Extremely Slow Sync on Windows 7

Hello
I recently installed Windows 7 on my system. Before that I had Vista and before that I had XP, both systems synced really quickly with no problems.
Now that im on Windows 7, iTunes is syncing music to my iPod touch very slowly. Iv posted this on other forums and tried removing and installing all traces of apple software and iv tried disabling backup. Nothing is working.
Please help, im starting to really get annoyed with this.

iTunes itself was running extremely slow on my computer. I would click a song to play and it'd take several seconds to register the click.
It wasn't an issue with the computer, as it is a new i7 (quad-core/hyperthreading)computer with 16gbs of ram and running Windows 7. Following advice from elsewhere, I tried running iTunes 'as an administrator'.. and it sped up considerably.
To run as administrator:
* Right-click iTunes icon
* Select 'Properties'
* Click 'Compatibility' tab
* Check 'Run this program as an administrator'
* Click 'ok'.
A side note, running as administrator will cause you to click 'ok' on the UAC notice when you first run the program. To me, this was preferably to the program running so slow.

Similar Messages

Extremely slow speeds on Windows Computers with 5th Generation AirPort Extreme

I just got a new refurbished AirPort Extreme 5th generation. Everything works great for all of my OS X devices and iOS Devices. I am getting my ISPs speeds when doing tests. The issue is when I am using Windows devices. My roommate has a desktop and a netbook and both are getting extremely slow speeds. Speeds like .07Mbps down. Does anyone have any idea what the issue might be?

You have no large file?? Really.. in the whole computer there is not a windows update file.. a backup file... a movie download file.. nothing.. ??
Anyway that is irrelevant.. the issue is wireless.
Download the latest drivers from the wireless manufacturer.
You will need to find out what wireless card is used and locate the correct download for that model.
On the Airport it is well worth doing the following tests.
1. Change the name to SMB standard.. short no spaces pure alphanumeric.
So if your wireless name is Fred Blog's Airport Extreme wireless
Plesae change it to AEwifi
2. Take off all security for a test.
3. Set channels.. I am guessing the computers are only using 2.4ghz, so set 11,6, 1 in that order.
No improvement.. just put the security back to WPA2 Personal with pure alphanumeric password..
Try and test new drivers and use no firewalls on the computer.. ensure that the computer is correctly set for home network.
Beyond that it is just incompatible.

Extreme slow syncing & huge backup folder

The problem I'm having is 2-fold: 1. My 3GS syncs extremely slow; approx. 12 hrs.! And 2.: If I check the backup folder in home/library/applicationsupport/MobileSync, it's huge: over 1 Gig. Allthough I have ~ 11 Gigs on the phone, I don't understand this size. Shouldn't it be no more than a couple of megs? If I'm correct, the backup folder only contains info about the apps and other content that's on the phone. The apps are in iTunes/Mobile Applications. I have no explanation for this problem, tried deleting de backup folder and fresh syncing, but to no effect. Can anyone help out? Thanks in advance! Patrick

This link provides the data included with your iPhone's backup, which includes photos and/or video in your iPhone's Camera Roll, contact info, various iPhone settings, recent calls, call favorites, SMS/MMS, Safari history/cache/cookies, email account settings, wi-fi network settings, 3rd party app settings and data created and stored by a 3rd party app.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3603
Something may be wrong with your backup or with some of the data included with the backup since it shouldn't take 12 hours or anywhere close to that. My iPhone's backup takes well less than 5 minutes. You can delete the existing backup and create a new backup to see if this makes any difference. An initial new backup will take longer that succeeding backups.

Blackberry desktop for Mac and Bold 9900 - extremely slow syncing?

