Applications sync back to itunes

I downloaded some free applications from my ipod touch using the app store and I also bought one, but when I sync my ipod to itunes the applications that I downloaded from my ipod touch do not appear in the applications library in itunes. The only applications that appear in itunes are the ones I downloaded from itunes and not the ones I downloaded from my ipod touch. What should I do to make them appear and transferred into itunes?

Try manually transferring the apps back to iTunes instead of iTunes doing it automatically.
Go to File > Transfer Purchases from iPod and this should cure the problem.

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Hi,
I am have been having this problem. Whatever apps I purchase or update on my iOS devices, they do not sync back to iTunes. There is no error message. They just don't sync back. On a quick search, I have seen that some other people have faced the same issue but I haven't seen any solution so far.
Here is what I am using -
iTunes 11 on Mac OS X 10.8.2, iPhone 4S with iOS 6, iPad 3 with iOS 5.

Here is how to transfer apps from iphone to iTunes.
Step 1:
First, you need to “Sign In” with Apple ID that you’ve used when downloading the applications from your iPhone. For this, go to “Store” menu entry in iTunes, and choose “Sign in” option.
Step 2:
Now, you will need to authorize your computer unless iTunes won’t let you transfer your iPhone applications.
Step 3:
Right click on the name of your iPhone in the left hand explorer bar of iTunes and select “Transfer Purchases” option. If you use multiple accounts to buy apps on your iPhone, then you will have to repeat these first two steps with each iTunes account.
Step 4.
You can use iPhone Transfer to transfer app from iPhone to iTunes.

HT1766 4 voice memos in iTunes backup from iPhone had ! marks and would not play so I deleted them and although they are still on the iPhone, they will not sync back to iTunes from iPhone.

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You may have to try deleting all the music from your phone (by going to Settings>General>Usage>Music, swipping All Music and tapping Delete), then sync it all back on with iTunes in order to fix this.

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It is working now:
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It was VERY difficut, but I finally did it!
First I was annoyed because I couldn't get the PDFs to show in my iTunes Library. As near as I can tell, performing a backup of my iPad did that. In the past 'Transfer Purchases' did the job.
What nearly drove me bonkers was getting the content of my iBooks Library to sync to the device. There was just no way to do it. Not my PDFs and not even the purchased books! I tried to get the Library on the left and my iPad on the right so I could drag and drop. NOPE.
I played around a while and finally got both to show on the screen so I could drag and drop. STUPID
What I think worked for me: I started in Music Library and clicked on the +Add to icon on the top right. This pulled up my iPad for drag and drop. Then I switched the button on the top left from 'music' to 'books'. Finally I could remove or add my content to iBooks.
It worked perfectly before, why did they change it!
The music App makes me drag and drop, which I never had to do before. All I had to do was check or uncheck songs in a playlist and sync the playlist.
Apps works fine, no complaints.
Podcasts, another fine mess...
I noticed Video was fixed when I went back in.
Oh, the kicker, my iTunes is not responding today.

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Strange things happening here...
At some point I bought a song on my apple tv. When syncing to itunes, I got a message saying the song could not be synced (i guess it was corrupt, but I checked "don't show this message again", so I can't reproduce the error message).
Now, every time I start itunes, it tries to sync with atv, but always tries to sync the corrupt file and fails.
Not too big of a problem, but somehow the atv doesn't sync back to itunes at all, since the 10 other songs I bought since then, seem to have the same problem of not syncing back to itunes, although itunes seems to try and sync for approx. 45 secs or so...
Now, a few questions :
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2) How can I delete the 1 song that started all this trouble from atv ?
3) In the worst case scenario, how do I format the atv, so I can start from scratch again?
Thanks

OK, just posting this because it might help others...
This afternoon, I got ready to call the local apple support, and with the phone in my hand I started up itunes.
And you won't believe this, but it synced beautyfully, in both directions ...
What the * ?
There has only been 1 change on my mac, and that's the installation of the latest security update !!!
So my calculated guess would be, that the last security update closed certain ports, that atv needs to sync back to itunes, and that this security update opened those ports again...
I can only hope the next update won't f*ck things up again.
Anyway, my problem is solved, and I hope a lot of others out there are fine too after installing the 2009-001 security update.

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Hi there,
just got the new 80GB iPod and have a problem when I sync my iPod back with iTunes. iTunes seems to load new media on it (pictures, music etc.) but sometimes 'drops' everything I did on my iPod since the last sync. I was very disappointed as I just rated about 60 songs and when I plugged it back in, iTunes told me I had not played any songs in the past two days and none of the ratings were transfered to iTunes on my Mac. The iPod did NOT run our of battery and I did NOT change the ID3-Tags in iTunes of all the songs before syncing again.
On my past iPods I noticed that songs that have been changed in iTunes will not get the ratings of the iPod but I never experienced the complete "ignorance" of me listening to any music on my iPod.
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Hi,
I had exactly this issue. It seems apple is not altogether consistent with regards to this. I phone tech support, and they assured me it was a content issue, as purchases made on the appletv in any content besides hdtv would not be synced back to the itunes library on your computer. However, in talking to the itunes support, they assured me this was an appletv issue.
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Moral of the story is I think, dont purchase shows in standard def in appletv, only purchase through itunes.
Hopefully they will get this sorted out in the next few days, if they update appletv at Macworld, although if its a rights issue, perhaps it wont be that simple.

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AGAgnone wrote:
Thanks. But, if it appears everyday it seems that there is a bigger issue. Plus, in my case, it didn't appear until after iTunes pushed the last update.
that doesn't mean there is an issue necessarily. not every person has the problem for the same reasons.
Do you know if Apple is doing anything to fix this or do I need to manually hard boot all my equipment every time there is an issue?
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