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Hi,
So I've had my ipad mini for almost 2 years and it has worked brilliantly until lately.
I've been uploading videos via itunes to my ipad and it shows up under Videos -> Home Videos.
So, most of the time I can just add new videos in and have no issues but lately I keep having this issue.
I will drag some videos from itunes into ipad but when i pop into my ipad section, it shows that the videos are not sync'ed in.
Then i will click sync and the next thing i know is, the memory bar at the bottom would indicate e.g. from initially 9GB of free space to 20GB of free space.
When I go to my physical ipad to access the videos, the "Home Video" option isn't even there. But the videos on itunes, on the ipad section still indicates they are there.
I've tried sync'ing again.
I've tried deleting all the videos and drag them back in and sync'ing but it doesn't work. The "Home Video" just doesn't come back.
My only solution so far has been to restore Ipad. Which literally erases all my data and sets it back to a completely new Ipad.
Depending on time and date of my backup sometimes restoring to backup date may or may not work.
Any idea what's the problem and how i can resolve this?
Help is very, very much appreciated.
Thank you.

Hi Alfred, very curious update.
As I have said I have some home movies stored under Movies >Home Videos and yesterday I was talking with my duaghter-in-law about whether it would be possible to share this with her Ipad but couldn't come up with anyway to do that. I looked at Dropbox and Instashare but they don't, as far as I can see, allow me to access my home videos, they only seem to work with camera roll and purchased movies.
Anyway, this morning I was messing about with the Ipad Movies>Home Videos page nd by chance I touched the heading where my original 4 videos are displayed and suddenly the USA video appeared (nearly fell off my chair) and it worked OK. The date is shown as 23rd March 2014.
Back stepped and tried it a couple of times and it was OK. It would seem that the Ipad has stored the original 4 videos on one page and the USA one on another. The original 4 don't show any video content i.e the opening screen just a grayed box with a move film icon and the title whereas the USA video on the second page shows the opening screen shot.
It isn't possible to drag from one page to another I have to click the Home Videos title at the top of the page to move from one set to another.
It's great news I have my video after all but any clues as to what's happening? I would have thought it would fill the first page before going to a second. Is the clue perhaps in the way one set don't have the opening screen and the USA one does?
Also, any suggestions as to how I can share these with my daughter-in-law?

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