Is it just me or does it take forever just to sync a few changes to photos or music to my Bold 9900 using the Blackberry desktop on mac? Ok granted the first time I added over 1000 songs, several playlists and about 40 photos from iPhoto via the sync software, it took over 3 hrs to sync. Personally I find that extremely slow, especially when comparing to my ipad or iphone and itunes syncing. Today I wanted just to remove one photo album from my phone, so unticked it and resynced again. Over half an hour before it finished! The registering media with device step takes a very long time, as does the initial preparation stage...... surely there must be something wrong?
Without the wifi sync feature i can't imagine it being practical just to add one song to my phone through this software before popping out with the phone in the car.... I would need to give myself over 30 minutes in advance.
Any advice or help most appreciated.
Thanks
Simon

Hey midinotes,
Welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community Forums.
It can take quite awhile to synchronize media to your BlackBerry. Especially with the songs, 1000 songs it is normal to take a few hours.
The easiest way I add music to my BlackBerry is dragging the media files to the media card. It's a lot quicker.
-ViciousFerret
Come follow your BlackBerry Technical Team on Twitter! @BlackBerryHelp
Be sure to click Like! for those who have helped you.
Click Accept as Solution for posts that have solved your issue(s)!

Apple TV and/or Airport extremely slow syncing - Unique or common problem?

This is my first post and I'd appreciate help.
My Apple TV has worked fine for the last few weeks but started playing up last weekend. It now syncs either very slowly or not at all. Have tried every workaround suggested in this forum. Also spent 3 hours on phone with Apple technician this morning who could not diagnose problem (but has gone away to consult internally).
Apple TV is (was) connected wirelessly to Airport Extreme which is connected via ethernet cable to iMac, with all the latest software installed on everything.
Factory resets of both Apple TV and Airport Extreme worked for a bit, then same problem re-emerged. Direct ethernet connection of Apple TV to Airport Extreme also worked for a bit, but then same problem appeared, and then Apple TV disappeared from Devices list in iTunes and could not be recovered even after reboot. Direct connection to iMac also worked initially, but then same problem (slow syncing, then disappears from Devices list) re-emerged. Can see Apple TV in Devices in iTunes if wireless connection is restored, but only with extraordinarily slow syncing.
Anyone know what the problem might be? Is it unique or common? Any suggestions for fixes?
iMac 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.10) Airport Extreme, Apple TV

By current release software I was referring to the AEBS firmware, the Apple TV software and iTunes. You can run the "Check for Updates" tool for each to make sure that they are up to date.
Since you reported the same problem when connected either by Ethernet cable or by wireless that would obviously rule out any wireless problems such as RF interference. The only possibilities left would be that something else is loading down your network or there is a hardware failure somewhere.
If there is a bad component in the AEBS I would expect it to affect your computer as well as the Apple TV. If there is a hardware failure in the Apple TV I would expect it to show up whether syncing, streaming or watching movie trailers or YouTube videos.
One other possibility might be that if you have any anti-virus software on your computer it might slow things down if it is scanning the files while they are syncing or streaming.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9) The more I think, the more I think I shouldn't think more.

Extremely slow sync after upgrading to iPhone2.0

Even since I upgrade the iPhone to 2.0 firmwire, each sync is extremely slow. It would say "backing up iPhone" for like 15 minutes before real syncing starts.
What did I do wrong that would cause this lengthy backup? How can I avoid that in the future?

I restored my phone over the weekend. The sync returned to normal when I turned the Apps sync off.
I experimented with the phone by turning on a few Apps syncing. When I sync the first time, it went okay. Then without changing any apps, I made a few changes in the address book, sync'ed again, it was getting slower, made a few more changes in the address book, sync'ed again, the sync time kept growing. I didn't time it, but felt like each sync is doubled.
Since the sync now takes hours after a few syncs from a restore, I am quite sure it will reach the 12+ hour sync I experienced before the restore. The sync is taking so long that it is almost impossible to try things out to see a pattern.
But based on someone's observations, the problem is related to Apps Sync.
And it is doubling after each sync. So within days, your iPhone is render inoperable. So my advice is don't touch the Apps Store with a 10 foot pole until Apple gives an answer on what is going on.

