOd cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (13019)" It synces like 20 songs out of 1117 songs and I tried almost everything I know to get it to synce. I restarted my computer, reset iPod and got the newest version. So please help!

Hello Renee116,
The fix you are looking for is found here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15028503#15028503
Hope this helps.
~Julian

My new ipod nano does not sync the ipod name cannot be synced the required disk cannot be found

my new ipod nano does not sync the ipod name cannot be synced the required disk cannot be found

Wow .... so you are syncing via WiFi when you sync .... would that be correct?
I would still quit iTunes and then restart and see what happens. The iPad and iTunes must be playing some weird games.
If you do sync via WiFi (I do), I think you are better off closing iTunes when you are done - unless of course you are using iTunes for Home Sharing or something like that. My experience is that if you leave iTunes running, the iPad and iTunes just start sending weird signals back and forth.
Since I started Wifi syncing, I have seen messages in iTunes that made absolutely no sense at all. Anyway, that's my take on it. If you do not WiFi sync, then I have no clue why you are getting these messages.

"ipod cannot be synced the required file is lock"What the ****!

Itunes just keep popping up"Ipod cannot be synced the required file is lock"
but I got nothing to sync in my library, the whole library is empty ,no music , pictures , movie , podcasts , Nothing. I only listen music from my ipod ,not from the actual laptop hard disk.So what's the problem.This is getting really annoying.Help me please
Also I have reinstall Itunes for 7 times.

IF UR USING WINDOWS)
try this
go to my computer,
click on the disk drive of ur iPod, (e.g: f:Administrator)
some folders here are hidden so you must unhide them first
go to the folder options, then view tab, then look for show hidden files and folders...
after you done that... right click the iPod_Control then if the read Only is checked, unchecked it... or if its highlighted, unhighlighted it...
that works on me... so try it...

My iTunes doesn't sync ALL of my music to my iPod, saying "the required disc cannot be found"

When I sync my iPod, only about half of my music syncs and a message comes up saying "the required disc cannot be found"
Please help me!!!
Thankyou so so much

Deleting the iPod Photo Cache folder usually resolves the problem. For its location see:
iTunes: Understanding the iPod Photo Cache folder

IPod Touch "cannot be synced. The required disc cannot be found."

Yesterday, I bought 3 CD's (yep, the physical kind) and today I ripped them into iTunes on my 24" iMac (with my usual custom settings, 256kbps, stereo, 44,100 KHz, with error correction on). I had synced my iPod Touch earlier this morning. Then I went to sync my iPod Touch (2nd gen., 32GB) to get the new albums onto it (it had about 3GB of space, so shouldn't have been a problem, I thought).
However, my iPT and/or iTunes (10.3.1) started getting flaky on me. I got most of the way through syncing, but when iTunes starts transferring my Music back onto the iPT, after several tracks had been transferred to the iPT, I get a message "The iPod "[iPod's Name Here]" cannot by synced. The required disc cannot be found. When I click on the OK, iTunes shows "Finishing Sync" and then says OK to Disconnect. (?) So I try it again (several times) - some times I notice that the iPod's screen shows "Sync in Progress" even after the error message appears and I get the OK to Disconnect message after that - ? - and another time, the iPod screen (partway through syncing the music, but after syncing the apps) just goes to the charging icon with no message about syncing. I tried restarting the iPT with the 'silver' Apple logo and all - still getting errors. After some of the problems, I disconnected the USB cable from my iMac and tried unlocking the iPT's screen with my password, and then things looked sort okay - except none of the new songs show up in the Music part of my iPT.
Thinking the iPT's timing out on me, or maybe has a bad cable, I switch to a newer cable I got, but I'm still having same kinds of problems and cannot get the new albums onto the iPT. By the way, the songs play fine within iTunes, so no indication that they are garbled or such.
It's beginning to feel like my iPod Touch and/or iTunes are ptiching a fit because I didn't buy these albums from the iTMS. Verrrrrry frustrating!
Jim R.

Are you also syncing photos? If yes, try to delete the photo cache folder, explained in this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314
If this does not help, see this article for more suggestions: "Disk cannot be read from or written to" when syncing iPod or "Firmware update failure" error when updating or restoring iPod

The ipod "alex" cannot be synced. the required file cannot be found.

when i plug my ipod into my computer my itunes freezes. when i unplug my ipod from my computer the itunes unfreezes and gives me the message "the ipod "alex" cannot be synced. the required file cannot be found." ive uninstalled and reinstalled itunes several times and i have the latest version.

that guy is wrong, i have the same problem, but its not the i pods fault, i plug my i pod back into a friends i tunes and it works fine so the problem my friend in your computer same as me... how ever i dont know how to fix it, just dont spend ur money trying to get some nerd at a store to do it for you, he only just make it worse

HT1351 I have an ipod nano synced to an old laptop. Recently upgraded to a new laptop and want to sync the ipod to the new laptop. How do I sync to the new computer?

I have an ipod nano synced to an old laptop. Recently upgraded to a new laptop and want to sync the ipod nano to the new laptop. How do I change the sync to the new laptop?

If you have access to your old laptop (and it's still working), ideally, you should transfer your complete iTunes library from your old PC to your new PC. If you can and want to do it that way, please post back.
Otherwise, iTunes syncing is generally in one direction, from iTunes library to iPod. You cannot use iTunes to transfer song files from iPod to computer (except for songs purchased from the iTunes Store). However, there are third-party methods and utilities that can transfer from iPod to computer. If you do an Internet search on something like "ipod transfer," you should get some links. (The CNET article seems to be popular.)
Once the song files are on your computer's drive, you can add them to your new iTunes library.

IPOD CANNOT BE SYNCED, THE REQUIRED FOLDER CANNOT BE FOUND

ok ive had my ipod for months, i love it. but i accidently plugged it into my sisters account on the computer and it went a bit freaked out. after months of attempts i got it to sync somehow about a month ago. now all it says is 'ipod could not be synced, the required folder could not be found.' i need help, i have tried everything! if anyone has any suggestions please please help my i am so upset and angry that it wont work and i would be so gratful.

I was running into the same problem, but I was playing something on one of my playlists at the time I was trying to sync. I stopped the playlist, tried again, and it worked for me. However, I have the feeling your situation's a bit different than mine.

IPod nano sync problem "Cannot be synced,the required disc cannot be found"

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