Can't access iPhone on PC.

Hi
Posting this for a friend who says he used be able to hook his iPhone into his PC and it automatically aloowwed him to access picture, music, ect. He says it plain doesnt do that anymore.
So I figure Id post here to see if anyone might be able to offer advice on what to look for?

You cannot directly access the content unless you have the Manually Manage... box checked on the summary tab. Even then, note that by design the iPhone syncs iTunes-managed content with _one and only one computer_. So, if you turn on syncing on a computer you don't normally use for syncing that iPhone, all the content on the phone will be erased and replaced by content from the current computer.
So, to get the audiobook on your iPhone without buying it again, use a flash drive, etc., to move the file to the computer you normally sync with, then sync the phone to that computer.

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