Finder is extremely slow looking on windows servers

We have just setup 8 new Imac7.1 core 2 Duo intel 2.4Ghz with 2G of RAM. They are sitting on a windows based network and are added to our Domain. When a user uses the "find" feature and searches by filename on the windows file server, results can take up to 15 minutes. the users are drilling down a few folders to narrow the search a little. I have a windows XP machine on the same subnet and sitting in the same area as the Macs. I can search the same volume in about 1 minute or less look for the same file name. From the Macs, they can browse the same server and it is blazing fast. We have all the Macs on a gig network. The internet is fast and you can browse the servers fast. It is just the "find" feature that is so slow. Is there anything that can be done to speed this up. A service that needs to be running or shut off?

You have no large file?? Really.. in the whole computer there is not a windows update file.. a backup file... a movie download file.. nothing.. ??
Anyway that is irrelevant.. the issue is wireless.
Download the latest drivers from the wireless manufacturer.
You will need to find out what wireless card is used and locate the correct download for that model.
On the Airport it is well worth doing the following tests.
1. Change the name to SMB standard.. short no spaces pure alphanumeric.
So if your wireless name is Fred Blog's Airport Extreme wireless
Plesae change it to AEwifi
2. Take off all security for a test.
3. Set channels.. I am guessing the computers are only using 2.4ghz, so set 11,6, 1 in that order.
No improvement.. just put the security back to WPA2 Personal with pure alphanumeric password..
Try and test new drivers and use no firewalls on the computer.. ensure that the computer is correctly set for home network.
Beyond that it is just incompatible.

Slow sync to Windows 7

I have an iPod Classic and since setting up my PC with Windows 7, I've found it's probably 10x slower to sync than it was with Windows XP. It does sync successfully, I can transfer songs and videos, etc. Everything works - it's just greatly slower.
OS is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
All Windows updates are current
I'm running the latest version of iTunes (9.1.1).
The PC has more than enough horsepower (quadcore, 8GB RAM, etc.)
My iPod says it's software is 2.0.1.
Under Windows XP, if there were no major changes (new songs, videos, etc.), the sync time was a couple minutes at most, often faster.
Under Windows 7 Pro, it's often 10+ minutes.
Any ideas?

Upon looking it up, it appears my iPod is a 5th generation, if that matters.

Extremely slow sync for iPhone4 with up-to-date iOS

Windows XP, plenty of memory, all itunes and iphone software up-to-date. Sudden decline in syncing speed has become rediculous. It takes 60 plus hours to sync music of 27GB. If a reinstall causes an automatic sync, I lose my access to all the content of my phone nearly instantly, and have to reset, and resync full conent. CRAZY! I may switch to Galaxy phones if this keeps up.
Please help. I am not syncing photos, calenders are not a problem, contacts seem to duplicate occasionally without predictability.

Terence Devlin wrote:
No, Apple are not trying to force every user to the Cloud, in fact it would be even slower if you did. That message seems to refer to some HP help files and does not appear to be relevant to the issue you're seeing.
The most likely explanation is that iPhoto is recreating the Photo cache for the phone. It only sync images optimised for the phone screen.
When is the last time you actually added all these photos to the phone? This
I am used to seeing the numbers count up so fast they are almost blurry: syncing image 565 of 8654, 566, 567.
doesn't sound like the files are being copied, but rather than they are being checked.

Apple tv - extremely slow syncing

I have a disk containing my itunes library connected to an airport extreme , and am syncing my library to my apple tv. My computer is 802.11n compatable (macbook) , my airport is 802.11n compatible and supposedly the apple tv is 802.11n compatible too.
When transfering files from my wireless disk it takes around 2 minutes to transfer a gigabyte of data , but when syncing the apple tv , a movie the size of 2 gb takes a few hours. I´ve tried running diagnostics on the apple tv and it says everything is ok , I´ve tried various fiddling with the settings in the airport with no luck . . .
Is this normal ?
Anyone got a clue what might be wrong ?
thanx

I don't consider my solution as the silver bullet as most of us treat the disease from looking at the symptom instead of the root cause and for a given symptom there can be many ailments. Here is what I did...
I replaced my Linksys router with a new Apple Airport Extreme router (simultaneous dual band) which is an expensive toy. The problem went away. It looks like that the wifi link from my mac mini to the router was unreliable and actual throughput was slow even though the wifi connection between my ATV and the router was strong (as they were close to each other). To support this idea, I found that my ATV never had any issue downloading movies from iTunes server online. My problem used to be playing my own home videos from my mac mini over wifi streaming.
One easy way to test this contention would be to connect the mac mini to the router using wired LAN. But, in my case I would have to run over 100ft of cable thru multiple rooms and I wasn't motivated to experiment with that test.

IPhone 3GS extremely slow sync

Hi,
I've got a 32Gb 3GS and I performed a restore yesterday. It's now still doing a sync some 24 hours later and it's still only synced about 13Gb worth of stuff with another 13Gb to go. Is it this slow for anyone else??

Chrisanewman wrote:
Hi,
I've got a 32Gb 3GS and I performed a restore yesterday. It's now still doing a sync some 24 hours later and it's still only synced about 13Gb worth of stuff with another 13Gb to go. Is it this slow for anyone else??
Wow that's a lot of data/media to sync at one time.
Are you connected to one of the USB ports on the back of the computer? or are you connected via a Hub?
If you are using a USB 1.0 port/hub, it will take a long time to move the data.
Sometimes you can experience slow transfer issues when using any Hub, even the USB ports on the front of the computer.

Extremely Slow Syncing

I'm at a loss as to why my ATV is syncing so slow: at a rate of one song per 45 to 90 seconds (at 256 kps AAC encoding). It does not always drag like this; usually each song takes less that 2 seconds.
My set up is all 802.11n and transmit rate consistently indicates 130.
Chime in with your wise thoughts about this.

reboot your router and reboot you appleTV (press on hold "Menu" and "-"/down button on remote, wait for menu to appear and click on "restart")
oh and 130 what? M B /s, M b /s
are you using 5GHz or 2.4GHz... if 5GHz do you have wide channels turned on (need 2.0.2 to use wide channels.. there was a bug in 2.0.1).. 5GHz with wide channels is the fastest with the least potential interference from other wireless devices but if your appleTV is separated by lots of walls or very far way.. especially bad is on different floors you may have some issues as 5GHz doesn't have the range of 2.4GHz
Message was edited by: tmartine

Extremely slow sync, locking up computer, new 80G Video iPod

When I plug it into the computer, everything slows down. Sometimes get the message "can't connect to Store perform desired operation" (or some such verbiage)
Tried all the usual tricks I could think of.
Never had this problem with my old 3rd gen iPod.
I am on a Windows XP computer, tried renaming it as a different letter hard drive, tried re-booting computer, tried unplugging & starting over a dozen times.
5th Gen Video iPod 80 G Windows XP 3rd iPod on this machine

with itunes 7, the ipod gets its software updated when itunes connects to apple and downloads the update and updates your ipod. right now the servers are being hit hard and are so busy that you get messages like the ones you are getting. my suggestion is to try setting up the ipod late at night when there is not so much trafic requests for these servers

Extremely slow sync from iTunes to iPhone 5

It's taking HOURS (>10 hours so far) to sync my new iPhone 5 to iTunes 10.7. The process is stalled at "Step 5 of 5 Waiting for items to copy". I am manually managing content on the phone, and I had a small fraction of my total iTunes content on my iPhone 4 that was deactivated yesterday when my new iPhone 5 became active. I've tried a restore on the new iPhone 5, shutdown/restart of the computer (new Mac Mini running 10.8.2), hard reset of the iPhone 5, ejecting and reconnecting the iPhone 5. I'm using the same AppleID as before.
I've got many greyed-out songs on my iPhone 5. It appears that all the songs that were on my iPhone 4 have been or are in the process of being moved to my iPhone 5. The greyed out songs have the double-arrow circular icon next to them on the left side, but the icon isn't moving.
The topline message at Step 5 of 5 has changed - now it reads "Syncing Genius Data to Bob's iPhone". So smething seems to be happening and the process isn't stalled, but it's taking way too long!
I called Apple Support, and they blame iTunes and had me contact them. I'm not very satisfied with this, as it doesn't really explain the very long time the sync has taken.
Ideas on how to fix this and keep it from happening again would be appreciated. Is this a one-time thing or will I be faced with this every time I connect to iTunes?

I had a very similar problem when syncing my iPhone 5 with iTunes 10.7.
Here's what I did to fix it after spending a whole afternoon reading what others have done:
- Perform a soft reset on your iPhone by holding down the home key and the power off button until your phone restarts
- Turn off Airport wifi on your Mac
- Restart your Mac
- Turn Airport wifi back on
Now, try to sync your iPhone. iTunes should immediately see your iPhone and sync very quickly.
It works for me. Just don't ask me why or how it works.
Good luck!

Satelltie L855-s5155 freeze at login screen or was extremely slow - now need windows 8or 8.1

    I purchased this laptop about a year and half ago. I have used it a total of 5 times. It mainly remains in the laptop back int he closet.
Model L855-S5155
Serial Number: XXXXXXXXX
    I turned it on last week and it booted up to the login screen. I typed my password in and nothing happened. The cursor was flashing in the password field but when I typed my password, the cursor moved two spaces and remained there for a couple of hours at which time I had to turn it off by holding the power button for 5 seconds. I repeated this process several times. At one time it took my password and the dots started going in circles to I guess load the live tiles. I left that go for about 4 hours at which time I turned it off again.
    Upon turning it on I did get an error message on a bably blue screen that stated 'Windows was not shutdown properly' and it restarted. At the Toshiba splash screen the dots going in a circle showing that something was loading so I left that go for about 6 hours while it remained still at that screen.
    At one point I had gotten the maintenance screen upon boot up so I tried a system restore. That didn't work. Same issues. Unfortunatley I hadn't made a restore / recovery disk which I guess being Toshiba that should have been my first task.   As I reviewed the boards I found that the system never shuts down and at the current situation I was in not being able to login to Windows I had to resort to removing the battery for a minute and restarting the laptop to get to certain areas.
    I attmepted to reset the PC from the maintenance screen in hopes that would fix the problem. I had upgraded from windows 8 to 8.1, but it was working after the upgrade so I didn't worry about it. Unfortunatley that didn't work. When it restarted it remained on the Toshiba slpash screen for 10 hours with the dots going around in a circle. Knowing some processes take a little time, I have been leaving the laptop on for a while to make sure certain processes have time to finish but 10 hours to me might have been too long after a recovery.   Everytime I turn on the laptop the Toshibal splash screen would come up and the dots would go around in circles. I left it go over night one night to see if there was some process that needs longer to run, but no.
    Being that I purchased my laptop with windows 8, I would like to have windows 8 on it. Unfortunately I need to laptop for a project so I decided maybe I should put windows 7 on the computer just to get t running so upon restarting the laptop and getting the BIOS screen there was screen that came up that would delete all partitions. I guess and HDD Recovery. Now that I have run that of course I have, what I think, may be a clean hard disk to start from.
    Something I did notice when I began to install windows 7 is that my 750 gb hard drive only shows 698 gb of free space. Being that there aren't any disk maintenance tools to let me know if there are bad sectors due to a possibly bad hard disk or is the windows 8 image still hiding on there. Doubtful if the partitions were removed.
    Can anyone tell me what happened? Is there anyway to get windows 8 back onto the laptop without buying it again? Any assistance would be greatfully accepted.
[Moderator edit to remove serial number.]

Satellite L855-S5155
If no recovery media was created, you can obtain it from Toshiba. Scroll down to Get Recovery Media here.
For instructions, see the section Restoring from recovery media, which begins on p. 57 of the User's Guide.
   Satellite/Satellite Pro C800/L800/S800 Series User’s Guide
When you upgrade to Windows 8.1, be sure to follow these instructions.
   How to Update from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1
-Jerry

Extremely Slow Sync on Windows 7

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for